A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Mindset of Excellence: A Daily Meditation for Strength, Courage & Gratitude

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

🔥This meditation is about the power of choosing your mindset - your thoughts, your emotions, and your experience. This practice is perfect for the morning, as you begin your day, or if you are currently facing an obstacle or task that requires courage or empowered action.  During this practice we explore the power of your breath, your presence, and your choice. It’s a reminder that even in uncertain moments, you have the strength within to choose how you move through it. Here, we gently inquire on who we want to be, how we want this day to unfold, and how we wish to meet whatever lies ahead. Let this be a space to choose peace over worry, trust over fear, and empowered action over doubt. A loving and empowering reminder that you are capable of so much With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Custom Meditations  💌Join My Email List ▶️YouTube 🌸www.azenmindpodcast.com 💖 Say Thanks & Support A Zen Mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.orgend.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. Thank you so much for being here. And welcome to this guided meditation. This practice is an invitation to drop deeply into the space of inner strength, of courage and motivation as you move into your day. and whether you have something in your life that is sitting in front of you that requires action, or maybe if you have the weight of something from the past, still holding strong on your emotional body, perhaps you're just preparing to enter into a new day or a new chapter in your journey.

During this practice, we will invite grounded, peaceful energy. into our being as we consciously choose our path forward. So once you feel ready, get into a nice, comfortable position as you gently arrive in this present space, noticing how your body takes up space, noticing the rhythm of your breath, and noticing any thoughts or emotions that may be present. When you feel ready, let's begin with a deep breath in through the nose, filling your lungs completely, holding at capacity for just a moment. For we release with a full and complete exhale out through the mouth. Another deep and slow inhale through the nose.

Feeling this life of full. force energy entering into your lungs, into your body, and a full breath out through your mouth. More slow and deep inhale through the nose as you exhale completely and just allowing your breath to return to its natural rhythm and when it feels comfortable to do so. gently ask yourself who you want to be and how you want this day to unfold and whatever might be in front of you ask yourself how you wish to meet it how you want to show up for it you must remember that while we cannot control the outcome we can control how we feel about it our reactions or thoughts, our behaviors, we create them.

They don't happen to us, they happen through us. We can choose to show up with courage and with strength, with grounded energy, because this lives within you. Always. Right here and right now and the emotions and the thoughts, the worrying, lies so much internal peace and stillness. And it is yours to choose. And so any resistance or doubt or fear or worry about whatever lies ahead,

choose to meet it with peace and with acceptance for what it is. Choose to smile at it and to lean into it because it is within your power to. to do so. This is all a part of life. Experiences, the highs and the lows, the obstacles and the unknowns. It is all a part of the experience of life in its truest form. There are no good or bad outcomes. There is no right or wrong. It is all simply a part of the experience. The experience is formed by your belief around it that you choose, by the energy that you cultivate, by the emotions that you decide to meet it with. Breathe in deeply here. Breathe deeply into your emotional body, the one that perhaps holds the fear or the doubt or the skepticism. And replace it with gratitude,

cleanse it with gratitude. Gratitude for this moment, for all of your body for all of the things that we get to experience. When you choose gratitude, there is no space for anything else to exist. Use your breath to consciously release the constraints around your heart, around your mind. Know that is in your power to transform it with your thoughts and with your emotions and choose courage choose strength choose this empowered energy feeling it deep in your body now in this next call upon the energy of completion that whatever lies ahead you moved through it and explore that feeling perhaps it's the feeling of relief or pride, accomplishment. Let yourself feel it. Let your emotional body prepare for

this outcome because this is what you are choosing. And so it is the truth. See yourself moving through this day or this week or this chapter with so much grace and ease. With your inner world shining so bright. Next few moments to rest in this energy, in this intention, and to explore the way that circumstances shift around you. When you consciously choose how you are showing up, just be here. Through your breath, back to the inhale and the exhale, back to your body, back to this present space. Know that whatever comes your way today, You are meeting it with strength and with courage, with acceptance and gratitude. Give yourself permission to be open to possibility as you let yourself rise in this beautiful new energy,

knowing that absolutely nothing can or will hold you back. You are a beacon of grace, of peace, and of empowered energy. Once you feel ready, you may wish to welcome some gentle movement back into your body, wiggling your fingers and your toes, taking one more moment to offer gratitude for this practice, for this space, for yourself, and for showing up, and for however this day may unfold, You are so deeply capable of it all. Wishing you so much peace and love. Mustay.