To help you deepen your practice (or get started), we’ve rounded up 10 guided meditations that have resonated most with you, our readers, over the past year.
The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2021
1) A 10-Minute Gratitude Practice to Notice, Shift, and Rewire Your Brain
When things don’t go according to plan, it’s easy to spot all the ways things have gone wrong. This gratitude practice from Nate Klemp is designed to change that. This exercise is adapted from Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing by Eric Langshur and Nate Klemp, and is led by mindfulness coach Priti Patel.
2) A 10-Minute Guided Meditation for R.E.S.T.
Rashid Hughes invites us to become more familiar with our inner spaciousness—where the pleasure of resting in awareness is sacred and healing.
Nate Klemp March 22, 2021
3) A 12-Minute Meditation for Emotional Resilience
In this practice, Scott Rogers guides us to take the role of observer to difficult emotions, so that we can more easily create the space we need to let them go.
Rashid Hughes February 19, 2021
4) A 12-Minute Guided 4-7-8 Breathing Meditation
Pulmonologist and founder of The Mindful Healthcare Collective Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang leads us in a breathing practice to release stagnant air and find calm. This can be particularly helpful for those with chronic or obstructive lung disease.
Scott Rogers January 4, 2021
5) A 10-Minute Guided Meditation to Open Up to Painful Emotions
Law professor and author Rhonda Magee offers a 10-minute guided meditation to remain grounded as reactivity arises.
Ni-Cheng Liang August 23, 2022
6) A 12-Minute Breathing Practice to Activate Your Vagus Nerve
Andres Gonzales leads a simple breathing practice to help you extend the length of your exhale, telling the body it’s safe to let your guard down.
Rhonda Magee May 26, 2022
7) A 6-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation to Expand Your Awareness
Tita Angangco, cofounder of The Centre for Mindfulness Studies, shares a loving-kindness meditation that serves as an ignition to spark change.
Andres Gonzalez September 7, 2021
8) A 15-Minute Meditation for Self-Acceptance
On some level, many of us are healing from perfectionism, but with mindfulness we can learn to embrace our flaws. Cheryl Jones, founder of The Mindful Path, shares a guided practice to be with ourselves as we are.
Tita Angangco April 12, 2021
9) A 10-Minute Meditation for Deep Relaxation
Jenée Johnson shares a mindfulness practice that is at the heart of one of our most basic needs: rest. As Johnson explains, there is no healing without rest.
Cheryl Jones May 26, 2021
10) A 12-Minute Meditation for Connecting to Your Body
The four elements have the ability to connect us, both internally and externally, with the world around us. Jeanne Corrigal brings her Métis heritage, and her training as an insight meditation teacher, to this guided practice to connect with the four elements within our own body.
Jenée Johnson November 1, 2022
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