The Monroe Institute's Guided Meditation for a Stress-Free Life | 30-Minute Guided Meditation

For free customizable daily meditations from the best personal growth teachers in the world, create your free Mindvalley account today at mindvalley.com. Your meditation starts in five, four, three, two, one. Albert Einstein is reputed to have said that one of the most important decisions that we will ever make is whether the universe is friendly or hostile. We are conditioned by our culture to view life in a very Darwinian way, survival of the fittest. But there is another way. This exercise is designed to teach you how to focus in a different way, to guide you gently but firmly into a space where there is no gain in pain. Let the music and the tones support you into an experience of asking different questions and receiving answers from the deepest part of you. What do I want? You are allowed to want things. Your desires may be lofty and spiritual or they may be simple or mundane. They may be profound or they may be frivolous. Both are fine. You are allowed to want things. It is as natural to you as breathing. In fact, you can't not want things. It's impossible. If you can't easily access what you do want, there certainly will be a part of you that knows what you don't want. So now you can use that to focus on what you do want. How will it feel when the things that you don't want are gone from your life? How do you want to feel? What does your life look like, sound like, taste like when these things are gone? And now let's get really focused on some new understandings and some new affirmations. I allow all good things to flow to me. I know I am worthy. There is nothing I need to do to deserve these things. I am enough. I remain alert, attentive, and responsive to all opportunities for my own success. I know that my success will enable me to serve others from a place of abundance. You may just want to focus on the area around your heart and ask your inner being to show you to let you feel what your life can look like when you come from this energy. You can stimulate this with an image or you can use these affirmations and allow them to really resonate with you. You can paraphrase them to make them fit you more precisely if you want. I am enough. My success diminishes no one and enriches all. I allow and expect good things to come to me because I already appreciate all that I have. I keep moving forward. I love to feel curious. I love to feel calm. I love to feel excited and joyful. Now feel the energy of this. Feel it in your breath. Feel it in your muscles, in your bones. I understand all things come to me for a reason even when I can't see what it is right away. There is nothing I have to do because of others opinions, judgments, or standards. There are many things I want to do because they fully express who I am. I understand that I can grow through joy. I commit now to living a life of joyful expansion, always unfolding a truer, deeper, or expanded version of myself. I let go of the question what should I do. I replace it with what's next. I am open to following my highest bliss. This allows me to take inspired action to achieve my goals in a relaxed and sustainable way. Now really get familiar with this energy, with this vibration. Notice how it feels and the reason you want to do this is so that when things knock you off course, you can turn your way back to it. Now imagine yourself as if on a screen in front of you. Imagine yourself going through your life with this mindset. Imagine how this changes some of those situations that would have been more difficult in the past. Imagine yourself moving forward with so much more engagement, relaxation, and energy. And now step into that image and look out through those eyes. Feel with that heart. Think with that mind. Notice the difference. And now just continue to relax and stay in this place. When you next hear my voice, it will be to guide you back to everyday awareness. But bring with you every learning, both conscious and unconscious. Feel a real curiosity about all the changes you are going to notice over the coming days and weeks ahead. I'll leave you here again, to being refreshed, energized, and fully awake. And as I count from five to one, feeling more awake and alert with every number, I will invite you to return five, four, three, two, one, one, one. Wide awake and feeling really good. Download the Mindvalley app. You can't put a price on better mental health, so we didn't. Enjoy free meditation every day. Simply download the Mindvalley app to get started.