A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Be Kind to Yourself: Guided Meditation for Inner Safety & Self Compassion

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

🫂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

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And as always, once the meditation begins, there will be no advertisements and no disruptions. Thank you so much for being here. Hello to this guided meditation. Take a moment to find the most comfortable position, either seated or lying down, and gently close your eyes and give yourself a few moments to fully arrive in. in this space and notice how in this moment nothing else actually exists anything before this moment is just a memory it's in the past and anything that exists beyond this moment is simply not within your control so just be here and connect with the true presence in the depth of this very moment

allowing yourself to ease into the comfort that this moment provides and how it is exactly as it is. Once you feel ready, let's begin with a deep breath in through the nose to the count of four. Exhale out through the mouth to the count of six. Sailing deeply through the nose. Exhaling fully through the mouth. Bringing yourself closer and closer. closer to your own self, to your own inner experience. Each breath, imagine your body receiving the message that you are safe right now.

You are so safe right now. Safe to feel. Safe to experience. Safe to be exactly here in your body. And just finish a few more cycles of this breath in your own time. And when you feel ready, gently allow your breath to return to a natural, easy rhythm. It would be so easy to be hard on ourselves. We judge and criticize ourselves or hold ourselves to unrealistic expectations.

And sometimes we do so without even noticing it. And somewhere along the way, there may be parts of us that start to believe that we're not worthy, that we're not good enough, that we're not deserving of the things that we so deeply desire. Those thoughts, expectations, comparisons, and judgments, they aren't really you. They're just fragments of the ego. And you are so much greater than that. You are a whole soul, a whole being with depth, intelligence, intelligence, resilience, and infinite potential. You are capable of so much and so deeply deserving, of that which you desire.

And just notice where in your body you might be feeling this, that slight sensation or recognition that, yeah, I may have been hard on myself. And if it feels comfortable for you to do so, lovingly place a hand over that space and using your breath to deliver so much love and light and acceptance into this space, letting those parts of you feel seen, letting yourself know that just because this is how it's been not mean that this is how it has to continue to be. You deserve more. You deserve so much more.

Allow yourself to truly believe that. Well let's gently move into a series of affirmations and give yourself permission to really feel each one. Imagine just like we did before delivering those words right into your own. into your body offering and presence to the spaces that could use it the most when you're ready either out loud or in your own mind repeat after me world needs more of me not less of me it is safe for me to extend kindness towards myself willing to meet myself with patience understanding and acceptance. On my own side, emotions are just a part of my human experience. They don't define me and they're safe for me to experience. I deserve love, kindness, respect,

and success just as much as anyone else. I am worthy of everything I want, without needing to overextend or prove myself. My opinion about myself matters more than anything else. I am safe in my body and in my mind, in who I am and who I'm becoming. Taking the next few moments to let these words fully move through you, noticing which one stick, and which ones might feel easier. to receive or which ones might present a bit more resistance using your breath to guide them deeper into your heart into your being and just letting it be exactly as it is feel ready take one more deep breath in

and as you do envision inhaling love and peace and compassion for yourself into your body. As you exhale, allow that same energy to release and surround you, expanding into the space around you. And in your own time, you may wish to wiggle your fingers and your toes and gently open your eyes. As you move through your day, offer yourself kindness or judgment may once have lived. Meet yourself with acceptance when you feel the urge to compare. Extend patience towards yourself. Where you once may have felt pressure, every moment is a chance for you to choose kindness towards yourself again and again, which you so deeply deserve, wishing you so much peace and so much love.