Let It Settle

A safe place of calm, reflection, and healing as you navigate through life's challenges and find your way home to yourself. In Let It Settle, veteran professional coach and mindfulness leader Michael Galyon delivers a calm space you can call upon when faced with moments of unrest and overwhelm. The book offers insights into your experiences and emotions that confirm you do not face life alone and provides you with tools and guided meditations you can use to navigate through your experiences to a centered space from which healing is possible. In the book, you'll find a series of consequential moments that commonly induce stress, worry, overwhelm, anxiety, and fear. Each section highlights a step on the path from unsettled to settled—like finding calm, coming home to yourself, and honoring connection—and walks you through the mindfulness-based tools, daily habits, and guided meditations that will help move you through life's most challenging moments and take you from chaos to calm. You'll also find: Experiential learning techniques that rely on proven methods you can put into daily practice A safe space you can go when the time is right for you to begin addressing the issues affecting you A source of validation that confirms the value of your emotions and experiences An effective and hands-on resource for busy professionals, academics, students, athletes, and anyone else doing their best to confront the challenges life constantly throws at us, Let It Settle is an extraordinary ally in the quest to see clearly and determine with confidence your next best step.

Preface: Unsettled xi Introduction xvii Part 1 Finding Calm 1 1 Letting It Settle 3 2 Easing Anxiety 15 3 Facing Fear 29 4 Meditations and Daily Habits for Finding Calm 41 Part 2 Coming Home to Yourself 53 5 Listening In 55 6 Cultivating Self-Love 69 7 Letting Go 83 8 Heading Home 97 9 Meditations and Daily Habits for Coming Home to Yourself 107 Part 3 Honoring Connection 119 10 Understanding Empathy 121 11 Navigating Anger 139 12 Leading with Love 157 13 Finding Forgiveness 171 14 Meditations and Daily Habits for Honoring Connection 191 Final Thoughts: Settled 207 About the Author 217 Index 219