Everyday life can make us so stressed or even depressed that we tend to disconnected from our surrounding. At time like this, meditation can eliminate stress and substitute it with inner peace and relaxation. Meditation is one of the best ways we can balance our emotions, take care of our physical distress, and stimulate the peace of the present moment.

However, as simple as it seems, it can be tough to meditate without a teacher or guide. Meditating on your own requires a lot of effort, while guided meditations practically walk you through a meditation and enable you to find a calm and peaceful state—one step at a time. Guided Meditation requires determination and will power.

Try one of these guided meditations, with YouTube videos. Meditations below range from five minutes to one hour.

Chakra Cleansing & Activating

Medical studies have shown that this meditation is more powerful than antidepressant medication. This cuts the negativity stored in the first chakra past traumas. Purifies karma, brings health, internal energy, happiness and ecstasy to life. It may be a bit advanced but worth trying. You can practice this technique anytime, anywhere. If you are going to cleanse, you can do it as fast as you want or as slow as you want.

Sit in a cross-legged position with you back straight. The eyes should be closed or looking at the tip of your nose. The left hand resting on your left knee. Close the right nostril with your right thumb. Breathe through the left nostril and hold your breath, while reciting the mantra. Repeat every word carefully. After that close the left nostril with the index finger and exhale slowly through the right nostril. If you are a beginner then do it for 3 minutes, 7 minutes, 11 minutes and then go up from there. 11 minutes a day can give you confidence and your ability to understand who you are. 31 minutes a day will give great strength and discipline. In one year, it will make you feel fantastic.

Love and Kindness Meditation

More often than not, we find ourselves being angry at someone or even someone else for no particular reason. If you often find yourself in this position, Love and Kindness meditation will help you out. Boosting one’s ability to empathize with others is the beauty of the meditation. This meditation aids development of positive emotions, loving attitude towards oneself as well as increasing self-acceptance.

To practice this, you have to sit down in a meditation position, with your eyes closed, and think about warm feelings of love and kindness for yourself, and then gradually towards other people; starting from your good closest friend to everyone on the planet.

Deep Relaxation & Bliss

Deep relaxation and bliss meditation is a great way to free your mind and body of all worries and negativity. To practice this, first, find a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed for the next 20 minutes, and then find a comfortable position to sit – it can be on a chair, cross legged or on your knees, or lay down and when you’re ready, press play this video or any other deep relaxation at your disposal.

For Insomnia, Sleepless Nightsw.you

If you often encounter difficulty in sleeping, or not feeling rested and relaxed after a night of sleep, or you just want to sleep more easily and improve the quality of your sleep – then guided meditation will help you sleep better by positioning you in a deep state of relaxation where you’ll learn to forget all your thoughts, worries and concerns so that you can have a restful, relaxing and refreshing sleep.

Listening to a guided meditation soundtrack is a great way to drift into the meditation world without having to do any background reading. It’s also an easy means of distracting your mind from all those negative thoughts and relax at night. Just play any guided meditation video or audio, leave it playing on the bedside table, close your eyes and simply listen to the calming instructions. You will be amazed by how effectively it works.

Forgiveness, Releasing Guilt and Letting Go

At times our negative past experiences can seem to be overwhelming and create bitterness in our lives. It is no doubt that forgiveness is difficult. Most times, the painful part is not really the hurt but the act of forgiving. To forgive is not an easy task. But then, holding onto the past, will rob you of peace and happiness. So in order to find peace and heal our heart, we have to forgive and let go. With the aid of guided meditation, be rest assured it will be a walk in the park.

Before you start, find a serene environment where you will be free from any form of distractions for the next 10 – 15 minutes. Then find a comfortable sitting position, you can lie down if you wish. Then play Forgiveness, Releasing guilt and letting go. Take this gentle journey to self-forgiveness and the road will lead to healing. Let go of the resentment and release and welcome the true you.