Guided Meditation Library

This meditation assumes you have familiarity with metta / loving kindness already and invites you to visualize the ways in which metta can take an active role in your life. You will be guided to look out for opportunities to connect with others and to notice how it is to act from a place of metta.

In this short meditation we explore what it means to have personal preferences, and see how this seemingly simple part of our lives is actually quite important to acknowledge and be aware of. Our preferences are a key part of our self-definition, and we will practice embracing our likes and dislikes, while also coming to terms with how its both valid to pursue our preferences, and also sometimes necessary to temporarily set them aside.

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.

A sense of safety is necessary for us to feel securely attached. Attachment disturbances can mean that an internal sense of safety is difficult to achieve, even when external conditions are safe. By learning to cultivate a feeling of safety, we will be better prepared to heal and to develop more secure attachment.

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.

The natural reaction to suffering is to try to push it away or escape it. It is the rejection of suffering that prevents us from responding well to it. This meditation invites you to let in any pain that is present, to really feel it with support from the Perfect Nurturers, and to mature in line with greater acceptance of the reality of suffering.

In this meditation you will be guided in relaxation, invited to explore schema modes (compulsive behaviors), and then led in recognizing them. By mentalizing the modes in this way, they lose power over you, and you can live from a more authentic and open place.