A Zen Mind Guided Meditations

🌬️ This meditation uses the breath as a single point of focus, helping to slow down a busy or anxious mind and bring your attention back into the present moment. Through the practice of breath counting, we’ll strengthen our focus and concentration while creating space from the thoughts that can contribute to feelings of stress or anxiety. During this practice, we’ll count the breath from one to ten before making our way back down again (with guidance).  You’ll have a few minutes of your own to carry on this practice without guidance as well. This is a simple technique you can return to whenever your mind feels scattered, your thoughts feel overwhelming, or you simply need a few moments to slow down and refocus. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, music, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪷 This meditation is a practice that you can take with you far beyond these next few minutes and into your everyday life. Shoshin is the Zen practice of “beginner’s mind,” inviting us to approach our experiences with openness and curiosity, as though we were experiencing them for the very first time. ⁠Download the Free Shoshin Guide Here ⁠ My question to you as you begin this meditation: what might change if you looked at your relationships, your work, or even the obstacles you face with fresh eyes? Sometimes, Shoshin is all we need to shift our perspective. Through this practice, you’ll explore what happens when you loosen your grip on what you think you already know, bringing a little more curiosity, excitement, and playfulness into the ordinary moments of your life. (P.S., This is a great meditation to do outdoors!)  With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🐚This meditation takes us out of the thinking mind and into a sensory experience. So much of our lives are spent inside of our heads - thinking, planning, remembering, anticipating - while an entire world of sensation unfolds within the body.  Rather than a traditional body scan, this practice invites you to explore sensation itself, bringing awareness to the smallest points of feeling before expanding into the experience of your body as a whole.  All I ask is that you remain open and curious, noticing what you can feel and exploring what it means to experience the present moment through the body rather than the mind.  With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: QuinceTimeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌅 This meditation is the perfect start to a busy day. In just 5 minutes, we'll move through simple breathwork, using each inhale to welcome in gratitude, positive energy, possibility, and intention, and each exhale to release anything holding us back. Perfect for mornings when you're short on time, but still want to take a few moments for yourself and move into the day feeling centered, intentional, and open to everything ahead!  With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: QuinceTimeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪞 There are moments in our lives that face us with big questions, life changing decisions, and hard choices. Sometimes, those answers are not always easy to find, especially when our inner world becomes flooded with external input, the opinions of others, societal expectations, and the noise of everyday life. This meditation is a deeply reflective practice that is meant to act as a mirror. Many times, the answers already lie within us, and we simply need to be guided to a space of silence and inner trust to be able to hear from within. This meditation asks that you trust yourself. Please note the structure of this meditation: We begin this meditation with some gentle instruction. If you are listening to this meditation more than once, you may wish to start the actual meditation at 3:08 We move through a series of four questions, each offering 50–60 seconds of silence before we move on to the next.  You may wish to journal or reflect on these questions after the meditation. Keep a pen and paper (or your Notes app 😉) handy. “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themself, without running away.” ― Leland Val Van De Wall With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices