A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Mindful Reflect & Reset - Guided Meditation for a Fresh Start

Episode Date: January 1, 2025

This meditation is a perfect way to welcome in the new year (or any time you're seeking a fresh start) 💖. This time invites you to take a moment to reflect on the journey you've walked, shedding wh...at no longer serves you and welcoming the energy and beliefs that align with your highest good. This practice will help you honor the past with gratitude, embrace the present with love, and step forward into the future with clarity and intention. Whether you’re closing a chapter—be it a relationship, a life event, or a season of growth, or stepping into 2025 with a fresh outlook, this meditation offers a space to pause, release, and realign. It’s a gentle reset to ground yourself in gratitude and welcome the beautiful possibilities that await you.  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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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hello and welcome to A Zen Mind, part of the Airwave Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joe, and I'm so grateful that you're here. If you enjoy this meditation, please consider rating the show on your listening platform, as it truly helps the show reach even more people. You can follow me on Instagram at a.zend.mind, and for ad-free episodes, check out my Patreon. All links can be found in the description. Now, a quick message from the sponsors of today's episode. And as always, once the meditation begins, there will be no advertisements and no disruptions.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Thank you so much for being here. Hello and welcome to this guided meditation. This meditation has been created to help you come back to center, to reset and renew, to ground yourself fully in the present moment, a space where, you are abundant. During this time, we will create space for healing, for reflection, for release, and for gratitude, offering love and compassion to yourself. As you are, from where you've come from, and from where you are going. Begin by finding a comfortable position, allowing your body to settle. Let your hands rest wherever they feel.
Starting point is 00:01:59 natural, perhaps on your knees or gently placed over your heart and your belly. Close your eyes and take a deep, steady breath in through the nose, holding it for just a moment, and then exhale softly through your mouth. Feel the weight of your body anchoring you into the earth beneath you. Let this moment be a space where you can simply rest and be now gently bringing your awareness to your breath. Just notice its natural rhythm without any judgment. Notice how each inhale nourishes your body with prana and how every exhale releases what no longer serves you. With each breath, imagine releasing anything that feels heavy, any pain, anger, fear, or frustration that may be lingering within you. Let these lower frequencies dissolve
Starting point is 00:03:36 with every exhale, clearing space for growth, for peace, and for love to flourish. Take a slow, deep breath now, inhaling deeply, creating the space in your body, in your mind, and in your heart, and to exhale fully, letting go, trusting that you are exactly where you are meant to be in this very moment. As you continue to breathe, allow yourself a few moments of reflection. What are the things that you are ready to release? What beliefs or thoughts no longer align with the life that you are creating? Think about where you see yourself a year from now. How you envision your life, what beliefs must you cultivate in order for that to become your reality. Reflect on how far you have come up until this very point.
Starting point is 00:05:48 Offer yourself love, gratitude, and compassion for everything that you have experienced. Taking a moment to look into the future with optimism, with excitement, Knowing that you are the architect of your own reality, your potential is absolutely limitless. Take a moment to reflect and just be in this moment. Letting everything come together right here, right now. Breathing in compassion. Breathing in love. Breathing in understanding and peace.
Starting point is 00:07:28 every exhale is an offering a gift of freedom to yourself letting go with gratitude for the lessons learned and the growth that has come and let's take a moment to offer gratitude for it all for each moment that has shaped the beautiful resilient person that you are today offer gratitude for yourself for choosing to do something incredible for your mind for your spirit, for your family, for your loved ones, showing up for yourself. Creating this space and creating this time is a gift you've chosen to give to yourself.
Starting point is 00:08:41 Let the gratitude for that rise up within you, extending outward into every part of your being, offering that same gratitude on all that has brought you to. to this point, the challenges that you've faced, the joys that you've experienced, the growth that you've embraced. And as you look forward, open yourself to gratitude for all that is yet to come. Trust in the timing and unfolding of your life. Now, take a few moments to allow yourself to rest in this stillness and just simply be here present in this intimate moment with yourself. feeling the steady rhythm of your breath, serving as a reminder that life moves through you in waves,
Starting point is 00:09:53 moments of release and moments of renewal. And if your mind begins to wander during these next few minutes, gently bring it back to this mantra. I trust the path before me and the unfolding of my life. I trust the path before me, and the unfolding of my life. Just sit, just be. As we come to the end of this meditation,
Starting point is 00:11:41 take one more deep breath in, pushing it all the way down to your abdomen and a full exhale out, perhaps with a sigh, feeling the fullness of your being, the clarity of your mind and the peace that is in your heart. When you feel ready, you may gently wiggle your fingers and your toes, gently bringing your awareness, back, opening
Starting point is 00:12:33 your eyes slowly and carrying this sense of healing, gratitude, and presence with you into your day, into the year before you, into all areas of your life. You are here, you are whole, no matter where you've come from, no matter where you are going, you are exactly where you are meant to be. Trust the path before you and the unfolding of your life. Wishing you peace and love. Namaste.

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