Guided Meditation Library

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.

This meditation evokes imaginal parents for our inner child, helping us draw on qualities of compassion and acceptance so we can release past hurts. We will get in touch with our natural capacity to identify with others, understand ourselves, and experience forgiveness. The meditation finishes with a writing prompt.

This meditation aims to bring the resource of imaginal parents more to life by imagining what a perfect inner parent would be like. By cultivating delight in the beloved, we learn how to attune with them and generate joy, compassion, and confidence.

Schema modes are emotional states and coping strategies that we all use. Below is an exploration of how attachment styles exhibit or inhibit different modes. By bringing different modes to mind, we can understand their roles in our lives. Examining them in the light of mindfulness, we can begin to choose whether or not to act on them.

Schema modes are emotional states and coping strategies that we all use. Below is an exploration of how the attachment styles exhibit or inhibit different modes. By bringing different modes to mind, we can understand their roles in our lives. Examining them in the light of mindfulness, we can begin to choose whether or not to act from them.

When we take our schemas (negative self-beliefs) at face value, allowing ourselves to really believe them, we have the chance to disconfirm them by having corrective emotional experiences. In this guided meditation, we will try to learn about our schemas and create new emotional memories through visualisation.

A meditation that draws on a sense of loving kindness to disconfirm schemas (negative self-beliefs). You will be guided through a series of visualisations and asked questions to help you learn about any schemas at play in your life.

This meditation elicits the schema (negative self-belief) we want to work on and, since the mind can't hold conflicting emotional information, we set about repatterning it with positive emotional experiences. In this meditation, we not only work through the schema but seek to understand how it formed.

The schema repatterning begins at 7:52 after a period of arrival and grounding in the body. We elicit the schema (negative self-belief) we want to work on and, since the mind can't hold conflicting emotional information, we set about repatterning it with positive emotional experiences. In this meditation, we not only work through the schema but seek to understand how it formed.

In Schema Repatterning Meditation we elicit the schema (negative self-belief) we want to work on and, since the mind can't hold conflicting emotional information, we set about repatterning it with positive emotional experiences.

In Schema Repatterning Meditation we elicit the schema (negative self-belief) we want to work on and, since the mind can't hold conflicting emotional information, we set about repatterning it with positive emotional experiences.