A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Guided Meditation for Being With Yourself (Unguided Presence Practice)

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

💆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

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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. And welcome to this guided, silent meditation. We'll begin this practice with a few moments of gentle guidance before allowing ourselves to settle into our own silence, the quiet within. Remember that this is a practice and there is no right or wrong way to do this. Your mind is designed to think. So we are not trying to empty the mind or stop thoughts from arising.

Instead, we are gently allowing ourselves to experience the quiet, beneath them, learning how to be present and content in the spaciousness. of silence. Your mind may try to pull you in different directions and that is perfectly normal. When it does, simply bring your attention back to your breath as many times as you may need. May wish to take a moment now to shake off any excess energy, perhaps rolling the neck or the shoulders, sometimes allow, Our body to move helps us settle more deeply into stillness. When you're ready, find a comfortable position, closing your eyes or fixing your gaze in the space around you.

In your own time, welcoming in a slow, deep inhale and a complete exhale. See if you can notice the space between the breath. pause between your inhale and your exhale and when thoughts arise imagine your exhale carrying them out of you creating space each breath inviting you deeper into this moment welcoming you exactly as you are open yourself fully do everything that is to be felt to be experienced to be received here as we surrender to the space that holds both nothing and everything. Just let go. Welcome to the silence. You're ready. Begin to shift your awareness back to your breath, to your body, to the wider sense of space that's been created within you. Offer yourself a moment of

of appreciation of gratitude for this practice for this intention and for this space that you've created within your own inner world invite some movement back into the body wiggling your fingers and your toes and slowly opening your eyes carrying this spacious ease with you into the remainder of your day or night wishing you so much peace and love amoste