Yes, I know what you think of me. You never shut up. Never shut up. Never shut up.
Never shut up. Maybe I'm just the horizon you run to. Welcome to Never Shut Up. I'm your host, Rose Crass.
Today is April 13th, 2026, and we are talking about the song Here in My Head. Are you one of those people that really likes to overthink things? I often joke, welcome to my TED Talk on overthinking things with Rose, because sometimes we just think and think and think and think and maybe we can think our way out of a situation. We could think ourselves into a better relationship or think ourselves into a new way of life.
But look, honestly, if thinking yourself into something new was how things worked, then well, we wouldn't have to think so hard, right? I mean, we'd just know it all already, right? So this song is about getting out of your head, getting out of your dreams, because apple green ice cream, it melts in your hands. So we need to get into our bodies.
We need to get out of the unreal and back into the real and the realistic. Now, yoga talks about how everything is unreal. This world is an illusion. And the only thing that is really real is the transcendental self, the soul, the part of you that is always awake and aware, non-judgmental and longing for union with the whole union with God, the universe, I mean, whatever you wish to call our pitly human name you'd like to put on the all the everything.
So it is better to get out of our heads completely and meditation is a really great way to do that. But we really need to get back in our bodies. Best position for this is on your hands and your knees in a table position. You could be in another position.
Allow your spine to be nice and straight. Drop your head. Let it hang from the neck so that the weight of the head releases through the neck. Find your breath here.
Nice, even inhale and exhale. And as we soften and breathe here, begin to think about the back of your body. Every inhale we're allowing the abdomen to expand and every exhale we are lengthening the spine, inhaling to expand, exhaling to lengthen. Now begin to notice the breath moving into the back of your body, the way in which the breath moves with ease into the back of the body.
On your next inhale, imagine the breath now spreading across the horizon of the back. And then with your exhale, imagine lengthening the spine parallel to the earth and then soften everything to spread the breath across the horizon of your back from kidney to kidney, the back of the heart lifting and then exhaling and lengthening the spine. Inhaling to expand and open. And the breath travels across the horizon of the back.
We don't force. Instead, we allow when you reach the top of your inhale, pause for a moment so the breath can continue. The energy of the breath can continue spreading, spreading, spreading through the body and then move into the long exhale. Even as we are focused on the breath spreading across the horizon of the back, make sure your exhales are twice as long as your inhales and keep going.
And with that, I thank you for joining me and Tory for a little mental yoga today. We're five minutes day, so much better than 60 minutes once a week. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.
We're going to play this song with us, Gail. Okay? Up is the production of the Sideways Society. For more information and links to things mentioned on the show, please visit us online at songletorianus.com.
Yes, I know what you think of me. You never shut up.