A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Become the Master of Your Mind: Guided Meditation

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

This guided meditation was created to help guide your journey, of becoming the master of your mind. In this meditation, you'll focus on becoming fully present, tuning into your body, and breath, and changing your relationship with your thoughts. One of the first and most important steps in becoming the master of your mind is to understand that you are separate from your thoughts, and emotions. They do not define, or control you. This meditation serves to elevate your awareness of your thoughts, as you consciously work to reshape your perception of your thoughts, gently acknowledging, and releasing them, as they come and go, while remaining present and grounded in the moment;  providing you with valuable tools that will encourage you to experience mindfulness in deeper and more meaningful ways.With love, Jo  🌼A Zen Mind Instagram ⭐ Join My Email List✨www.azenmindpodcast.com💖Get more meditations from A Zen Mind ☁️ Shop my favorite Meditation Cushions & Supplies 🙏Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you so much for being here. And welcome to this guided meditation. This meditation can be used as a powerful tool. As you journey towards mastering your mind. Take the next few moments to settle into a comfortable position. eliminating distractions from around you, finding your breath, and just focusing on the rhythm of the inhale and exhale. The process of mastering your mind refers to gaining and understanding over your thoughts, emotions, and mental processes. It involves cultivating a conscious awareness of your mind's activities.

and developing the ability to influence and direct your thoughts in a positive and constructive manner. Mastering your mind is not necessarily about controlling your thoughts as anything that we push down by force. We'll be guaranteed to come back up. We must embody the true essence of our oneness and understand that thoughts, experiences and emotions, both good and bad, are all a part of what it means to be a human with a conscious awareness of our life. So when you are ready, let's set a gentle intention for this time here. Repeat to yourself either silently or out loud, I set my intention to be one step closer.

becoming the master of my mind. I set my intention to be one step closer, becoming the master of my mind. Now take a moment to shift your awareness to your breath. Your breath is your best friend and is always here to bring you back to the present moment. So when your mind wanders, just gently bring your awareness back to your breath, no matter how many times you may have to do this. Your breath is here for you. Working in your favor, let's begin with a gentle body scan. Bringing your awareness to each part of your body, imagine a vibrant energy source shining down from above. Beginning at the crown of your head, Imagine it flowing down through the top of your head, into your forehead, your eyes, your cheeks, your jaw, into your neck and your shoulders, into your chest, down into your arms,

your wrists, your hands, and your fingers, melting into your ribs, your upper back, your abdomen, and your lower back, your hips and pelvis, blowing all the way through your glutes into your thighs and your hamstrings, your shins, into your ankles, your feet and your toes, bringing a full spectrum of awareness to each and every part of your body. feel the weight of your body on the surface in which you are sitting or lying down on, noticing how your body conforms to it and noticing the rise and fall of your breath, the beat of your heart, just staying present in the moment with your body and with your breath.

The existence of thoughts are derived from the past or from the moment. the future, your thoughts will try to pull you away from the present moment. So rather than trying to ignore or pushing away your thoughts, imagine observing them. Objectively, far away from them. See the thought as separate from you. Acknowledge the thought. Without breathing any life into it, envision it as a cloud in the sky thousands and thousands of miles away from your body your mind separate from you you are not here to control your thoughts you are not here to stop them from appearing are not here to process them either you are here simply to watch them to observe to acknowledge and to release them nothing more when a thought pops into your mind say to yourself either out loud or in your mind

I am not my thoughts they are separate from me I am not my thoughts they are separate from me I acknowledge this thought and I release this thought I acknowledge this thought I acknowledge this thought and I release this thought. You are not your thoughts. You are not your feelings. You are not your body. You are the whole universe. Far greater than any passing thought. You are not in the past. You are not in the future. You exist existentially. Now, just take a few moments to let these words. and intentions soak into your mind. When you are ready,

gently bring your awareness back to your body, to the rise and fall of your breath, to the beating of your heart, wiggling your fingers, wiggling your toes, and just bringing your awareness back to your body, taking a moment to express love, and gratitude with love, grace, patience, and kindness to yourself.

You have the power to become the master of your mind, master, of your thoughts, master of your reality. With peace and love, namaste.