Meditation
15 techniques available
Skills for quieting the mind and cultivating present-moment awareness. These practices help reduce stress, improve focus, and build emotional resilience through various techniques from simple breathing exercises to guided visualizations. Read more in-depth about meditation here.
Three Basic Meditations
There are three basic meditations that most people think of when they think about meditation: Focusing on the breath, focusing on an object, and mantras.
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
A simple, effortless technique using a silently repeated mantra to settle the mind into a state of restful alertness—transcending ordinary thought to access deeper levels of awareness.
Calm Safe Place
Calm safe place is where you imagine yourself in an environment that makes you feel calm and safe. This meditation is commonly used in EMDR.
Higher Self or Ideal Self
The higher self or ideal self meditation is trying to help you get in touch with the best version of yourself, regardless of how you phrase it.
Container
Create a mental container to temporarily compartmentalize stressors until you can process them at a safe time.
Leaf and Stream
Visualize placing thoughts or emotions on a leaf and watching them float away down a stream, helping you acknowledge and release them.
Theater Stage
Imagine your emotions or thoughts as performances on a stage, allowing them to fully express before exiting.
Loving-Kindness Meditation
A practice of directing feelings of love, compassion, and goodwill toward yourself and others through repeated phrases and visualization.
Mindful Eating
A meditation practice that brings full awareness to the experience of eating, engaging all senses to deepen appreciation and improve your relationship with food.
Mountain Meditation
A visualization practice that cultivates inner stability and groundedness by imagining yourself as a mountain—solid, unmoving, and present through all conditions.
Lake Meditation
A visualization practice that cultivates inner peace and depth by imagining yourself as a lake—reflecting the world while remaining calm and clear in your depths.
Healing Light Visualization
A meditation that uses visualization of healing light entering and flowing through the body to promote relaxation, pain relief, and emotional healing.
Future Self Meditation
A visualization practice where you meet and receive guidance from your wisest, most actualized future self, creating a bridge between who you are and who you're becoming.
Qigong Meditation
An ancient Chinese practice combining gentle movement, breath work, and meditation to cultivate and balance life energy (qi) for health, vitality, and inner peace.
Zen Walking Meditation
Kinhin is a formal walking meditation practice from Zen Buddhism that brings meditative awareness to slow, deliberate walking, bridging seated practice and active life.