A free guided meditation track a day, keeps the doctor away.

You’ve no doubt heard about some of the potential health benefits associated with meditation:

Reduced stress, better decision making, decreased blood pressure, improved mindfulness – it’s almost become an essential part of living a healthy lifestyle.

But why is forming the habit of sitting still for 10-20 minutes a day way easier said than done?

Like many of you out there, I’ve wrestled with meditation for many few years. Sometimes I go through phases where I’m on point, practising daily. Everything’s good, and I almost feel like a Jedi knight.

Other times, I struggle to be consistent, and whenever I do make the time to sit quietly, I just wanna be somewhere else.

Recently, in an attempt get myself back on track and make the pesky meditation habit stick again, I started playing around with guided meditation. Since starting, I’ve been on a roll, meditating daily without many hiccups.

It’s partly due to the massive amount of awesome free guided meditation resources I’ve stumbled across whilst delving through the depths of the internet. Today I thought I’d share my favourites, so you don’t have to search far and wide like I did.

Ready to get mindful? Let’s do it!

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The Best Free Guided Meditation Sites

Get those chakras aligned.

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Number of tracks: 30

30 Meditation styles: Loving kindness, mindfulness, relaxation, sleep, healing, children.

Loving kindness, mindfulness, relaxation, sleep, healing, children. Length: 9 to 60 min (average 20 min).

9 to 60 min (average 20 min). Download: Yes, paid.

Do Yoga With Me is one of my all-time favourite sites.

I’ve used it for quite a few years now, mainly for their collection of free yoga class videos (hip flexor heaven is a personal favourite).

Along with yoga vids (check out some my favourite stretching routines here), they also have a great library of guided meditation tracks too. There’s a wide range of styles and high quality recordings for you to dive into. Namaste.

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Number of tracks: 30

30 Meditation styles: Mindfulness, healing, gratitude, body scan, moving.

Mindfulness, healing, gratitude, body scan, moving. Length: 3 to 45 min (average 20 mins)

3 to 45 min (average 20 mins) Download: Yes, download only (free)

Again, many different types of mindfulness meditation by various teachers. All tracks are free to download and distribute non-commercially, which is really cool.

One slight downfall is that it doesn’t seem to be possible to listen to the meditation tracks online – you have to download them. It just makes previewing the audio slightly more difficult, but it’s really not a big deal.

It’s still a solid resource.

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Number of tracks: 16

16 Meditation styles: Mindfulness, healing, gratitude, sleep.

Mindfulness, healing, gratitude, sleep. Length: 5 to 60 min (average 15 min).

5 to 60 min (average 15 min). Download: Yep, free.

The Chopra centre is the brainchild of Deepak Chopra and David Simon, two MDs with the goal of improving the health and wellbeing of body, mind and spirit.

Amongst other things, the site hosts a wide range of meditation styles with high quality audio.

The dude who guides you through the meditation script has a deep, gravelly voice that I really wasn’t expecting at first, but you get used to it after a while…

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Number of tracks: 8

8 Meditation styles: Loving kindness, mindfulness, sleep.

Loving kindness, mindfulness, sleep. Length: 3 – 12 mins.

3 – 12 mins. Download: Yes, free.

Simple and clear.

Most meditations tracks are pretty short, but that’s ideal for beginners who are just getting into forming the meditation habit.

A side note:

It’s really cool to see universities recognising the benefits of meditation and mindfulness! Definitely a step in the right direction

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Number of tracks: 50

50 Meditation styles: Loving kindness, mindfulness, forgiveness, sleep, mantra, healing, children.

Loving kindness, mindfulness, forgiveness, sleep, mantra, healing, children. Length: 1 – 30 min (average 15 min).

1 – 30 min (average 15 min). Download: Yes, paid.

Fragrant Heart is one of my favourite free guided meditation sites, partly because of its cool name, but mainly because of the quality of the guided meditations. The tracks are separated into clear categories, with lots of different styles. Each meditation is available with or without background music too, which is a nice touch.

Some tracks are as short as a minute, which is great for beginners, and they also provide a free guided meditation course too.

(You might want to check out my interview with Elisabeth Blaikie, the founder of the site.)

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Number of tracks: 100+

100+ Meditation styles: Loving kindness, mindfulness, forgiveness, sleep.

Loving kindness, mindfulness, forgiveness, sleep. Length: 10 – 40 min. (average 25 min).

10 – 40 min. (average 25 min). Download: Yes, free.

Tara has a massive library of at least a hundred guided meditation tracks to keep you going, various styles, with a new one added each week.

The site is really user-friendly, and the tracks are all good quality too. No music, just a calming voice guiding you through.

Nice and simple.

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Number of tracks: 50

50 Meditation styles: Mindfulness, relaxation, healing, loving kindness, sleep.

Mindfulness, relaxation, healing, loving kindness, sleep. Length: 8 to 25 min (average 18 mins).

8 to 25 min (average 18 mins). Download: Yes, free.

One of the most popular meditation podcast on iTunes right now.

It’s not updated all that regularly, but there’s still plenty of episodes in the catalogue to work your way through.

Again, there’s a wide variety of meditation styles available. The ‘healthy body’ meditation is a good one to work up to.

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Number of tracks: 28

28 Meditation styles: Mindfulness, relaxation, healing, grief, sleep.

Mindfulness, relaxation, healing, grief, sleep. Length: 8 to 25 min (average 20 mins)

8 to 25 min (average 20 mins) Download: Yes, free

Another great podcast with lots of different meditation styles to choose from, and all are free to download.

Headphones are recommended when listening, because the tracks are layered over binaural beats, which affect your brainwaves and make you extra mindful.

Groovy.

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Number of tracks: 40

40 Meditation styles: Mindfulness, relaxation, loving kindness, body scan.

Mindfulness, relaxation, loving kindness, body scan. Length: 5 to 50 min (average 20 mins)

5 to 50 min (average 20 mins) Download: Yes, free

Audio Dharma is a massive resource, with around forty free guided meditations available from a variety of teachers, as well as a shed load of interesting talks and videos on mindfulness.

They also have a pretty good podcast, if you’re a fan of listening on the move.

Well worth checking out if you really want to dig into many different meditation styles, and take your mindfulness game to the next level.

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Number of tracks: 5

5 Meditation styles: Mindfulness, calming.

Mindfulness, calming. Length: 5 to 20 min

5 to 20 min Download: Yes (on mobile)

Calm.com is a bit different to the rest of the sites I’ve mentioned.

You can either choose the simple guided meditations (which range from 2 to 20 mins) or go solo and use the meditation timer. You also get to select your background noise from a range of natural environments.

Calm is available online, or as an app for your iPhone or Android device.

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Number of tracks: 10 (100s in paid version)

10 (100s in paid version) Meditation styles: Mindfulness, relaxation, loving kindness, body scan, stress, anxiety, productivity, healing.

Mindfulness, relaxation, loving kindness, body scan, stress, anxiety, productivity, healing. Length: 10 min (10 – 60 minutes in paid version)

10 min (10 – 60 minutes in paid version) Download: Yes

Developed by former buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe, and his business partner Rich Pierson, Headspace is the meditation app and website taking the mindfulness world by storm.

The ten day ‘Take Ten’ series is free to try out, but after that it’s a yearly subscription fee.

It’s definitely one of my favourite apps, and I can’t recommend it enough. I actually upgraded to the paid version, and I now use that every morning.

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Number of tracks: 1000s

1000s Meditation styles: Everything.

Everything. Length: 5 to 120 min

5 to 120 min Download: Yes, free

I stumbled upon Dharma Seed after a comment from a reader a while back (thanks Gil).

It’s an incredible resource, with literally thousands free guided meditation tracks and talks from teachers from all around the world.

I’ve not delved too deep into the library yet, but from what I’ve heard so far, it’s a great site with a shed load of useful content.

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What are some of your favourite free guided meditation sites? Any you would add to the list?

Let me know in the comments section below!

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