A Zen Mind Guided Meditations

💗 This 10 minute meditation is for those tender moments when our emotions feel difficult to navigate. Inspired by the idea that “the only way out is through,” this practice invites you to approach your emotions with love, compassion, patience, and acceptance. When we're hurting, it's natural to distract ourselves, avoid uncomfortable feelings, or feel the need to fix or change them. But learning to sit with our emotions, even the difficult ones, can be a powerful act of kindness toward ourselves and an important part of emotional healing. Through somatic awareness, breathwork, and a loving mantra woven throughout this meditation, you'll be guided to connect with your emotions through the body, honor what you're feeling, and offer yourself compassion exactly where you need it most. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, music, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🍂 The changing of the seasons inspired this cozy autumn sleep meditation. Just as nature moves through seasons of rest, renewal, and restoration, so do we  During this cozy sleep visualization, we begin with slow, deep 4-7-8 breathing to support the vagus nerve and invite the body into a deeper state of relaxation. From there, you’ll be guided beneath an autumn night sky, attaching the thoughts and worries of your day to falling leaves and watching as they gently drift away. I hope you soften into a space of peace, tranquility, and comfort as the day fades behind you and you begin to drift into deep, restorative sleep. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, music, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💗 This meditation centers around the Sanskrit mantra Aham Prema, meaning “I am love.” So often, we seek love outside of ourselves, looking for it in other people, experiences, or places. But what happens when we begin to recognize that we ourselves are an embodiment of love? Through mantra, breath, and heart centered awareness, this practice will guide you into opening your heart and reconnecting with the love already within you. As we nurture that connection, we create space to meet ourselves with greater tenderness and move through the world from a softer, more loving place. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, music, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🫧 During this practice, we will explore a mindfulness technique called noting, which helps us become more aware of what’s happening as it happens. Here, we’ll gently name the experiences that arise: thinking, hearing, feeling. A thought, a sound, a sensation in the body, all becoming something we can notice. It’s easy to get swept up in an experience before we’ve had a chance to recognize it. By giving it a name, we create a little space between ourselves and what’s unfolding. From that space, we can observe our thoughts and feelings with more clarity and compassion, and feel more connected to the present moment. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, music, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌬️ This meditation uses the breath as a single point of focus, helping to slow down a busy or anxious mind and bring your attention back into the present moment. Through the practice of breath counting, we’ll strengthen our focus and concentration while creating space from the thoughts that can contribute to feelings of stress or anxiety. During this practice, we’ll count the breath from one to ten before making our way back down again (with guidance).  You’ll have a few minutes of your own to carry on this practice without guidance as well. This is a simple technique you can return to whenever your mind feels scattered, your thoughts feel overwhelming, or you simply need a few moments to slow down and refocus. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, music, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪷 This meditation is a practice that you can take with you far beyond these next few minutes and into your everyday life. Shoshin is the Zen practice of “beginner’s mind,” inviting us to approach our experiences with openness and curiosity, as though we were experiencing them for the very first time. ⁠Download the Free Shoshin Guide Here ⁠ My question to you as you begin this meditation: what might change if you looked at your relationships, your work, or even the obstacles you face with fresh eyes? Sometimes, Shoshin is all we need to shift our perspective. Through this practice, you’ll explore what happens when you loosen your grip on what you think you already know, bringing a little more curiosity, excitement, and playfulness into the ordinary moments of your life. (P.S., This is a great meditation to do outdoors!)  With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🐚This meditation takes us out of the thinking mind and into a sensory experience. So much of our lives are spent inside of our heads - thinking, planning, remembering, anticipating - while an entire world of sensation unfolds within the body.  Rather than a traditional body scan, this practice invites you to explore sensation itself, bringing awareness to the smallest points of feeling before expanding into the experience of your body as a whole.  All I ask is that you remain open and curious, noticing what you can feel and exploring what it means to experience the present moment through the body rather than the mind.  With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: QuinceTimeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌅 This meditation is the perfect start to a busy day. In just 5 minutes, we'll move through simple breathwork, using each inhale to welcome in gratitude, positive energy, possibility, and intention, and each exhale to release anything holding us back. Perfect for mornings when you're short on time, but still want to take a few moments for yourself and move into the day feeling centered, intentional, and open to everything ahead!  With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: QuinceTimeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪞 There are moments in our lives that face us with big questions, life changing decisions, and hard choices. Sometimes, those answers are not always easy to find, especially when our inner world becomes flooded with external input, the opinions of others, societal expectations, and the noise of everyday life. This meditation is a deeply reflective practice that is meant to act as a mirror. Many times, the answers already lie within us, and we simply need to be guided to a space of silence and inner trust to be able to hear from within. This meditation asks that you trust yourself. Please note the structure of this meditation: We begin this meditation with some gentle instruction. If you are listening to this meditation more than once, you may wish to start the actual meditation at 3:08 We move through a series of four questions, each offering 50–60 seconds of silence before we move on to the next.  You may wish to journal or reflect on these questions after the meditation. Keep a pen and paper (or your Notes app 😉) handy. “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themself, without running away.” ― Leland Val Van De Wall With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🎙️ Welcome to this special bonus episode of A Zen Mind!  A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of joining Aaron Hendon on The Mindful CEO Podcast for one of my favorite conversations I've had to date. In this interview, I share my personal journey into meditation and how it ultimately led me to creating A Zen Mind. We also get into business, hustle culture, mindfulness, neuroscience, brain training, and living a more connected, meaningful life. This isn't a guided meditation, but if you've ever been curious about my story, my take on meditation and the practice itself, or how mindfulness can influence the way we move through life, I think you'll really enjoy this conversation. You can find Aaron and The Mindful CEO Podcast in the links below: The Mindful CEO  Aaron Hendon on LinkedIn Aaron Hendon on Instagram With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☼ This affirmation based meditation is a versatile practice that you can listen to at any point throughout your day. Whether you choose to sit in stillness or listen while you begin your morning, commute, enjoy your coffee, wind down for the evening, or get ready for sleep, these 100 affirmations are meant to make you feel your best.  This practice is especially powerful when listening first thing in the morning or just before bed. Our mind begins to absorb and reflect what we repeatedly tell it, & while not every affirmation may feel true right away, it is through consistency, openness, and patience that we begin to gently rewrite our inner narrative. These affirmations are centered around positivity, self-belief, self-love, self-acceptance, confidence, gratitude, inner peace, resilience, and trust. Affirmations begin at: 2:57 With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bonus episode from our friend Christopher Fitton at Sleep Cove 🌜 Fall asleep fast and enjoy the deepest rest you've had in years with this deep sleep hypnosis session. Multiple hypnotic inductions help you sink deeper and deeper...turn the noise down on the outside world and ride the elevator down to a supremely relaxed, deep sleep state. #sleephypnosis #deepsleep  Listen to Sleep Cove on Spotify  Listen to Sleep Cove on Apple Podcasts  Listen to Sleep Cove on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌿This guided meditation is a healing space to release the weight of shame, grief, guilt, and regret. These are all completely normal human emotions, yet we often hold onto them far longer than we need to. During this practice, you'll gently acknowledge whatever is present, while shifting your focus toward self-compassion, acceptance, and the freedom to choose again. Using the breath and a grounding mantra, you'll be reminded that the past has already served its purpose, and that the present moment is where your true power lies.  "Every action I take is a conscious act of self-creation. I move with intention, courage, and clarity." With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⏱️ Sometimes all we need is a quick break to tune into what matters most. This guided meditation is a simple way to reconnect with your breath, ground into your body, and tune into the intention of your heart, allowing you to move through the rest of your day with greater peace, positivity, and awareness. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, distracted, anxious, or simply want to move through your day with more intention, this practice offers a loving, gentle space to pause, breathe, and reconnect. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bonus episode from our friend Tyer Brown at Sleep Escape 💜  Tonight, this sleep meditation will guide you through using the body's natural relaxation switch (the vagus nerve) to lead you into a deep, restful sleep that lasts all night long. This episode is also accompanied by soft pink noise and delta waves to further aid you in sleeping better and deeper.  Listen to Sleep Escape on Spotify Listen to Sleep Escape on Apple Podcasts Listen to Sleep Escape on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☀️ This morning meditation was inspired by the power of perspective.  So often, it's not our circumstances that shape our mood, but the way we choose to experience them. A simple shift in perspective can transform frustration into gratitude, helping us find peace, ease, and grace in places we may have otherwise overlooked. In this active meditation, we'll return to the mantra, "Today, I choose to see the good, and the good chooses me," while exploring the power of perspective, cultivating gratitude, and intentionally choosing thoughts that better serve you throughout the day. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💝 This meditation is an invitation to reconnect with your heart. So often, old fears, limiting beliefs, and past experiences create walls that disconnect us from our truth and make it difficult to live with openness, compassion, and love.  Through the breath, awareness, and intention, you'll be guided to soften those walls, release any heaviness you've been carrying, and return to the love, grace, and inner wisdom that have always been within you. May this practice help you cultivate greater peace within yourself and share that peace with the world around you. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🩷 This 10 minute practice offers the perfect break for those moments when stress or anxiety begins to creep in. This is a new, reupload of one of our most popular meditations from 2023. Stress and anxiety are natural parts of the human experience, but often signal that our minds have drifted away from the present moment—worrying about what’s ahead or dwelling on what’s already past. This meditation gently guides you back to your center, grounding you in the here and now, reconnecting you with your body and the space around you.  During this practice, we move through 4-6 calming breathwork, comforting guidance, and positive reassurance that this too will pass. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌜 This sleep meditation has been lovingly created to help you release the mental and physical stress of the day as you drift into a deep, restorative sleep.  Throughout this meditation, we follow the intention of allowing - a gentle signal of safety and trust to the body, as you allow the experience to unfold in whatever way you need tonight.  We begin with a simple box breathing practice before moving through a sensory awareness exercise and a soothing full-body relaxation. This meditation also features carefully curated 2.5Hz delta brain waves and binaural beats to support deep rest, relaxation, and sleep. *Extended Sleep Version Available on Patreon With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A bonus episode from our friend Tyler Brown at Wake Me Up ❤️ This guided morning meditation will lead you through a powerful 20-minute visualization to help you step into the most confident, focused, and fulfilled version of yourself...your best self. In just 20 minutes, you'll quiet the noise, picture your dream life in vivid detail, and anchor that vision into your body and mind, so you can carry it with you throughout your day. Perfect for beginners and experienced meditators alike. Listen every morning for 21 days and watch as your life begins to change for the better! Listen to Wake Me Up on Spotify Listen to Wake Me Up on Apple Podcasts Listen to Wake Me Up on Youtube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪷 This meditation is inspired by the practice of Zen, a tradition rooted in mindfulness, awareness, and presence. The goal is simple -  to have no goal. To observe things exactly as they are, without judgment, resistance, or attachment. Throughout this practice, we create space around the concept of awareness itself, gently guiding you deeper into the experience of the Self. While this is a mindfulness based meditation, its benefits extend far beyond these 20 minutes. Awareness is not something we practice only while in the midst of this practice,  it is something we carry into our conversations, our relationships, our decisions, and our everyday lives. I have found that the practice of awareness naturally creates more meaning, clarity, and presence. When we are truly present for whatever it is we are engaging in, life begins to feel richer. More connected. More intentional.  And perhaps most importantly, we begin to see things not as we think they should be, but as they truly are. :)  With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free, extended episodes, + more on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🤲 Affirmations are one of the most powerful tools we can use to shift our mindset, challenge our limiting beliefs, and reconnect with our inherent power of choice. During this simple affirmation meditation, we'll move through a series of powerful "I am" affirmations that will help you align your energy with success, self belief, confidence, resilience, and a positive outlook on life. These affirmations are especially great to listen to first thing in the morning.  This practice serves as a reminder that your thoughts matter, your mindset matters, and that you are capable of far more than you realize. You are worthy of creating, achieving, and attracting everything that you put your mind to. With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from Jo & A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌌 SLEEP VERSION This guided visualization is part of the Inner Sanctuary Series, a collection of meditative journeys and sleep stories lovingly created to transport you to peaceful inner landscapes where rest, healing, and imagination can flourish. Tonight, you'll journey to a hidden lake beneath a canopy of stars. Surrounded by rolling hills, and the quiet orchestra of the night, you'll be invited to release the day, reconnect with yourself, and rest in the vastness of the present moment - your inner sanctuary. We begin with a few deep breaths before moving into the journey. This experience includes immersive night sky imagery, gentle walking and nature sound effects, and calming 936HZ music throughout. Listen to other episodes from the Inner Sanctuary Series: ⁠Discover Your Inner Sanctuary ⁠ ⁠An Oasis For Your Mind With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. I’m a real person using my real voice. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌌  This guided visualization is part of the Inner Sanctuary Series, a collection of meditative journeys and sleep stories lovingly created to transport you to peaceful inner landscapes where rest, healing, and imagination can flourish. Tonight, you'll journey to a hidden lake beneath a canopy of stars. Surrounded by rolling hills, and the quiet orchestra of the night, you'll be invited to release the day, and rest in the vastness of the present moment - your inner sanctuary. We begin with a few deep breaths before moving into the journey. This experience includes immersive night sky imagery, gentle walking and nature sound effects, and calming 936HZ music throughout. Listen to other episodes from the Inner Sanctuary Series: Discover Your Inner Sanctuary  An Oasis For Your Mind With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. I’m a real person using my real voice. :)  __ Explore more from & A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🦚One of the biggest misconceptions about meditation is the idea that we must completely quiet or empty the mind. But the mind was created to think, and it will never simply stop thinking. So rather than forcing the mind to become silent, this meditation invites you into a gentler approach - shifting the relationship with what is present.  This is a mantra based and sensory oriented meditation, as we begin with an open eye awareness practice, and shift deeper together.  This practice was lovingly created to help you reconnect with presence, soften the over identification with the thinking mind, and cultivate a deeper sense of peace, awareness, and compassion within yourself. With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: QuinceTimeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: ShopifyEverything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌷 This guided meditation is all about the pure love and freedom of self-acceptance. During this practice, we move through a gentle visualization to help you reconnect with the core of who you truly are, beyond expectations, pressure, productivity, or perfection. So often, we feel as though we need to be doing more, achieving more, or becoming “better” in order to deserve love and acceptance. But true self acceptance is the realization that your worth has never been something you had to earn. Together, we return to the truth of your inherent worthiness. We close this practice with a series of gentle promises to ourselves, affirmation style, allowing us to soften into greater compassion, freedom, and love for who we already are. With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🚿 This meditation was created to help you let go of anything holding you back, reset your energy, and reconnect with your highest frequency. During this practice, we’ll move through an optional somatic exercise, breathwork, visualization, and affirmations, to help us release stagnant energy, and  elevate our frequency. So often, our bodies hold onto stress, negativity, overwhelm, and stagnant energy as a way of protecting us. Over time, the nervous system can begin operating from those patterns. This meditation is an opportunity to release what no longer serves you, reconnect with peace, love, and clarity, and realign with the light & grounded energy that already exists within you. With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: QuinceTimeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🧘 This is our very first Yoga Nidra session together. Yoga Nidra (also known as yogic sleep) is a restorative meditation practice, which helps guide the body into a deep state of relaxation, while the mind remains aware.  It’s a powerful practice to help regulate the nervous system, release tension in the body and mind, and guide you into that delicate space between wakefulness and sleep (perfect for healing and subconscious reprogramming).  During this practice, we’ll move through a gentle yet swift &  rhythmic  body scan, at a pace that maintains awareness, while allowing the body to fully surrender. This helps keep the mind lightly engaged, supporting that dreamlike state that Yoga Nidra is known for. Throughout the meditation, we also work with balancing energy throughout the body with the breath, by bringing awareness to both the left and right hemispheres individually, and then together as one.  We will close our practice with a peaceful visualization under the vast night sky, where you can connect deeply with your personal intention, or sankalpa. It is best to do this practice lying down, or if you wish to nap or sleep after. Take a deep breath, and allow yourself to graciously receive this healing practice. ♡ With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: QuinceTimeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: ShopifyEverything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🐚 This practice was created with the sole intention to bring you back to the now. In 2010, Harvard University researchers found that “a wandering mind is an unhappy mind." So often, our suffering isn’t coming from what’s happening right now… it’s coming from the past we’re replaying or the future we’re anticipating. This meditation gently guides you out of that mental noise, and back into the purity of now. Through a simple & immersive visualization, you’ll be invited to fully experience the present moment, not just understand it conceptually, but actually feel what it’s like to be here. Beyond the ego, beyond the timelines, memories and future worries. To be grounded in your body. To be connected to your breath. To exist without needing to go anywhere else. With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪐This meditation is a safe landing for when you’re feeling burnt out, overwhelmed, or emotionally overstimulated. So often, even during rest or meditation, we’re still trying to do something. This practice is different. Here, you’re invited to do nothing. To listen to your body, and give it whatever it needs. This gentle meditation is an invitation to soften, to slow down, and to meet yourself with grace and compassion when you’re at capacity. It’s spacious, grounding, and created with lots of love and compassion, to help you reconnect back with your true self. With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind Join me on⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care, all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🫧 During this meditation, we move through the 4–7–8 breathing pattern together. This particular breathing pattern is proven to help shift the body out of survival mode and into a more relaxed and calm state of peace and ease.  This is a moderate guidance meditation, meaning you’ll have space to breathe at your own pace, with gentle cues to keep you grounded and on track. This practice is soothing, spacious, and deeply healing for the mind, body, and soul, created to help you release stress, anxiety, or overwhelm, and gently guide you back to yourself. With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

UPDATED⛰️We are all deeply worthy of the life we desire. Success, health, abundance, love, all of it is available to us. Yet so often, we find ourselves caught in pushing, forcing, and striving. These patterns keep us in a state of survival, and disconnected from our ability to receive. This meditation brings you back to your core, reminding you that you are worthy of a beautiful and fulfilling life, without needing to prove or earn it. This is an active meditation, where we move through reflective questions and affirmations, while creating space to truly feel and experience the positivity that you are calling into your future. With love, Jo __ Explore more from A Zen Mind ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⏳ Patience is a practice. During this meditation, we focus on cultivating the energy of patience, softening the urge to rush, control outcomes, or jump to conclusions. These patterns often keep us in cycles of urgency and reactivity, until we bring more conscious awareness to them.  Through a simple visualization, you’ll be guided to create space. Space for things to breathe, unfold, and resolve in their own time. We shift into the energy of acceptance, ease, and flow, releasing tension, urgency, and the need to force what isn’t ready. As we close the practice, we anchor in a beautiful, simple mantra: “slowly… slowly… slowly…” A reminder of what true patience feels like. With love, Jo — Explore more from A Zen Mind azenmindglobal.com Join me on Instagram Ad-free + extended episodes on Patreon Join the email list  — This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌊This sleep meditation was created to help you release the day and drift into deep, restorative rest. We begin with a gentle 4-7-8 breathing rhythm to slow the body, followed by a soothing body scan guided by the natural rhythm of ocean waves. This meditation is spacious, slow, and soothing for the mind, body, and soul.  Listen to the extended 1 hour version on Patreon ⁠ With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind *This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🔄This practice is an invitation to reconnect with the natural rhythm of life.  The gentle ebb and flow of release and renewal. In order to receive what is new, we must first be willing to let go of what we have been holding. In this meditation, we move through breath-cued affirmations that guide you into the conscious exchange of releasing what no longer serves you and opening to more positive and aligned energy. With each breath, we soften the grip, clear space within the heart, body and mind, and return to a place of balance and harmony. A grounding and restorative meditation to support letting go, healing, and welcoming new energy into your life. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind *This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🙏 This morning affirmation practice is a beautiful way to begin your day grounded in gratitude and positivity. What we focus on expands, and gratitude is one of the highest frequencies we can embody. When we lean into it, we naturally begin to shift the energy of our entire day. In this meditation, we move through 15 “I am” style gratitude affirmations along with gentle breathwork and full-body awareness to help you embody the frequency of appreciation, peace, bliss, and happiness. A simple and powerful practice to start your morning and reconnect with the small moments that make life meaningful. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind *This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🔮This meditation has become a go-to in my personal practice and is truly one of my favorite ways to begin the day. During this 10 minute meditation, we move through a simple visualization exercise where you are gently guided into your future, both visually and emotionally. Neuroscience shows that the brain does not clearly distinguish between a vividly imagined experience and a real one. When you regularly visualize a future outcome and feel it in your body, your brain begins wiring itself toward that reality. When you repeatedly see something, feel it, and emotionally experience it as real, your mind begins to orient your decisions, behaviors, and attention toward creating it. This meditation helps you do exactly that. For best results, listen to this meditation or practice its visualization daily, and allow yourself to step into the future you are creating. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind *This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💚 During this loving practice, we focus on opening, activating, balancing, and harmonizing the energy of the heart chakra. Through gentle awareness and breath, we allow ourselves to soften into love, compassion, forgiveness, and emotional harmony. The heart chakra is a natural and powerful center of connection, and it supports our ability to give and receive love freely, to connect deeply with ourselves and others, and to live with empathy, openness, and trust. When this energy center is balanced, we exist in a state of inner peace, feel more connected, and move in alignment with the natural flow of kindness, acceptance, and understanding. This practice includes visualization and affirmations. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind *This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

✨ If you are new to EFT Tapping Download the free guide here. This EFT meditation is designed for moments of anxiety, mental overwhelm, or when your thoughts feel like they are moving faster than you can keep up. We begin tapping right away and move through 4 intentional rounds, using affirmations that help you recognize what you are feeling, allow it to be there without resistance, and gently guide your mind and body into a calmer, more regulated state. EFT Tapping works by combining light acupressure with focused awareness. As you tap on specific points, you send signals of safety to the brain, helping to reduce the stress response and regulate the nervous system. This can lower emotional intensity, slow racing thoughts, and create space for clarity without needing to “fix” anything. This practice focuses on meeting yourself where you are, letting your body settle naturally, and allowing calm to return on its own - without forcing anything. A perfect way to step out of the cycle of overthinking and back into your body & into the present. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind *This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☕️ This meditation is a little different than what we usually do. It’s an invitation into comfort, warmth, and slowing down in a way that feels genuinely nourishing.This practice is perfect for moments when you need a soft landing. You’re encouraged to make this meditation your own. That might look like a warm beverage, cozy clothes, dim lighting, or simply settling into a space that feels safe and easy for you. We begin this practice with gentle movement followed by stillness, but as always, only do what feels comfortable and supportive for you. There is no right way to experience it. Just meet yourself where you are and let comfort unfold naturally. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind *This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌤️ This meditation is a gentle practice for moments when your mind feels caught in worry, overthinking, or “what if” scenarios. Instead of trying to fight your thoughts, we shift your attention toward the best possible outcome and allow your body to experience what it feels like when things work out in your favor. During this practice, you’ll be guided to soften the grip of anxious thinking, reconnect with your breath, and welcome the possibility that things can unfold smoothly and with ease. By focusing on the best case scenario, you begin to retrain your mind to meet uncertainty with calm rather than fear. This is a supportive meditation you can return to anytime you need reassurance, perspective, and a moment of steady grounding in the present. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only, and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🍃This meditation is a gentle somatic practice where we tune into the body and explore what it truly feels like to be safe being you. The mind–body connection is incredibly powerful, and when we learn how to listen to the body and turn inward, it offers so much insight, clarity, and wisdom. During this practice, we’ll bring awareness to physical sensations, emotions, and the nervous system, creating space to feel supported and at ease within yourself. As you move through this meditation, you’ll begin to build a deeper sense of safety in your body and nervous system, allowing you to strengthen your relationship with yourself, create more  self-trust, and show up with more compassion, presence, and self-love in your daily life. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☁️This practice is one of my recent favorite breathing techniques for calming the nervous system quickly and effectively. The physiological sigh (also known as cyclic sighing) involves two inhales through the nose, followed by a slow extended exhale through the mouth. It’s a simple yet powerful way to bring your body back into a state of regulation.  This is a great practice if you’re feeling anxious, overstimulated, overwhelmed, or just needing to come back into your body. Read more about Cyclic Sighing here.  This breathwork practice is intended for educational and relaxation purposes only and is not a substitute for medical or mental health care. If you have any respiratory, cardiovascular, or medical conditions, or if you experience dizziness, discomfort, or distress at any point, discontinue the practice and consult a qualified healthcare professional. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💤We could all use a little more self-love. This sleep meditation is a gentle practice designed to infuse loving, compassionate energy into your being as you drift off to sleep. We begin by settling the breath with a calming 4–6 breathing pattern, creating a sense of safety and comfort as the nervous system unwinds. After fifteen minutes of gentle guidance, the practice transitions into soothing “I am” affirmations, followed by several minutes of calm music to help you drift off to sleep.  This meditation helps you release the day, soften into compassion, and naturally drift into sleep. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪄This is a short, daily meditation created to help you consciously elevate your state of being. Our state of being is the reflection of our thoughts plus emotion, embodied. And when we attune them intentionally, our outer world inevitably begins to match. In just 8 minutes, you’ll choose an energy, a feeling, or a mantra, and allow it to move through your entire body, elevating your state of being.  Over time, this becomes a powerful way to align your energy with what you want to experience and attract. Simple, intentional, and easy to return to whenever you need it. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌀This is a full-body chakra healing meditation designed to gently bring your entire energy system back into balance. During this practice, we move slowly through each chakra, honoring its role and offering it presence, care, and intention. Rather than forcing change, this meditation creates space for alignment to happen naturally. You’ll be guided through each chakra, while still having plenty of open time to feel, reflect, and direct your own healing energy inward. This practice is an invitation to listen to your body and restore harmony from the inside out. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💓This meditation is an invitation to open your heart more. More gratitude, more love, and more of what is still finding its way to you.  So often, gratitude is focused on what we already have, or what has already happened. But during this practice, we expand it forward - toward the people you have yet to meet, the connections that will surprise you, the moments that will soften you, and the life that is still unfolding in all the unexpected ways.  This practice centers around embodied gratitude, allowing appreciation, hope, and love to extend beyond the present moment and into the future, helping you to reconnect with possibility, trust in timing, and the feeling that something good is always on its way.  This is the perfect practice for when you want to feel grounded, hopeful and open. For when you want to remember that life is still moving toward you - and there is always more to be grateful for. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪼This 10 minute morning affirmation practice is an invitation to shift out of effort, pressure, and unconscious struggle, and into pure, blissful ease.  So often, we move through our days assuming that things must be hard in order to be meaningful or productive. This meditation offers a different perspective, rooted in openness, trust, and the willingness to let things unfold with more ease. During this practice, we will move through affirmations that gently rewire the belief that you have to push, force, or grind in order for things to work out. Instead, we create space for flow, support, and smoother outcomes by softening resistance and staying open to how simple things can actually be. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💭This three-part breath is one of my favorite ways to calm the nervous system in an easy, soft, and practical way, as we create safety, rhythm, and ease through the breath. This practice was inspired by a question I was recently asked: what would help you feel just 1% better in this moment? It’s a simple yet profound return to your inner world, your needs, and your ability to offer yourself exactly that. This practice is an invitation into gentle, embodied intention through the breath. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💆So many of our practices here focus on cultivating specific energy, but this practice is a little different. This is an invitation to sit with yourself, exactly as you are, without guidance, without a specific goal or intention. Rather than trying to create or shift anything, this space allows you to rest in presence and find comfort within your own inner world. We begin with a short period of gentle guidance to help you arrive in your body and settle into the moment. From there, you’ll be held by music alone for four minutes (no guidance, no instructions) just open space to let this practice become whatever you need it to be. We then close the practice with soft guidance. This is a practice of pure presence, inviting you to come exactly as you are. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌟This meditation is part of the new Abundance Series, a collection of practices designed to cultivate and expand into different forms of abundance in your life. This is an active meditation, where we focus on abundance in the form of energy, enthusiasm, inspiration, and motivation. This is a powerful practice for self-empowerment, reconnecting with your inner drive, and fully showing up for what you’re creating - expanding far beyond the practice itself. This is a perfect meditation if you are searching for energy that empowers you to remain consistent, motivated, and inspired to achieve your goals and formulate new ideas and presence in your life. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌌This meditation is in honor of the new year, but has been created for you to return to again and again, whenever you want to reconnect with the energy of your divine, future self.  This practice begins with opening the heart and resting the nervous system, allowing you to feel safe and worthy enough to hold the life you envision.  During this practice, you’ll be guided beyond your current sense of self, and into the wider field of unlimited potential that exists all around you. Where timelines soften, limitations dissipate, and the version of you that already exists on the other side becomes easier to feel, access, and embody. This meditation is rooted in sensation, presence, and embodied awareness, and infused with so much love and empowerment, from my heart to yours. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

➰With the end of the year upon us, this meditation is a perfect practice to offer ourselves closure, acceptance, and conscious release, and simultaneously, renewal. It allows us to honor what has been, make peace with what remains unresolved, and create space for what is ready to come next. This is an active meditation, inviting you to gently reflect and meet whatever arises with honesty and acceptance.  This meditation is a timeless practice that can be used at the close of any chapter - a season, a relationship, a phase of life, etc.  At the end of the meditation, you’ll be offered an additional five minutes of uninterrupted space to rest, reflect, or continue integrating, if you choose. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🫂This meditation is a practice in self compassion, inner safety, and inner kindness. This practice is meant to instill safety and presence within the nervous system, which encourages you to truly feel safe and embodied in the affirmations that follow. During this meditation you’ll be reminded that you are so deeply deserving of the things you want in life, and that the world needs more of you and your greatness.  This is a loving and gentle reminder that you are safe to soften into your own presence, and extend the love, compassion, and recognition to yourself that you so deeply deserve. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🫆This meditation is a light hearted practice, and a return to your own inner voice, intuition, and deepest self knowing -  especially in the small, everyday moments. Rather than offering answers or perspective, this meditation simply creates space for your answers to surface naturally. We begin by gently reconnecting with the body and breath, followed by a series of easy, open ended, self check-in style questions that invite gentle reflection and awareness. After each question, there is intentional silence, allowing your inner voice the space to respond.  This practice is a reminder that there is no right or wrong, only deeper listening and stronger trust in your own ability to recognize what is present. An invitation to come back to yourself, and to trust what you already know. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪞Imagine how much would shift if you truly believed that everything you want in this life wants you too… If you’re new to EFT, download our FREE EFT Tapping Guide here.  This guided EFT tapping meditation was inspired by a practice that found me right when I needed it, and maybe it’s finding you at the right moment, too. During this session, we move through four rounds of EFT tapping to cultivate unwavering trust and belief in yourself and the life that you are creating and moving towards. This practice supports the effortless attraction of your soul’s desires, guiding you to release resistance and reconnect with what’s already moving toward you. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌞This  was inspired by anyone who might be feeling the winter blues - physically, emotionally, or energetically. This meditation is a soft, warm, soothing light bath that guides you through flowing warmth, light, love, and presence through your entire body. This meditation follows a body scan style, and is infused with layers of compassion and ease for the self. A simple way to return to your heart and body, and warm yourself from the inside out.  A reminder of how powerful it is to take time to pour into YOU. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💛 No one is immune to emotional overwhelm. Even the strongest, most composed people feel waves of emotion, pressure, and thought spirals inside. This practice is not about ridding yourself of what makes us human - rather, changing our relationship with it. During this soothing meditation, we explore the spaciousness and the calm that is beneath the surge. You’ll be guided into creating peace and stillness to coexist.  With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

✨ This meditation is a gentle return to what is real: complete and total presence. It is so easy to be pulled into the future by our goals and desires, or tangled in memories of the past. This practice guides you back into the only thing that truly exists: right now. Here, we soften into acceptance. We practice meeting life exactly as it is, without pressure or resistance, and allow ourselves to feel eternally supported by this moment. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🤍Self-forgiveness is one of the most powerful gifts we can offer ourselves. This meditation isn’t about digging up the past or reliving old moments, it’s about softening & acknowledging the parts of you that tried their best, and offering them the compassion they deserved all along. During this practice, we move through gentle reflection, inner forgiveness, and gratitude, allowing shame, regret, and self-judgment to loosen their grip.  You’ll be guided to meet old versions of yourself with understanding, to say “I forgive you,” and extend the love to your own self that you deserve.  This is a simple, soulful space to free yourself from what you’ve been carrying and step forward with clarity, compassion, and love. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🧬This is an easy 10 minute practice that you can do at any time during your day. This practice is simple in its essence, as we focus on the breath and the body, creating a deep sense of internal safety. We move through gentle grounding through the body, easy breathwork, and finish the practice with a mantra. This practice was created to help you regulate your nervous system so you can relax, think clearly, and open yourself to the inner clarity & bliss that lives within you. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☁️This practice is a soothing, nourishing  space for your mind, body, and soul, and is perfect for when you just need to relax. During this meditation, we move through gentle breathwork, a full-body release, and a simple visualization to help you drift into a state of complete inner bliss, and total body relaxation.  This practice is a soft and comforting landing, where you can float, rest, and return to yourself, without any expectation. This meditation is excellent if you’ve been carrying stress, tension, or pressure, and is perfect to be paired before you go to sleep. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

❤️‍🔥 Love and compassion are most powerful when nothing is expected in return. This 10 minute practice will guide you into cultivating a deeper sense of connection, softness, and peace, as we extend warmth, compassion, and goodwill to yourself, to loved ones, strangers, and to every being in the world. As you send kindness outward, you naturally receive it back - through the calmness in your body, and a felt sense of belonging to something bigger than yourself. This practice reconnects you with your own humanity, while helping you generate real undercurrents of peace and love in the world around you. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌄This guided visualization is part of the Inner Sanctuary series, a collection of meditative journeys created to guide you into a restorative, healing space within.  During this practice, you’ll journey to a temple on the side of a mountain, a place untouched by the daily stress, expectations, and responsibilities of your day to day life. It’s simply a space to decompress, reset, and come back to yourself.  We begin this experience with a few deep breaths, before moving into the journey. This journey includes mountain imagery, a pool scene, water sound effects, and healing music throughout.  Listen to the First Inner Sanctuary Visualization Here With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌄SLEEP VERSION: This guided visualization is part of the Inner Sanctuary series, a collection of meditative journeys created to guide you into a restorative, healing space within.  During this practice, you’ll journey to a temple on the side of a mountain, a place untouched by the daily stress, expectations, and responsibilities of your day to day life. It’s simply a space to decompress, reset, and come back to yourself.  We begin this experience with a few deep breaths, before moving into the journey. This journey includes mountain imagery, a pool scene, water sound effects, and healing music throughout. After the familiar chime, the music will gently fade out, without any guided closing, allowing you to drift off to sleep. Listen to the First Inner Sanctuary Visualization Here With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🎒This guided visualization is a practice in releasing what you can’t control and trusting what’s ahead. So much of our stress comes from trying to manage every detail, every outcome, every feeling. And while effort has its place, there comes a point where the most supportive thing you can do is step back, breathe, and hand it over. This meditation is for that moment. Whether you’ve been overthinking, carrying emotional weight, feeling pressure, or simply trying to hold everything together, this practice helps you let go of what’s heavy and trust that you’re supported, by something far greater than yourself. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪽Stress and anxiety can sometimes feel like a tug-of-war. We often convince ourselves that we shouldn’t be feeling this way, creating a negative feedback loop in our own minds. So rather than fixing, changing, or controlling this experience, during this practice we create space to simply be, to simply surrender. Sometimes the deepest healing comes from meeting yourself exactly where you are, with softness, patience, and compassion. During this practice, we’ll return to total presence, practice acceptance, and invite ourselves to gently soften and let go into this space. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🔍 What does purpose mean to you? This is an activating meditation designed for deeper reflection, both during the practice and in the days that follow. We often believe purpose is something external to be found or achieved, but this meditation is a reminder that your purpose has always lived within you. It’s simply about uncovering the layers that reveal your truth. Throughout this practice, you’ll be guided through three reflective questions, each giving you space to listen inward and reconnect with your inner guidance. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💆This meditation is a spa session for your mind. A full energetic cleanse to release the clutter, tension, and residue you’ve been carrying. During this practice, we’ll move through a gentle visualization of flushing out the mental noise & energetic residue, as we calm the nervous system, and create space for clarity and renewal.  This practice is a rejuvenating experience created to leave you feeling clear, calm, and refreshed.  With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

👟This meditation is a simple yet powerful practice in complete awareness. During this practice, you’ll train your mind to stay connected to your breath, your body, and the world around you, through mindful observation, and full body awareness.  This is a space to move with intention, to give your mind room to breathe, and to experience total presence in motion. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💾This meditation is a space for you to deepen your self belief, confidence, and self-trust - or, if you are someone who often feels self conscious or anxious in social settings.  During this practice, we use the analogy of updating your belief system like a computer - consciously releasing outdated programming, and installing new beliefs about who you truly are, and what you're capable of. The energy of this meditation is empowering and activating, helping you to step into your full confidence, authenticity, and potential. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🔱How your day unfolds depends on how you choose to see it. This practice will help you start your morning with clarity, focus, and confidence, as we visualize opportunities aligning with ease, connections flowing naturally, and everything unfolding in your favor. Begin your day with intention and step into the best version of yourself today. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☁️ This meditation is a space to gently process difficult emotions and learn to truly feel your feelings. Inspired by the many forms of loss and change we all experience, this practice reminds you that the only way out is through. We begin with grounding breathwork and a gentle body scan before turning toward the heart, observing whatever emotions are present with presence, curiosity, and care. You’ll have space to simply feel, without judgment, and allow healing to unfold naturally. Whether you need to cry, sigh, or just be still, this meditation will help you reconnect to yourself and find softness in the process of release With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌳This meditation is a perfect 5-minute break during your busy days. This meditation combines breathwork with intention setting, and is meant to serve as an easy, grounding reset for your mind, body, and energy amidst the flow of your day. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🕊️ This meditation is a divine connection with your Higher Self, the most aligned, expanded version of who you are meant to be. During this practice, I’ll guide you through three sections: connecting with the vision of your Higher Self, reflecting on three powerful questions, and dropping into the emotional body to fully embody that energy.  This experience helps you create the ultimate blueprint of your highest potential, which is, the essence of who you truly are. This meditation is a preview from the Clarity. Purpose. Alignment. Program - click here to learn more. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💪🏼Your most powerful tool is your attention. When you train your mind to return from distraction, you become truly unstoppable. This 10-minute guided meditation was designed to strengthen your focus, elevate performance, and create mental clarity. It’s a gentle but powerful practice that helps you observe your thoughts without getting lost in them, guiding your awareness back, again and again, to the present moment. Through this simple act of returning, you’ll begin to experience what true focus feels like.  Spacious, steady, and grounded. Whether you’re preparing for a big project, a workout, or just want to perform at your best, this meditation is perfect for your focus. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌊This meditation was created with so much tenderness and love. This space is meant to help you unwind, release tension, and return to stillness. Whether you’ve had a long, stressful day, or maybe just the weight of everyday life is on your shoulders - this practice is a beautiful way to go deep, recenter, and feel renewed.  This meditation includes a countdown and a guided count up, as we move through a full body release, letting go of mental noise, emotional heaviness, and physical stress/tension. This is a soothing space for the mind, body and soul. Exactly what you need. :) With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌿This meditation is perfect for busy days, early mornings, or anytime you need to pause and come back to your center. We begin with simple, unguided breathing,  giving you space to be entirely present and connected to your inner world. From there, you’ll move through a loving body scan to ground deeper into the present moment. This practice invites presence, mindfulness, and a sense of ease and calm within. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🕯️What does it mean to really hold space? During this practice, we use the concept of holding space as a container for presence, safety, and surrender. So often we move through life carrying our roles, responsibilities, and masks we’ve learned to wear. But here, you are lovingly invited to set it all down. In this space, you are safe to simply be. To process what’s in your body, your mind, and your emotional field. You are safe to experience whatever arises, as this meditation is space for you, and only you.  With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🤗Kindness is so powerful, and the type of energy can shift everything, and create a ripple effect far beyond what we can see. Think of a time when someone's genuine kindness brightened your day - now multiply that. That’s what this meditation is for.  This practice was created to help you connect with that same energy within yourself, to cultivate kindness toward others, and to remember how simple it can be to make a meaningful impact in the world. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🕊 Your breath is so powerful. It’s the infinite thread that always brings you back to the present moment. This guided breathwork meditation is a beautiful journey inward, moving through a sequence of noticing, deepening, and structuring the breath. We close with a 4-2-6 breath pattern, guiding you into a state of focus, peace, and inner calm. This practice is perfect for when you need to reconnect with yourself - get out of your head, into your body, and return to the present moment. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 📝 Check out my online Programs & Courses 🎙️ Listen Ad Free 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💫This meditation was created to take you deep beneath the surface of everyday life. So often we get caught in the roles, titles, responsibilities, and attachments that shape the ego, without even realizing how much they pull us away from our true essence. This practice will guide you back into the space of your higher Self - a place of pure awareness, infinite possibility, and deep connection with everything around you. This practice is centered around the mantra Om Bhavam Namah - I am absolute existence. This is a deep and introspective meditation meant to guide you away from the ego, and into the most meaningful connection to the Self, and higher awareness. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🧬This meditation is infused with so much love, safety, and comfort. Our nervous system controls our state of being - and so often, we run on survival mode without even realizing it. This meditation is a sanctuary of rest and renewal, created to help down-regulate your nervous system, allowing you to access deep layers of rest & healing within.  During this practice, we focus on deep, slow breathing, affirmations, and releasing tension out of the body. This practice is a safe resting point for you to sink into whenever you need to release stress and return to your center. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

😴This luscious sleep meditation is deeply soothing, rejuvenating, and nourishing for the body, mind, and spirit. During this loving practice, we’ll create the space for your mind to slow down, your body to release the weight of the day, and your energy to settle into a state of ease and total safety. This practice includes a gentle 10–0 countdown to guide you deeper into rest, followed by two soft rounds of healing affirmations, (spoken in a quiet, spacious way) to help you naturally drift into sleep. Each affirmation is an offering of rest, safety, and renewal, gently sinking into your subconscious as you surrender to this space.  Guidance and affirmations close around the 20 minute mark, and the rest of the time is yours and yours alone, to drift off to the most peaceful, deep sleep. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

✨This meditation was created by a concept that truly changed my life - Stop Playing Small. So often, limiting beliefs and self-doubt keep us from rising into the version of ourselves we’re meant to be. In this practice, you’ll be guided to reflect, release, and shift your mindset, breaking down barriers, returning to your center, and aligning with your next level self.  This is a powerful and transformative meditation designed to expand your perspective, strengthen your belief in yourself, and open the door to new possibilities. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💭So often our minds become cluttered, whether it's from absorbing the thoughts and beliefs of others, or carrying the weight of what's happening in our own lives. This meditation is a practice of creating space and clarity within our body, mind, and hearts. This meditation follows a structure that includes guidance, 2 minutes of unguided space, and closing guidance - you also have the option of 10 minutes of just music at the end, if you wish to stay in this space longer.  Use this meditation anytime you need to strengthen your focus, release mental clutter or overwhelm, and find space within.  With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

💓Love can be a strange feeling at times. It may feel difficult to access, hard to hold, and even challenging to share. This meditation is an invitation to return to the simple essence of love within your heart.  During this practice, you’ll be guided to focus on something you love, and allow that feeling to expand. Through your body, and into the world. This space is meant for embodying the pure frequency of love - receiving it, and being it.  This meditation is perfect for you if you're ready to open your heart, feel more love deeply, and invite more love into your  life and the world around you. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

😊 This meditation made me feel so deeply happy. This 10 minute morning practice is a beautiful reminder that each day we get to choose what energy we want to step forward with - and there is so much in this life to be deeply grateful and happy for.  During this practice, we connect with the energy of pure joy, happiness, lightness, and gratitude, cultivating it from deep within. Carrying it within your presence throughout the entire day ahead, as you move into this day shining from the inside out. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🧭 This meditation is all about learning to trust your inner compass. So often, we get stuck in logic, fear, or the urge to control outcomes… but beneath all of that lies our deepest inner knowing. When we stop forcing what doesn’t feel right, we learn to surrender to what lives in alignment with our greater truth.  In this practice, you’ll be guided to pause, return to your body, and listen closely to the signals, values, and intentions that live within. By creating space to connect with this deep wisdom, you’ll strengthen the trust in your own self. This is a meditation to come back to whenever you feel uncertain, pulled in different directions, or simply need to remind yourself that you already hold the answers. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🚪 Every ending opens the door to a new beginning. This meditation was created to support you as you step into your next chapter - one rooted in intention, trust, and expansive possibility.  During this practice, we will move through a grounding visualization, envisioning a doorway that symbolizes your transition into this new season of life. On the other side, you’ll embody the energy you wish to carry forward, aligning with the law of creation and attracting the life that is meant for you.  This practice is an invitation to let go of the old & embrace the new with open arms. You may also wish to use this meditation at the start of your day, week, or month! With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☁️This practice was born from something I have been deeply craving - complete and unconditional rest. So often we’re taught that rest must be earned, when in truth, it’s an essential part of living and something we deserve to integrate into our daily rhythm. With this in heart, I created this meditation as a soft sanctuary of space,  a practice that invites you to release, to breathe, and to simply be (however that may look for you).  The meditation begins with a few minutes of gentle guidance, helping you slow down and arrive fully in your body. From there, the practice opens into silence and sound, offering you uninterrupted time to drift inward, to rest, to reset, and to reconnect with yourself. This is a nourishing space for your body, mind, and spirit, and is a gentle, cozy landing place for your soul. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

☮As I created this meditation, I realized it had been far too long since I last crafted a practice devoted solely to inner peace and calm. This meditation is exactly that,  a gentle return home to stillness. During this practice, we’ll drop deep into the body and heart space, accessing the infinite reservoir of peace that exists far beyond the physical. Beyond the noise, there is stillness - always. This is a heart-centered practice you can return to daily, whenever you need to reconnect with that quiet, unwavering calm within. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⏳ So often in life, we become so focused on the destination (outcomes, achievements, milestones, etc.), that we forget to enjoy the journey that is unfolding. This meditation offers a soft, grounding space to gently reconnect with the present moment, to appreciate each step, and to invite gratitude for the path as it is. This is a gentle mindset meditation that moves through thoughtful self-reflection,  inviting you to notice parts of your journey that might be overlooked when the focus is only on the destination. It’s a loving practice designed to help you slow down and come home to the now, where life is truly happening. This meditation is meant to inspire your mindset moving forward. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (Custom Meditations) 💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🔥This meditation is about the power of choosing your mindset - your thoughts, your emotions, and your experience. This practice is perfect for the morning, as you begin your day, or if you are currently facing an obstacle or task that requires courage or empowered action.  During this practice we explore the power of your breath, your presence, and your choice. It’s a reminder that even in uncertain moments, you have the strength within to choose how you move through it. Here, we gently inquire on who we want to be, how we want this day to unfold, and how we wish to meet whatever lies ahead. Let this be a space to choose peace over worry, trust over fear, and empowered action over doubt. A loving and empowering reminder that you are capable of so much With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Custom Meditations  💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪷This is a short and powerful 10-minute affirmation meditation designed to bring you into full energetic balance through positive, loving self talk. In this practice, we gently move through each of the seven chakras, offering grounded, embodied affirmations to bring harmony, presence, and alignment to your entire system. This meditation is structured with 2 unique affirmations per chakra, repeated twice, with space thereafter to repeat in your own voice and energy.  This meditation is a beautiful way to reset, align your energy, and reconnect to your highest self. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Custom Meditations  💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🌧️This gentle, soul-soothing sleep meditation is a space to return to your inner world, release the weight & energy of the day, and surrender into deep, restorative rest. With the soft sounds of rain and a nourishing body scan, we’ll invite cleansing energy to move through every part of your body,  melting tension, washing away the day, and opening space for peace, gratitude, and deep renewal. Rain sounds begin at 6 minutes, and continue for the remainder of the episode. Guidance stops at 14 minutes, so the remainder of the episode is nothing but healing music and gentle rain sounds.  Let this practice be your loving nighttime ritual.  This episode has only one advertisement in the beginning.  With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Custom Meditations  💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

✨This practice was inspired by a photo I saw on Instagram, titled “How It Feels Being Me”...  this simple and powerful meditation invites you to see yourself clearly,  not through the lens of flaws or form, but through light. In this practice, you’re guided back to your truth. A space where your reflection is luminous, pure, and rooted in source. This is a simple practice to remember the truth of who you are,  a radiant being in this world. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Custom Meditations  💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🪙 Whether we realize it or not, many of our beliefs about money & wealth are shaped by things that may not have been in our control - our society, upbringing, & environment can quietly limit our capacity to receive.  Through this practice, we gently release old beliefs and tune into the frequency of wealth, abundance, and financial freedom. We focus on feeling safe, open, and worthy of receiving, not just money, but overflow, wealth, and ease.  By shifting your energy and self-concept around money, you begin to align with a state of true abundance, from the inside out. During this space, we will ground into the body, move into deep gratitude from the heartspace, and move into a series of embodied affirmations.  This is your space to feel abundant in your nature, safe in your body, and open to all that is meant for you - and more.  With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 🥰Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Custom Meditations  💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🫧When we’re triggered, our nervous system often reacts before we even realize it. While trying to protect us, but sometimes pulling us deeper into pain, fear, or old patterns. So this meditation is a soft pause, and a space to come back to the breath, settle the body, and reconnect with the calm wisdom of your higher self. This practice helps you create space between the emotion and the action. It’s in this space that we shift: from reacting out of pain to responding from love. Each time we pause in these moments, we gently rewire the mind, creating new pathways of awareness, peace, and conscious choice. This meditation is perfect to return to any time you feel overwhelmed, emotionally charged, or in need of a reset. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 🥰Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Custom Meditations  💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices