Guided Meditation Library

Self definition describes knowing who you are and what you are about. Drawing on insights from Schema Therapy and Attachment Theory, this meditation invites you to feel into a more confident sense of self.

With this meditation, you can practice actually embodying the traits of secure attachment. By doing this you will become familiar with how it feels acting from a place of security so you can recognize it in daily life. And you will cultivate these traits in yourself so you can draw on them whenever you need.

With this meditation, you can practice actually embodying the traits of secure attachment. By doing this you will become familiar with how it feels acting from a place of security so you can recognize it in daily life. And you will cultivate these traits in yourself so you can draw on them whenever you need.

Attachment is an innate evolutionary drive in all of us. In childhood we seek attachment with parent figures, and we continue to be in attachment relationships throughout our lives. By visualizing the traits of secure attachment and seeing ourselves embody them we can grow into secure attachment figures, for our own happiness and of those around us.

We do an investigation into our personal Healthy Adult qualities (our best self) and we strengthen these in order to have a better effect on the world and in our relationships. We do some metacognitive exercises to reflect on things go much better when we are in this mode, and some visualisations to reinforce these qualities. We also do some exercises on Executive Function and exploration.

This meditation invites us to reflect on the qualities of Bernstein's Healthy Adult Mode and see how we can embody them. We will also examine any schemas or modes (negative beliefs or coping behaviors) that take us out of the Healthy Adult Mode, seeing how they made sense at one time, but are no longer needed.