Life can often feel like a high-stakes game with no time for pause. Yet sometimes, all you need is 13 minutes to shift your internal landscape. Let's dive in.
Length of the Meditation:
13 minutes
Description:
"A Journey to Inner Calm and Love" is not just another guided meditation—it's a transformative journey through serene environments, engaging your senses and soul. Deep breathing techniques merge with potent mantras, directing you toward dimensions of self-love and love for others. It's an invitation to pause, breathe, and saturate your emotional world with calm and generous love.
List of Benefits:
Invites a profound sense of inner calm
Enriches your emotional well-being
Explores dimensions of love and emotional generosity
Deepens breathing awareness
Suitable for those familiar with meditation and newcomers alike
Time of Day:
Anytime you need a shift from emotional turbulence to tranquility.
Difficulty Level:
All levels. Whether you're a meditation novice or an old soul in the practice, this meditation offers a deep emotional cleanse.
Instructions:
Settle into a comfortable posture where you'll not be disturbed.
Close your eyes and let your breath become your anchor.
Open your heart to the mantras and let the calming narrative guide you.
Equipment Needed:
A quiet space
Optional headphones (if using, ensure cable is safely positioned)
"Embark on 'A Journey to Inner Calm and Love,' a 13-minute guided meditation designed to soothe your mind and enrich your emotional world. Dive into tranquil settings, deep breathing exercises, and powerful mantras."
Transcripts
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Welcome to a journey into inner calm and love. This is a simple meditation that would just help
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to quieten your mind and quieten your body and just quieten everything that's around us at the moment when we're
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feeling a little more overwhelmed or tired and stressed and maybe a little anxious.
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It's just a simple way of just remembering that there is calmness and there is love in the world and
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There's enough to go around and just centring ourselves in this moment.
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So first of all, just begin by becoming comfortable. Just allowing your body to relax and comfortable in whatever
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position you're in.
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Remember, you can always support my guided meditations by going to the link in the show notes just
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below.
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And you can head over to the website to... Download the five Simple Practices for Inner Peace. Or join my
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weekly newsletter, The Weekly Calm.
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But hopefully you've settled in a little bit and your body's relaxed a little bit now. Remember that relaxing the
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body isn't something we have to do. It's just something we allow to happen. And the same with the breath.
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Just allow your breath to happen.
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Breathing in calm. Breathing out relax.
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And Just allowing this moment to settle in.
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You don't have to do anything with this moment. You don't have to do anything with your body or your
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mind or even your breath.
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And now when you're ready, just spring to mind a little meadow or a beach or a quiet place
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next to a lake or something. Anywhere that you're used to going or somewhere you used to be able to
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get to when it was feeling nice and peaceful. Just
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imagine being there now.
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How warm is it? Can you feel the sun on you?
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Maybe it's particularly in the winter or something and you like going there on the colder days.
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This is unique to you
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but really imagine what it's like with the whole body to be there
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And just feel that sense of
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calmness
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and just notice the way everything just becomes slightly more quieter
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And if there's anytime your mind wanders, just smile and thank you for the thought. We're just here breathing at
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the moment.
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A little bit of calmness and...
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Inner Calm and a little bit of inner love.
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And we can start this process just by saying to ourselves inside, may I be happy.
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May I be healthy.
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May I be loved.
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And as we go through them again, imagine what it feels like to be happy.
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Imagine what it feels like to be healthy.
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And imagine what it feels like to be loved.
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And you may initially
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have a feeling that these things aren't true.
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You may have that internal conflict where well
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I don't know what it feels like to be happy because I'm not happy or I'm not healthy.
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But Just for this moment,
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What does it feel like to be like that?
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Maybe we can just pretend so the body doesn't know any different.
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So may I be happy.
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May I be healthy.
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May I be loved.
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And now as you're in your quiet spot, the place where you enjoy to go, just imagine a friend there
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with you
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You could be a friend from the past or someone you know now. You could even choose a pet or
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dog.
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Just anybody that you want to share some peace and love and healing with.
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Imagine them just being there calm with you now.
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And we just turn our awareness to them and just saying we feel it deeply. May
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you find peace.
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May you find healing.
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May you find love.
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May you find peace.
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May you find healing.
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May you find love.
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And with that person there, we'll turn our attention to someone else.
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You're here with your friend or your companion. And
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imagine doing this together
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when we do this, we heal the world just a little bit and
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we give the world a little bit of love. And it just moves the needle just a little bit.
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So just imagine them there
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And just imagine you and your friend just
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moving the awareness and saying, may you find peace.
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May you find healing.
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May you find love.
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May you find peace. May
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you find healing. May
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you find love.
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Now bring your awareness back to this moment and you're sat in your peaceful place where you love being,
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whether it was a meadow or a beach. You're
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just back there in the perfect conditions of the way it was and the way you enjoy it most.
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The friend that you love deeply and so appreciate can still be there with you if you want.
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But this time we're going to turn the needle around and the compass around and aim it towards ourselves again.
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And this time, instead of just feeling the love for ourselves, we're actually going to give ourselves some love,
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give ourselves some healing, and give ourselves some peace.
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Sometimes say this is the most difficult one to do. It
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doesn't always feel comfortable giving ourselves love. We're so taught to give love to elsewhere, give love to somebody else.
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And
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we grow up conditioned to look for love from elsewhere.
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So when we turn it on ourselves and we love ourselves, it almost feels a conflict. It almost feels a
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little bit uncomfortable.
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And remember what love is. Love is acceptance. Just completely accepting everything about yourself in
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this present moment.
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Bring your awareness to your breath in this lovely, peaceful place you're in.
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And this time when you say,
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May I be happy. Just
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imagine yourself being happier.
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May I be happy.
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May I be healthy.
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And this one's the big one.
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May I give and receive love
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and Just imagine receiving all that love from yourself.
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What does it feel?
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You notice the conflict sometimes.
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It's much easier to love somebody else than it is to love ourselves.
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What would it feel like if we could love ourselves? Accept yourself exactly how you are. Exactly who you
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are right now.
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Love everything about you in this moment. Then
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with May
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I Be Loved.
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And with each breath. Breathing in love.
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And with each out breath.
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Allowing that love to penetrate the whole world.
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That includes ourselves.
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Now bring your awareness back to your breath. Breathing in calm leaving out relax And
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gently open your eyes and just look around this room and shake out your arms and just
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recognise that conflict. Recognise that slight hesitant to Turn the love on ourselves
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and just to be completely loved.
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And that's okay
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allowed to love ourselves.
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That's where we give ourselves in a calm inner
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peace. It's the way we heal and the way we accept ourselves.
