Some of us find meditation a bit confusing at first, that’s why it can be helpful to get yourself a guided meditation to follow along to. It’s easy to wonder whether you’re doing it right or wrong when you’re doing it by yourself.
One of the easiest ways to use guided meditations is to download them onto your phone so you can simply lay back and pop your headphones in. I’m a big fan of audiobooks, and I find them a much more convenient way to consume books and guides rather than having to put a CD into a player. Signing up for Amazon’s Audible library give a you 30 days free audiobooks access, of if you’re a Prime member, you get 90 days free.
What Are The Benefits Of Guided Meditations?
Guided meditations are beneficial to many because all you have to do is listen, and follow along loosely. If you’re a beginner to meditation, it makes sense to try guided meditations first. However here’s some of the benefits to you overall emotional health;
- Relieves stress
- Focus on the present
- Improve your patience
- Improve your focus
- Reduce negative emotions
- Improve your creativity
- Improve self awareness
And the list goes on and on. Most of us feel as if we don’t have enough time in the day to meditate, and even the thought of doing it can seem kind of weird. Meditation is a practise that has been used for thousands of years, but over time it has largely remained in the east. However, it’s never been easier to incorporate guided meditations into your daily routine.
So in this post, we’re going to look at the best guided meditations on Amazon so you can download them straight to you phone. These are the 6 that I would recommend you download yourself as they are beginner friendly and easy to get into.
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1. Guided Meditation By The Beach
The guided meditation from Twyla Paris is one of the most relaxing on Amazon in my opinion. This guided meditation audiobook contains seven 45 minute sessions of guided meditations with beach sounds of the ocean. Sounds of water are widely known to be relaxing and can help you to focus into a deep meditative state. With seven sessions, they can be used for each day of the week.
2. Evoking The Devine Ground Of Your Being
Evoking the devine ground of your being is another very relaxing guided meditations, this time from spiritual teacher Adyashanti. As you can imagine, this audiobook is very spiritual and immersive. This audiobook focuses on bringing out your inner peace by using specific ‘evocation’ practises. Join Adyashanti and go deep into four relaxing guided meditations.
3. Guided Meditations For Self-Healing
Jack Kornfield, meditation teacher and psychologist, brings us guided meditations from a different angle. Jack’s guided meditations are designed to help you heal from psychical and mental pain. Jack presents three powerful meditations alongside describing the importance of meditation for self-healing.
4. Guided Meditations For Anxiety
The next guided meditations on the list are very simple but effective ones. With over an hour of guided meditations, this audiobook focuses on relieving anxiety and stress through gentle narration. This isn’t the most comprehensive guided meditation audio book, but it is relaxing and to the point.
5. A Guided Meditation
A Guided Meditation is an audiobook made up from two different guided meditations. The narrator, Glenn, talks you through the first meditation using visualisation. One the second mediation, he walks you through a powerful self-healing visualisation meditation. Both track on this audiobook are 30 minutes long and very immersive. Gentle and subtle affirmations ease their way into the calm background music making the meditation a very relaxing.
6. Buddhism For Busy People
Buddhism For Busy People is a refreshing audiobook that gets straight to the point. The narrator guides us through a number of shorter meditations for ‘busy people’, and goes into detail about Tibetan buddhism. Each guided meditation has a different theme, from mindfulness to compassion. This audiobook is a favourite to those who want bite sized medications that can be done one the way to and from work, or when they have a spell of free time.
Best Guided Meditations For Sleep
Guided meditations aren’t just for when you need to relax during the day. They can also be useful for when you’re trying to sleep. The best part about guided meditations is, you don’t need to do anything except listen and immerse yourself in the sounds.
Here’s some of the best guided meditations for when you want to relax into a deep sleep;
1. Deep Sleep Meditation
Deep Sleep Meditation does exactly what it says on the tin. This audiobook is a good one for beginners to try out. This guided meditation focuses around the idea of hypnosis, or more specifically, self-hypnosis. With immersive relaxing sounds, you can find yourself drifting off into a deep sleep listening to this audiobook.
2. Lucid Dreaming
Lucid Dreaming is a beautiful crafted sleep meditation audiobook. Charlie Morley narrates each track with a focus on mindful sleeping and dozing. The audio consists of binaural technology and hypnosis scripts. Whilst this isn’t strictly a ‘getting to sleep audiobook’, it can also be used for lengthy dozing as you slip into a light hypnosis by following along.
Have a favourite guided meditation of your own? Leave it in the comments below!
Sean C is a writer, passionate about improving one’s self by maintaining healthy habits and doing the things that make life more meaningful.