Top 94 results for “guided meditations”

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How to Use Guided Meditations

Guided meditation can be used to promote better sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, and even to relieve chronic pain.

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Audio Meditation: Gratitude

A short meditation to instantly bring love and compassion to yourself so that you can bring love and gratitude to the world.

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Meditating With Your Anger

An audio meditation to engage with our anger and compassion without shame.

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Guided Meditation for the End of the Year

Say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new.

Guided Meditation for Loving Your Belly

This meditation will help you to explore your own belly, offering it thanks, appreciation, and perhaps a little bit of healing.

The Fullness of Emptiness: A Guided Breath Meditation

This guided meditation explores the bottom of the breath.

Audio Meditation: A Pleasure Practice

A guided meditation for tasting a little sweetness.

Audio Meditation for Connecting to the Heart

The heart holds our love, connection, joy, and forgiveness. It can also hold grief and anxiety. Sometimes what the heart feels is very different from what the mind thinks it wants.…

5-Minute Pratyahara Meditation to Focus the Mind and Calm Anxiety

Use this guided meditation to draw the senses closer to connect with the body in the present moment.

Earth Meditation for Safety and Calm

Feeling stressed or overwhelmed? Slow down and connect to Earth energy, which is grounding and calming. Allow Earth to remind you where you came from and all the potential you still have ahead of you. Take a few deep breaths and rest with your original mama: Earth.

From Holidaze to Holydays: A 7-minute Reset

An audio meditation to help reset from your worst self to your best self.

Harmony Meditation

Practice these breathing exercises, guided visualizations, and meditations that promote inner balance, and the recognition of expansive unity.

Swami Premodaya

Swami Premodaya is a spiritual teacher, author, and founder of the International Centers of Divine Awakening. For a full schedule of events and programs, as well as a free guided m…

Heart-Based Decision Making: Journey Inward With Breath & Heart

Explore the process of learning to make decisions from your heart center.

Embracing Wholeness: The Path to Holistic Living at Bhakti Fest

Bhakti Fest offers seekers a chance to build conscious community while nourishing their own spirits. Learn more about this year's gathering, happening September 15-17 in Joshua Tree, California.

5 Quick Ways to Manage Big Emotions

Overwhelming emotions are common but often feel insurmountable. Try these five techniques to ground yourself and unwind.

Meditation: A Gateway to Exploring Your True Nature

Meditation practices are renowned for helping people quiet their minds, leading to a greater sense of peace and serenity.

9 Wellness Resources for Black Women When Life Gets You Down

Black Girl Magic can’t protect us from everything. Here are nine online resources to help black women keep our cool when racism rears its ugly head.

A Good Night’s Sleep

Is anything better than waking up refreshed? Are you unable to answer that question because you don’t remember what waking up refreshed feels like? We can relate. Read on if you or anyone you love needs tips on how to get a good night's sleep.

Dealing with COVID-19: 5 Ways to Control Coronavirus Anxiety

Is coronavirus news ramping up your anxiety? Does the thought of social distancing make you fret? Try these five strategies to help you cope.

Moon Rituals: Tending Your Internal Garden

“New moons are related to water and fertility. Metaphorically, in the dark of the new moon, we pause to consider our desires, set intentions, and think about what we might want to put our energy into as the moon waxes towards full.”

COVID-19 and the Truth About Happiness

Finding perspective on COVID-19.

Book Review: Neurodharma

We can leverage mental tools to tap into desired feelings of calm, contentment, peace, focus, and non-judgement, and move away from stress and anxiety.

What’s Your Doggie’s Dosha?

Canine wellness expert Amanda Ree dishes ayurvedic wisdom via dog dosha quizzes, balancing your furry friend's dosha and customizing it to meet your BFF's unique needs.

Faux Paws: Common Sayings Animal Lovers Should Avoid

Thingifying animals is a thing (Sure! I'll be your guinea pig!)—and words matter. Here are tips for kinder and more mindful, animal-inclusive speech from the world’s wisdom traditions.

The Way of Gratitude: A Minister’s View on Connection

The Way of Gratitude author and prominent Unitarian Universalist minister Galen Guengerich dives deep on faith, belonging, morality, and, of course, gratitude.

8 Tricks for Controlling Holiday Binge Eating and Drinking

Avoid overeating and drinking too much this holiday season by mindfully focusing on giving yourself pleasure rather than trying to numb the pain.

Meditation Apps: Do They Work for Us or Against Us?

"Meditation takes practice, and in the beginning, like any new skill, meditation can seem challenging."

5 Reasons You’re Not Sleeping

If you are struggling to get a good night’s rest, you may want to address these common sleep disruptors.

What's Your Game of Thrones?

Not everyone excels at flights of fancy, but for those stuck on the ground, maybe fantasizing can become a useful practice.

5 Tips for Holiday Stress Management

Here are a few tips for keeping calm and taking care during the holiday season.

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This Summer Camp Teaches Stop, Breathe & Think

And it changes the world, one interaction at a time.

3 Ways to Use Meditation to Boost Creativity

Three ways to up your creative forces.

Strategies for Overcoming Resistance and Distractions in Meditation

Here are some strategies that will help you stay steady on the path of a regular meditation practice.

10 Ways to Make Meditation Practice A No-Brainer

Set yourself up for successful meditation practice.

Live as an Everyday Mystic

How are you participating in co-creating paradigm shifts in your personal and professional lives as we usher in this new era?

Death Awareness: Wrestling, Reflecting, and Revising the Final Act

Practicing death awareness need not be morbid. It can help you live your values more fully and cherish your life.

Diving Deep Into Darkness

Zen Buddhist priest Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel shares her wisdom on leaning into life’s many difficulties and invites us to explore our relationships to darkness and blackness as we know them.

Book Review: Opening to Darkness

Facing challenges might be typical of human experience, but confronting the darkness within those challenges is an individual matter, if not a compelling choice—the governing theme…

23 Great Places to Pause, Reflect, and Renew

Our 2023 Retreat Guide features 23 unique retreat centers design to help you heal, restore, and connect with your highest self. Where will you retreat to this year?

How to Forest Bathe With Your Dog

Familiar with forest bathing? Try this meditative practice with your pup for an added benefit.

10 Health Benefits of Meditation for Seniors

Explore how meditation can provide profound health benefits, especially for seniors.

7 Meditation Techniques to Support You Through Grief

Feeling overwhelmed by the depths of loss? One of these meditation techniques (and 10-minute guided meditation) may prove supportive.

What Is Color Meditation?

Discover how the creator of The Color Meditation Deck used color meditation to change her perspective, and how you can, too.

How to Avoid Place Blindness

Place blindness is a form of apathy that sets in when we don’t spend enough time outdoors. Overcome place blindness “to feel alive, to feel good.”

5 Ways to Practice Body Neutrality as You Age

Let go of the pressure to love your body. As you age, body neutrality helps you see your body as a resource whose value is constant.

6 Life-Changing Stages of Spiritual Awakening

Which stage of spiritual awakening are you in?

Anxiety Toolkit: Naming Your Anxiety and Sending It a Message

Wrapping your arms around anxiety is about speaking directly and compassionately to your anxiety.

How to Identify and Work With Your Power Animal

Supporter power animals offer potent energetic medicine, wisdom, and teachings. Your core power animal is with you every day for your entire lifetime.

The Good Noise: Sound Medicine Works

While researchers are still exploring the mechanism of sound medicine, studies show that sound therapy boosts spiritual wellbeing and reduces anxiety and pain.

Stories That Connect

“We are united in the emotions that drive us into the beliefs that divide us.”

7 New Ways to Get Closer to Your Partner This Valentine’s Day

Ask questions, read each other’s dreams, make chakra soups, and more.

Choose Hope and Healing in Divided Times

Become part of a collective lifting up of humanity by actively choosing hope and healing and by sending light into a divided world.

How to Embody Kindness

Willa Blythe Baker sits down to discuss her somatic mindfulness journey.

Tuning In to the Wisdom of Winter

Winter marks another completion around the sun—a perfect occasion to contemplate what’s most important to us.

Are You Blocked? Take This Chakra Quiz to Find Out

Answer eight chakra quiz questions to determine where there’s imbalance in your system and how you can realign.

Be Happy the Greco-Roman Way

You can thank the ancients for everything from democracy to libraries, the alphabet to zoology. What do they say about happiness?

Ana Lilia

Ana Lilia is a certified breathwork teacher and healer leading thousands of people to intimately connect with their breath as a pathway for transformation. Ana channels her intuit…

9 Steps to Zen & Inner Peace

What is the secret to happiness and spiritual expansion? Follow these 9 steps to zen and develop an inner state of balance and tranquility.

High Summer and the Divine Feminine

What kind of summer do you want to have? Explore the divine feminine within yourself, whatever your gender.

Is Meditation Teacher Training Right for Me?

With interest in spirituality surging, the need for qualified meditation teachers has grown. Is meditation teacher training right for you?

Reclaim Rest: A Rest-Guided Meditation to Help You Connect to Calm Instantly

Reclaim rest with a rest guided meditation that will take you on a journey of self-exploration.

Invoking the Mystical Phoenix

The phoenix appears throughout the world as a symbol of rebirth and resilience. How can you invoke the power of the mystical phoenix in your daily life?

The Wisdom of Trees

Discover the wisdom of the trees with a grounding tree meditation script and audio.

Refresh Body and Spirit With a Moon Practice

Does your New Year’s Resolution feel like a distant memory? The moon provides a monthly fresh start.

Yoga for Better Sleep

You can improve your sleep just by implementing bedtime yoga sequences into your daily practice. Yoga for better sleep can be done from the comfort of your own bed.

Reconnecting and Recommitting to Mother Earth

The courage and strength to take a stand for our planet can be found through reconnecting with the energy and ease of Mother Earth.

If You Feel Like a Weird Yoga Alien…

Joining or starting a “sangha” can support your personal growth.

9 Keys to Lasting Happiness

According to the ancient philosophy of the Vedanta, there are two types of happiness. The first comes from things turning out the way we’d like them to, i.e. getting what we want. …

When You Need Stillness

Lately, my mind has felt very crowded. There are so many thoughts bumping up against each other in my brain. You have sooooo much to do. Did you call this person? Pay that bill? R…

How to Commute Inward

In her beautiful book Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, Dani Shapiro writes, “The deeper I immerse myself in the details—and they are mostly pleasur…

Finding Quiet

7 places to experience silence

Five Variations on 5-Minute Meditations

Easy options for 5-minute meditations

Letter to the Inner Child

Try this writing practice of forgiveness: Visualize the person you felt hurt by as an 8 year old.

Stop Self Criticizing, Start Meditating

According to the experts, meditation lessens the extremities of negative thoughts, changes patterns of belief and facilitates learning how to forgive yourself.

Our Top 10 Apps for Health & Wellness

Pull out your smartphone and get ready to download these healthy tools.

The Force of Kindness

Change Your Life with Love and Compassion By Sharon Salzberg There is a thread that runs through all the world’s great wisdom teachings and religions, crossing the barriers of ti…

3 Tips for Building a Meditation Habit

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How I Finally Awakened from My Past Lives

Sometimes an unnecessary burden can be very useful

Wake up from Unworthiness

An Interview with Tara Brach

The Value of Mental Pictures

How One Woman Fights PTSD With Guided Imagery

Classical Musician Serenades the Chakras

Musician Miriam Jameson shares the story that inspired her new album.

Lana Dalberg: The Divine Feminine

Rabbi Rami Shapiro spoke to activist and theologian Lana Dalberg about women's spiritual experiences and the power of Divine Femininity.

Eckhart Tolle: The Easier Path

The renowned spiritual teacher on getting stuck in the future and saving the planet.

Just Say Yes

Dr. Ron Alexander sat listening to the record company executives and staff he’d been hired to help. They’d sought him out as a mindfulness expert and corporate consultant to help t…

"Samsara": A Cinematic Meditation

Two decades after rewriting the language of documentary filmmaking in the groundbreaking Baraka, director Ron Fricke and writer-producer Mark Magidson are adding the next chapter w…

Join a Movement Called Squam

Four years ago, Elizabeth Duvivier had a high-powered job in product development. She had watched her company grow from a small, single-owner entity to a corporate behemoth and was…

A Sound Sleep

Guided Meditations with Relaxing Music & Nature Sounds By Dudley and Dean Evenson Husband-and-wife team Dean and Dudley Evenson address the needs of two types of stressed-out ins…