Guided Meditation Library

My approach to meditation is very gentle, warm and low-pressure. I encourage people to explore practices that genuinely feel nourishing, enjoyable and supportive for their unique nervous system. That is why this library includes a variety of different meditation styles - from simple grounding resets to more expansive inner journeys - allowing you to discover what feels most alive and restorative for you each day.

When we’re under stress, it can be difficult to respond the way we truly want to. Meditation helps create gentle pauses in our thinking and reactivity, strengthening our capacity to regulate emotions, return to the present and choose our responses consciously.

Regular meditation also …

• Increases feel-good neurochemicals

• Improves immune response

• Improves sleep quality

• Improves memory

• Enhances concentration

• Increase’s pleasure

• Reduce’s stress

• Regulates the nervous system

• Supports emotional regulation

• Supports trauma recovery

• Strengthens positive neural pathways

• Supports creativity

• Supports gut health

• Increases self-awareness

• Increases neuroplasticity

• Reduces reactivity

• Improves clarity and decision making

• Supports intuition and inner perception

• Strengthens third eye capacity

• Strengthens presence, gratitude and enjoyment of life

• Supports the gradual remembering of your true nature.

• Supports spiritual awakening

Position

There is no perfect way to experience these meditations. Traditional meditation practices often place emphasis on sitting upright, cross-legged and remaining still, which can be beautiful and powerful. At the same time, many modern bodies and nervous systems may benefit from reclining or lying down, especially as much of daily life already involves sitting.

You’re welcome to get creative and find a position that feels good for your body whilst keeping the spine relatively straight and the body fairly symmetrical. You might like to lie flat on the floor with a pillow under your knees, recline back on cushions, rest in a reclining chair or curl up on the couch with pillows — just not while driving.

Technique

The foundation of meditation is simply noticing when the mind has wandered and softly returning back to an anchor point.

My voice and invitations simply create an anchor point for you to gently return your thoughts back to.

It’s very normal for your mind to wander - even every second - and to completely forget you are meditating while thinking about other things. The most important part is the quality at which you bring your attention back: kindly, softly and continuously.

Stillness

Stillness can help settle the nervous system, so if possible, I’d encourage gently breathing through moments of agitation or restlessness and seeing if your body can soften and settle.

At the same time, if your position feels generally uncomfortable or frustrating, please move and adjust. This may be particularly relevant for neurodivergent people and wriggly bodies and minds.

Alert or asleep?

You don’t need to remain perfectly alert. If you fall asleep, that is completely okay. Often it simply means you needed a nap. I regularly use guided meditations for naps and to fall asleep myself, especially during restless nights.

Regular Practice

To experience the full benefits of meditation, a daily practice is widely recommended, even if it’s just a minimum of two minutes. The earlier in the day, the better.

Make its yours

In saying that, please use these meditations in whatever way feels most nourishing and restorative to you.

The deepening of my meditation practice began in a very unusual way when I was 23 years old and travelling alone through Thailand.

Whilst staying in Bangkok, a monk in full beautiful saffron robes came into a travel agency I’d been visiting regularly and asked the clerk in Thai if I would come and stay with the nuns at the monastery because he had seen something in me. No one spoke English and it was not a place for Westerners, but I packed my bags and went with him on the bus to the monastery.

I lived alongside the nuns there for three weeks, sleeping on a wooden bench, waking around 3am for meditation and learning extensive chants, which they eventually had me perform in front of the whole monastery. It was all very surreal and fascinating.

By coincidence, a week later, I travelled to another monastery deep in the jungle, which I had mistakenly thought was more of a retreat centre for Westerners, but again, no one spoke English and an elderly nun simply beckoned me to follow her and I ended up staying with her for another three weeks.

I lived alongside her as she did. We slept on the wooden floor with a wooden block as a pillow, woke very early for walking and cooking meditation and sitting meditation deep into the evening. Without language, she simply showed me how she lived.

Since then, I have practised and studied many different meditation styles from ancient to modern. Meditation became an essential cornerstone for my quick recovery when I was 25 and experienced panic attacks.

Over the years I’ve realised that different meditations work for me on different days and in different moods, which is why I’ve created a variety of meditation practices for you with flexibility around how to go about them. This approach supports my particular neurotype, which is AuDHD. I enjoy structure and variety equally, and I also hope this will suit many overstimulated modern minds.

These days, most days, I’ll do a focused meditation morning, afternoon and night, anywhere from two minutes to an hour. I’m often in a meditative state for much of the day, simply bringing my awareness gently back to an anchor point like a word, phrase or the breath.

I hope your journey with meditation brings as much peace, acceptance and joy as it has brought for me and to many others for many thousands of years.

The Guided Meditation Library is currently offered at an opening price of $3.33 AUD per month.

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