A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Stop Playing Small: A Guided Meditation to Release Doubt & Expand Your Life

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

✨This meditation was created by a concept that truly changed my life - Stop Playing Small. So often, limiting beliefs and self-doubt keep us from rising into the version of ourselves we’re meant to be. In this practice, you’ll be guided to reflect, release, and shift your mindset, breaking down barriers, returning to your center, and aligning with your next level self.  This is a powerful and transformative meditation designed to expand your perspective, strengthen your belief in yourself, and open the door to new possibilities. With love, Jo  👇👇👇 More from A Zen Mind 👇👇👇 ✨Join Me on Instagram! 🎙️ Listen Ad Free on Spotify 💞 Work With Me 1:1 (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

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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 and welcome to this guided meditation. This meditation is a powerful mindset shift that has the power to change the way that you show up in the world and in your own life. one that is deeply rooted in self-belief, in unwavering confidence, self-expression, and expansion. So often we let the fear of failure, the fear of being seen trying, hold us back. We worry about how others perceive us. We find excuses rather than solutions.

all of which keep us from acting on our greatest dreams. And so this meditation is a practice of releasing the limiting beliefs that have held you back. This is a space where you can honor and tap into your authenticity, your ideas, your uniqueness, truly cherishing them as a beautiful part of who's, of who you are and what you have been put on this earth to do. When we stop playing small, we can step into our truth on purpose and lead a life with so much impact for ourselves and others around. So once you feel ready, find a nice, comfortable position and gently close your eyes, settling into your eyes. Settling into you.

this space, letting your spine be nice and tall, dropping your shoulders away from your ears, tilting your chin up ever so slightly, letting yourself take up space, welcoming a few deep breaths into this moment, beginning with a deep breath in through the nose and a full exhale. out through the mouth breath in through the nose that'll into this space as we drift deeper into our inner experience one that is yours and yours alone and in this moment a recent moment where you may have held yourself back an idea but you didn't share it maybe you wanted to say yes but instead you said no or not Right now, we watered yourself down because you were afraid of how it would look to others.

Whatever comes to mind first is your inner voice trying to speak. So listen, don't judge it, just see it clearly. Or just the voice of our inner critic, the ego, the loudest holding you back, reflect. What your body feels when you shrink. Notice the heaviness, the tension, that comes from when we keep ourselves small. Words that we leave unsaid, tension of unfinished business. Change the narrative and choose a different. Envision the same moment.

You share your truth. You stand tall in what it is that you claim. You are no longer afraid of how others perceive you. You release the doubt of your capabilities because you know you are capable. You don't second guess yourself, you just deeply and envision a life lived in this way. Envision the strength and the courage, the lightness, the expansion that comes from living in your truth. This is the version of you that exists. When you stop, this is your truth, your soul, the part of you that deserves to be heard,

the version of you that knows they can lead a life of deep purpose. This is you with this energy of expansion or what it feels like to show up as your most authentic self. Free from the doubt, free from the fears. free from any of the beliefs that have held you back. You are stepping into a new chapter here. Let your body feel it. Let yourself become it. As we begin to close in this powerful mantra,

lives within me. Potential that lives within me. Potential that lives within me. Taking one more deep, slow and intentional breath in through the nose, exhale out in your truth. It is safe for you to take up space. It is safe for you to express yourself. It is safe for you to show the world, your authenticity, your uniqueness, your ideas and your dreams. It is safe for you to create and live the life. of your dreams are the architect, you are the creator of your reality and so show up

knowing that to be your truth as you move into your day gently notice any of the moments where you may feel small notice them and consciously choose to expand your body and your mind will learn that it is safe to be seen safe to take up space safe to exist in your authenticity and safe to stop playing small peace and love