Guided Meditations: 5 Tips to Create Them on Your Own

Have you ever tried a guided meditation? Normally is just a voice telling you what to do step by step, so… why not make your own at your own pace and rhythm? The best thing about recording your own guided meditations is that your voice is familiar to you and it can be a real customized experience.

Let’s see how to do it:

1. On your meditation practice recognize what are the steps that you normally follow, maybe you start with the respiration and later you focus on your body, or you just start focusing your attention on your head and follow trough there.

A guided meditation helps you to give a pattern to follow, so identify what is your pattern and record it. If you don’t have one, record one and follow until you learn it, this will make easier the process of learning a technique.

2. If you usually get distracted very easily, record phrases of encouragement in your guided meditation like: “is ok to get distracted, continue focusing on the breath” or “keep your attention on your body, just your body”.

3. Use your guided meditation as a way to remember what is the purpose of your meditation practice, for example, for a loving-kindness meditation remember yourself on the recording sending good vibrations of love and compassion or custom phrases like: “Send love to your children (you can record their names)”.

4. Create a collection of guided meditations and save them on your MP3 player, according to your mood you can choose one to focus on.

5. Try to make your guided meditations short, in this way you can record them fast and focus only on the important things that you want to take care on the meditation.

With this 5 easy tips you will see how you can create your own guided meditations fast and easily, make sure you use them as a support and not the main part of your meditation practice, with time you won’t need them as you will know what to do and how to do it.