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Meditation For Beginners To Create A Calm And Focused Mind

by Michelle Alva

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Lay down or sit down and close your eyes to easily cultivate a calm and focused mind through simple breathing and somatic-awareness practices in this meditation for beginners. This meditation will also guide you to create a meditative mindset with use of NeuroLinguistic Programming to release sub-conscious resistance to surrendering to a meditative and calm mind. It was created to nurture those who struggle with meditation and are seeking practical ways to cultivate inner peace and focus.

MeditationBeginnersCalmFocusBreathingSomatic AwarenessNeuro Linguistic ProgrammingInner PeaceMindfulnessSelf InquiryVisualizationNon JudgmentGratitudeSelf ConnectionBody AwarenessAffirmationsBreath AwarenessThree Part BreathGratitude PracticeFuture Self VisualizationSpontaneous BreathingMindfulness PracticeMeditative State

Transcript

Close your eyes,

And open up your body.

Allow yourself to feel so open to learn how to meditate,

To quiet your mind,

And to expand your ability to feel in the present moment.

Thoughts will arise,

It may feel physically uncomfortable,

Emotions might surface up.

Repeat my voice,

What I say,

Which will reinforce your ability to be open to meditate now,

Maybe even for the first time,

To uncover this wellspring of inner peace that is available to you whenever you choose to practice.

Spread your arms open,

Open up your legs,

Lay down.

Find a comfortable position where you can surrender your body to a meditative state of inner peace and calm.

The journey to getting there may include some turbulent thoughts,

Discomforts.

Stay with yourself,

Commit to staying,

It's only a few minutes,

The payoff is incredible.

You get to discover inner peace,

Harmony with yourself,

And a deeper connection to your heart,

To the essence of who you are.

Open up your legs and arms once again,

Bring that awareness,

And say out loud,

I am open to experiencing the benefits of meditation now.

I am open to experiencing the benefits of meditation now.

I am free to experience the benefits of a calm and quiet mind now.

I am free to experience the benefits of a calm and quiet mind now.

I am willing to focus being present now.

I am willing to focus being present now.

I choose to know how to meditate now.

I choose to know how to meditate now.

I am open to experience a deeper connection with myself now.

I am open to experience a deeper connection to myself now.

I choose for it to be pleasurable to experience deeper states of consciousness and inner peace now.

I am open for it to be pleasurable to experience deeper states of consciousness now.

I am so grateful that I am creating the time,

The space,

And the practice to experience a deeper connection to this present moment and myself now.

Allow yourself now to breathe in deeply through your nose,

Inhale and expand your breath fully now through the nose.

Feel the expansion of your heart and lungs,

Abdomen as you inhale,

Exhale,

Open your mouth.

Ah.

Allow yourself to breathe deeply now three times,

Slowly,

Consciously,

With your eyes closed.

Inhale.

Exhale.

Allow my voice to guide you.

Inhale.

You're doing great.

Ah.

Feel the expansion.

Ah.

Inhale,

Expand.

Ah.

Exhale,

Let go.

Ah.

Inhale three sniffs now.

Inhale,

Inhale,

Inhale,

And feel the expansion.

Ah.

Pause at the top of that breath.

Hold your breath.

Stay expanded.

Exhale.

Ah.

Keep your arms open,

Your legs open,

Lean back into the support surface.

Inhale,

Inhale,

Inhale.

Ah.

Expand,

Expand,

Expand your breath.

Pause.

Hold that breath.

Feel the expansion.

Exhale.

Ah.

One more time.

Breath expansion.

One,

Two,

Three sniffs.

Pause.

Notice now the space around your body as you hold your breath.

Become aware of the more that you are.

A body and the spaciousness that you've created.

Exhale.

Ah.

Allow yourself to lay here,

Witnessing your spontaneous breath.

Let go of controlling how you breathe or how you hold yourself.

Simply be here now,

Witnessing the rising and falling of your chest and abdomen as you are breathing spontaneously,

Automatically.

Allow yourself to be the witness,

The observer of all the sensations and sounds.

Thoughts may arise,

And that's okay.

You can tell your thinking mind,

I'm meditating now.

I'm practicing being the witness,

The observer.

Judgments,

Criticism,

Analysis may arise.

Of course it might.

You've done it before in your past.

This is something new that you're cultivating.

Be patient with yourself.

Commit to staying with yourself.

Bring your focus to your breath.

Notice how it's spontaneous and automatic.

Feel the rising and falling of your chest and abdomen.

It just happens.

Feel the sensations.

Notice how it feels to be breathed automatically,

Spontaneously,

By creation that created you.

Feel grateful for the trees,

The grass,

Everything that's green that is allowing you to live by creating oxygen for you.

Feel grateful that you're breathing out carbon dioxide for everything that's green to live.

Feel those waves of your breath,

Spontaneous.

It just happens.

When your focus shifts and you think again,

It's okay.

Come back to feeling your breath.

You can also take a deep breath in to recenter and refocus yourself on your body,

On the feeling of the breath.

Feel the expansion.

You can also inhale,

Inhale,

Inhale,

Three sniffs to come back to the present moment,

Free,

Embodied,

And focused.

I am willing to be open to practicing daily the benefits of focusing my mind,

Being mindful and present,

Practicing being the witness and the observer throughout my day without any judgment,

Criticism,

Or analysis.

I'm perfectly wherever I am now.

I choose to accept the journey,

The process,

The practice of becoming more self-aware and focused,

Of being more present with a meditative mind.

And I'm so grateful for it.

I'm grateful that I get to cultivate being present,

Focusing my mind,

Being mindful,

And meditating.

And imagine what it would be like a year from now.

You're motivated to wake up and meditate.

You live your life unaffected by whatever might be going on around you.

You're so calm.

Your blood pressure is ideal.

Your heart rate.

You have a responsive mind.

You know how to respond to things that are happening around you because you're so connected to the truth of who you are,

Your intuition,

Your higher knowing sense.

Imagine what it would be like to feel that you have an incredible sense of discernment and that the choices that you make in your life support your soul's purpose,

Your mission for being here in this lifetime.

Imagine that you know easily how to make decisions that are for your highest good and the good of all.

Breathe in harmonious breaths of expansion.

I am open to living in harmony connected to my authentic self,

My true self.

I am aligned and clear now.

I'm so grateful for every single moment that I created to cultivate a meditative mind.

Thank you,

Thank you,

Thank you to myself for loving myself so much that I know now how to choose my state of being.

I choose to be calm,

Alert,

Focused,

Harmonious from within.

Life is going to happen.

Things are going to happen around us.

It's our choice how we respond to them.

When we respond with calm and focused,

Connected to who we really are we'll create results that are more harmonious and aligned to our true self.

Thank you for listening.

And now I invite you to listen to the silence and in this silent moment ask yourself how can I love you more?

How can I support you more?

To strengthen your meditative mind and notice what arises.

Thank you,

Innate wisdom.

Thank you,

Body.

Listen to this meditation as frequently as you feel called to.

It will support you to strengthen your ability to meditate.

And the more we cultivate a peaceful mind and body we're benefiting the world.

Thank you for making the time.

You're so divine.

Meet your Teacher

Michelle AlvaMiami, FL, USA

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