What is Guided Meditation?

One of the most common uses of guided meditation is guided meditation for mindfulness. This explores a crucial point on how to be present and mindful in any given moment. Our minds, actions, and habits can be tightly linked to the emotions of fear, worry, and distress. Mindfulness teaches us to have a healthy distance from our emotions and habits so we can see things from a clearer perspective. It connects us with who we truly are in a simple and profound way; a tool we can then directly apply into our daily lives. For example, if we disliked a commute to work each morning, using mindfulness could make it a positive routine instead of a negative one. We could use it as a time to listen to our favorite music, remember all the people we are grateful for, or just be present with the beauty of the sky above and the people around us. This is a powerful and deeply relaxing habit to practice daily.

Those who experience temporary or ongoing sleep issues may find comfort through sleep meditation. When a good night’s rest seems impossible, a soothing guided meditation for sleep and relaxation can help by re-training the body, mind, and emotions to have a better relationship with sleep. If sleep cannot be achieved, it can help with developing the skill of deep rest and relaxation. For some people sleep issues can cause a sense of fear or panic every time bedtime comes around, which can make the symptoms even worse. Guided meditation for insomnia can help reset the emotional correlation of sleep by making it a self-loving experience or something one looks forward to. It can help with being the catalyst for moving in a healthy direction of quality sleep in life. For anyone looking to enhance their sleep, you can learn through practiced guided meditation how to achieve a more restful and rejuvenating sleep each night.

Relationships, whether with ourselves or others, are an integral part of our inner well-being. All relationships reflect how we treat ourselves. Guided meditation for relationships shows us how to heal, nurture, and listen to the most important relationship we will ever have- with ourselves. It is about listening to our inner needs and learning how to fulfill those needs with love and respect to ourselves. This will then mirror and reflect the same love and respect to all other people we meet. This is an invaluable skill for building and maintaining healthy relationships with those in our lives.

Self-esteem is so important in our daily lives. Whether you seem to have none or falsely project too much, true self-esteem is a pleasant and relaxing state of being. Guided meditation can be used as a daily or weekly medium. It will help you delve into the perception of loving yourself, knowing you are worthy, inner confidence, and much more. Most of the time a lack of self-esteem comes from an inner wound, belief, or habitual action that we do not deserve “x”. Then, from not believing we deserve it, we unconsciously sabotage or destroy any attempts to achieve happiness. It is a downward spiral that can be broken by finding a good meditation guide to re-teach you what healthy confidence feels like. This will allow you to move through your life in a clear, confident, and peaceful way with a strong self-love foundation.

Whether you experience occasional or chronic anxiety, here’s how guided meditation for anxiety can help. Anxiety, when you sit with it, can feel like a deeply unpleasant vibration in the body. It can incapacitate your thinking, halt actions, and for some people severely interfere with their daily lives. It can consume everything. Guided meditation for relaxation helps to teach the body, mind, and emotions how to return to a calm state of being. This can take time, as it is almost like a new relaxed state of being that needs to be developed. Over time, if you start getting anxious, you will know what to do to calm the body, mind, and emotions- so you can continue your day in a relaxed state. A helpful tool for many people is learning about breathing exercises through guided meditation. You will experience a more slow and relaxed breathing tempo. Over time, if you practice this, when anxiety triggers, your body will automatically remember to slow down your breathing. When you slow down your breath, you slow down your mind and emotions.

Along with working with trained professionals for our physical and mental health, guided meditation for depression can assist in the healing or uplifting process of treating the blues. Depression has many causes. Guided meditation can assist with perception. Usually with depression, we can get stuck in a low energy or vibrational state. Essentially, this affects everything in our life: aspirations, mood, relationships, self-image, etc. However, using the tools that guided meditation offers, it can show us how to view things in a brighter, more optimistic, and energetic way. We can sort of step into the reality of the guided meditation, and understand new optimistic ways of looking at ourselves, our life, and every aspect of our experience. Sometimes having a new perception can assist with the energy needed to manage and/ or heal from depression.

What is abundance and how can guided meditation for abundance help? Abundance (which will be described as living in a peaceful, expansive, and happy state) is a lot like comparing a higher note on a scale vs. a lower note. Most of us naturally live in the lower notes of despair, frustration, or unhappiness because most of our world lives in that state. Guided meditation for abundance teaches you how to raise the note on your scale. This means you will learn happier and healthier ways of experiencing life. It will feel foreign at first, which is why a meditation guide can be useful here as they can lead you through these experiences safely. Learning and practicing abundance is a lot about learning how to hold and maintain a higher state of being; one of happiness and peace. It’s like a muscle that can be trained. After a while your body, thoughts, emotions, and energy will naturally vibrate on a higher note. Eventually, you will feel quite different- in a lighter, happier way. There truly are so many benefits to what guided meditation can provide for you. Just make sure you resonate with the meditation guide you work with as they will be the ones leading you down these healing avenues. Have a wonderful time on your meditation journey!