Guided Meditation

An easy way to meditate…  

Guided meditations are an easy way to meditate. Either in person, or through a recording, you are voice-guided through a meditation step-by-step. The recorded meditations can be used each time you meditate or, depending on the style of meditation, they can help you to learn to meditate on your own. (Our Meditation Oasis CD has a Breath Meditation that you will be able to do on your own after you’ve used the meditation several times.  Our other CDs that have meditations you can do on your own are our Body Aware CD and our Silence of Being CD.) 

Meditation can be an invaluable tool for creating health and well-being, as well as personal and spiritual growth. Some will discover practices they can use on their own, but for others, meditating with a guide may be most effective. Even those with a regular meditation practice can benefit from various forms of guided meditation. Being guided allows for an effortlessness that may be difficult to achieve on one’s own.

Different Approaches

There are many different approaches to guided meditation, each with a different purpose. For example, some are for healing or self-improvement (the latter may include meditations to create prosperity, improve relationships or any number of specific goals). Others are more general, aimed at quieting the mind and producing calmness. Some are designed to evoke “higher states of consciousness” or to enliven various aspects of the human energy field (for example, various “chakra” meditations.)

Many guided meditations use imagery, either describing very specific images which produce certain experiences, or inviting the listener to allow their own images to appear. Others may be body-focused, for example an instruction in progressive relaxation, or there may be instructions with regard to the use of the breath.

Guided meditations invariably reflect the background and orientation of the “guide”. They may or may not reflect a particular religious or spiritual tradition, such as Buddhism or Christianity, since meditation in one form or another is a practice in most religions. For some, prayer becomes a kind of meditation. If the guide has a background with some particular meditation tradition, that will invariably influence the style of guided meditation.

Finding just the right guided meditation for your needs may take some exploration and trying some on for size. While the actual content of the guided meditations will have some importance, the quality of the voice and “presence” of the guide will play an important part. Pepole respond differently to different guides.

Take a break in our Relaxation Room to try one our our popular guided meditations now.

 

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