Relaxation Archive

Relaxing the Mind with a Home Base Meditation Script

Find rest and relaxation by anchoring your awareness in the home base of your breath. Download this script for personal use or to guide others.

Discover Deep Stillness With This Ocean Meditation

You are not any single wave, but the entirety of the ocean. Use this guided ocean meditation to discover the deep stillness at the heart of your true nature.

A Standing Meditation Script for Presence and Grounding

Deepen your present moment awareness with this standing meditation script. Use this script for yourself or when guiding others to be more mindful.

Soft Belly Breathing To Invite In Calm

Soft belly breathing helps calm the central nervous system, returning the body to balance and ease. Try it or teach it with this guided meditation script.

A Body Scan Script for Grounding

Experience a deep sense of grounded presence with this intermediate guided body scan script. Use this in your personal practice or when guiding others.

6 Guided Group Meditation Scripts

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

“Simply Stopping” Guided Meditation Script

Simply Stopping. This is a simple guided meditation script that reminds us that we can stop whatever we’re doing & harness awareness to become more present.

A Meditation for Boundaries: Imagining Your Inner Land

Fortify your inner landscape in this meditation for boundaries. Download this free meditation script for personal practice or to guide others.

A Sleep Visualization For Deep Rest

Relax the mind with a sleep visualization to help you settle toward sleep. Use this guided meditation script to help yourself or others get a good night’s rest.

Short Body Scan Meditation Script

Explore the benefits of a 2 minute body scan script. Ground your body and mind with this short body scan meditation script. Perfect for daily practice.

An Advanced Body Scan Meditation Script

Observe tension and relaxation in the body with this 10-minute body scan meditation script for advanced practitioners. For personal or professional use.

Mindful Walking Script

Mindful Walking Script. Many meditation traditions include walking as part of the practice. Moving is a powerful way to quiet inner chatter.

Deep Breathing

Deep Breathing practices can influence your autonomic nervous system and relax your body, & improve your immune system. Why is this important?

Easing the Mind

Easing the Mind. Although you cannot always control the mind, you can encourage it to be more at ease. Learning to do this will help you respond rather…

Extending the Exhale

Extending the Exhale. The relationship between the breath, the body, and the mind go both ways. By breathing more deeply, you are telling your body that…

Relax, Accept, Break Habits, Learn And Be Happy

Relax, Accept, Break Habits, Learn & Be Happy. If you want that then this is the right guided meditation script for you to do. First is get relaxed!

The Rhythm Of The Breath Flowing Through The Body

Rhythm of the Breath Flowing through the Body. With this meditation, you’ll become attuned and comfortable in following the natural rhythm of the breath.

Guided Meditation Script: Three Mindful Breaths

Three Mindful Breaths. This is a simple guided meditation script to quickly allow the body to relax and find calm and peace in the midst of stressors.

Deep State Of Relaxation For Chronic Pain

Deep State of Relaxation for Chronic Pain. This soothing meditation script guides the listener toward a more relaxed state when pain makes it hard to fall asleep.

5 Guided Meditation Scripts for Teachers

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

7 Meditation Scripts for Kids

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

Visualization Of A Beach For Well Being

A guided meditation script that uses the imagery of a beach to support relaxation and a sense of well-being.

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation

Seven free mindfulness exercises for relaxation, plus a look at the relaxation response, what gets in the way of relaxing, and five simple habits that may help.

Mindfulness Exercises for Groups

Mindfulness exercises for groups are tools we can use to strengthen our sense of community, wellbeing, concentration, and more individual and collective.

Balance: A Mindfulness App Made Just For You

Finding “the right way” to meditate can be challenging. Though these ancient practices have become more or less mainstream in this modern day, practicing mindfulness is a lot easier said than done by using a mindfulness app. At the same time that mindfulness techniques are rising in collective consciousness, so too is the growing number […]

8 Mindfulness Exercises for Beginners (+Infographic)

8 mindfulness exercises for beginners +infographic. Simple meditations to reduce stress & improve sleep. Mindful breathing, body scans, and more.

OM Chanting @ 528Hz

Feel the energy flowing through your body with the sounds of our OM Chanting at the frequency of 528 Hz. More than 3 hours for meditation and yoga practice.

Bells of Mindfulness

Sister Dang Nhiem shows how to invite the sound of the bell, and how to cultivate peacefulness when we hear noises.

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Listening Meditation

prAna Mindful Living Ambassador Mark Coleman leads a 6-minute meditation focused on listening to help us live in the moment.

Buddhist Meditation: Relax Mind And Body

Extended meditation music with a Buddhist background designed to help you relax your mind and body and better focus on your meditation practice.

Native American Music for Healing

Nine hours of Native American flute music from Nu Meditation Music, which you might play during meditation or rest.

Untold Depths

An hour of quiet meditation music, Untold Depths by Christopher Lloyd Clarke, shared by The Guided Meditation Site as background for meditation or sleep.

Guided Voice Meditation – Soothing Hypnosis

A guided voice meditation with ambient and new age music, by Jason Stephenson.

Gentle Ocean Waves For Relaxation & Sleep

20-minute gentle ocean waves for relaxation & sleep sound. Many people find the sound of calm seas a pleasant backdrop for meditation, yoga, relaxation, and winding down for sleep.

Surrender Meditation (Letting Go of Control)

Jason Stephenson leads the surrender meditation (letting go of control) to promote better sleep, peaceful meditation before sleep and inspired living.

Mindfulness of Sounds

A mindfulness meditation on sound, with a free PDF worksheet. You might rest your attention on the sounds around you, without needing to identify them.

Body Scan Meditation Worksheet

A body scan meditation is a simple way to notice and ease tension. Get into a comfortable position. “Scan” your body from head to toe, taking note of any tight or tense areas.

Body Meditation

Body meditation is a practice of resting attention on whichever physical sensation is most noticeable, then following it as it shifts. Includes a free worksheet.

Basic Relaxation Meditation

A basic relaxation meditation that invites physical and mental relaxation, one area of the body at a time. It may help ease the effects of stress on the body and mind.

Shadow Exercise

Use the free shadow exercise worksheet to help open up the hidden depths of your creative self. It can also be used to begin the journey of self-discovery.

Self-Hypnosis

Self-hypnosis is a guided relaxation and visualization technique. This free worksheet walks through one routine and its history, and it complements, rather than replaces, professional care.

Ho’oponopono: Hawaiian Prayer + Binaural Beats

A Hoʻoponopono meditation: a Hawaiian prayer of reconciliation and forgiveness, recorded with theta binaural beats for relaxation.

Progressive Relaxation

A ten-to-fifteen-minute tension-and-release practice that moves from the feet to the face, with a worksheet to follow. Many people find it helps them settle for rest.

Witnessing the Body

This mindfulness exercise is a guide for practicing the body scan, whereby you will be surfing your body to be aware when it is happy or when it is not.

Mindful Walking

Ground-Surfing (Mindful Walking). Use this portable method of getting present when you are in transition & feeling anxious as you walk from place to place.

The Power of Belly Breathing

Belly breathing uses the diaphragm, so the abdomen rises and falls with each breath. This worksheet walks through a short practice for sensing the difference.

Relax and Wind Down

Relax and wind down at the end of a busy day by trying these 4 steps. Don’t get stuck in social media or in front of screens; have a gratitude practice.

Pan Flute & Native Flute Music

Pan flute and native flute music from Nu Meditation Music, a YouTube channel of long meditation music videos, to play during your daily meditation.

Deep Trance Relaxation (Rain City Dreams)

This guided sleep meditation is intended for deep trance relaxation, helping you to fall asleep into the lucid dream world of a meditative rainy city.

3 Hour Reiki Healing Music

Three hours of Reiki healing music, ideal as meditation music, calming music, soothing music, and relaxing music that encourages a state of Zen.

Rain Sounds – 10 Hours

Listen to 10 hours of non-stop rain sounds for meditation, yoga, massage, or winding down at night.

Indian Meditation: Yoga, Flute, Relaxing Background Music

Indian flute music for yoga and meditation from Nu Meditation Music, a YouTube channel of long meditation music videos.

Guided Meditation – Blissful Deep Relaxation

This guided meditation is meant to ease you gently into deep relaxation and a calm, meditative state of mind. Did you like this Blissful Deep Relaxation guided meditation? Explore our free mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, mindfulness worksheets and more. The […]

Guided meditation – Resting In One’s Own Gaze [Audio]

Guided meditation – body and mind: Resting in one’s own gaze, by Akincano Marc Weber: [ai_playlist id=”200075″] About Akincano Marc Weber: Akincano Marc Weber (Switzerland) is a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. He learned to sit still in the early eighties as a Zen practitioner and later joined monastic life in Ajahn Chah’s tradition where he […]

Seeing With The Body [Video]

A Dhamma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, published December 17, 2014, on how we cling to our suffering and on looking at suffering in and of itself, starting with the breath.

Relaxing Chinese Instrumental Music

Listen to this relaxing Chinese instrumental music as background music for relaxation. Includes Chinese meditation music, Ehru, Guzheng, Koto, and Oriental music. We’re focused on creating a beautiful Collection of Long Music Videos for you to relax and enjoy in your daily Meditation.In Nu Meditation Music you will find calming, soothing tunes (most are ethereal […]

Native American Indian Meditation: Shamanic Flute Music

Native American flute meditation music from the NuMeditationMusic channel, which describes it as shamanic flute, healing and calming music.

Yoga Nidra – Meditation & Guided Relaxation

A guide for practicing Yoga Nidra, an ancient form of guided meditation to support deep relaxation and touch a place of stillness, peace and insight within. Yoga Nidra “Unwind” is a complete 16 min. training script that can help you relax deeply and touch a place of deep stillness, peace and insight within. Yoga Nidra […]