We curate this website in order to deliver the heart of what mindfulness is. Because it’s heart work. It’s hard work. It takes practice, and it’s worth it. Whether you’re in need of a better night’s sleep, a chance to practice gratitude, or simply a reminder to take a deep breath, here are our most popular guided meditations from 2018.
The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2018:
- A Basic Breathing Meditation. This practice from Susan Kaiser Greenland helps us build the foundation for an enduring mindfulness practice because it brings us back to the fundamentals: settling the mind as you get in touch with your breathing for a few minutes.
- Building Compassion Through Awareness. Kristin Neff, a leading expert on mindful self-compassion, guides us through a practice for weaving kind phrases and intentions into a meditation.
Susan Kaiser Greenland August 20, 2018
- Cultivate Mindfulness in Every Moment. Jon Kabat-Zinn, the pioneer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, offers a 20-minute meditation for to cultivate the ability to let your experience unfold without it having to be a particular way—tapping into the ability to “be awake and aware with no particular agenda,” says Kabat-Zinn.
Kristin Neff September 4, 2018
- A Meditation for Better Sleep. Mark Bertin offers this breath-counting practice to help us get to sleep. We all know we can’t force ourselves to fall asleep, but Bertin suggests the beauty of counting your breaths is that it helps us let go of stubborn thought loops so we can wind down and finally fall asleep.
Jon Kabat-Zinn July 31, 2018
- Tune into the Body. This practice focuses on the body—as a whole, and also pinpointing specific locations—in order to anchor attention in the here and now.
Mark Bertin March 19, 2021
- A Simple Walking Meditation. Taking our meditation practice outdoors allows us to savor nature and, importantly, weave movement into our contemplative practice. This practice explores practicing mindfulness with every footfall, varying pace and distance.
Jon Kabat-Zinn August 30, 2018
- Tap into Gratitude. Elaine Smookler takes us through our senses as an exercise to tap into life’s small delights—a simple but steady way to cultivate gratitude and a habit of seeing the good around us that we might miss when we’re in autopilot mode, rushing from one thing to the next.
Jon Kabat-Zinn September 27, 2018
- Open Your Heart. World-renowned meditation teacher and author Sharon Salzberg offers a compassion practice for offering kindness that we so often would give to friends and loved ones—but not to ourselves.
Elaine Smookler December 20, 2022
- Tame Difficult Emotions. This meditation helps us investigate the thoughts and sensations that surround difficult emotions—the thinking being that we must work with difficult emotions, not push them away.
Sharon Salzberg September 21, 2018
- A Forgiveness Meditation. This guided meditation from Bob Stahl is a three-step practice for offering forgiveness to yourself, those you’ve hurt, and others who have hurt you.
Carley Hauck October 11, 2018
Bob Stahl October 18, 2018
