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Spiritual Exercises: Some Guided Meditations

I love guided meditations. Most of the time they really help me connect intimately with God, myself and the world around me. Here are some great guided meditations available for free in MP3 format:

The Meditation Podcast: Jesse and Jeane Stern produce a new guided meditation each month. They do an amazing job — their words, tone and pacing are fabulous. These are simple, basic meditations, and each meditation is about 25 minutes long. Their most recent meditation is called “Falling Asleep,” and it’s wonderful to use right before bed.

To download the meditations from iTunes, search iTunes for “The Meditation Podcast,” then click on “The Meditation Podcast,” then find the meditations you wish to download and click the corresponding “Get Episode” button.

Or you can go to the download page on The Meditation Podcast website and follow the instructions.

Tara Brach’s Guided Meditations: Last week on my blog I mentioned Tara Brach, a psychotherapist and Buddhist teacher and meditation leader in the Washington, D.C. area. Her guided meditations are absolutely fabulous! There are two available on her website; one is called “Guided Metta Meditation,” the other is called “Guided Vipassana Meditation” — both are about 30 minutes long.

“Metta” meditation is “loving-kindness” meditation. It’s all about abiding in love, soaking in love, in a way that’s healing and transformational. Tara’s guided metta meditation — the one available for download — is focused on the theme of “forgiveness,” and I found it extremely powerful.

“Vipassana” meditation is “insight” meditation. It’s a more basic “centering down” practice, similar to basic centering prayer or contemplative prayer.

To download Tara’s guided meditations, visit the download page on her website and follow the instructions.

Of course I highly encourage you to try these meditations. If you do, I’d love to hear about your experience. If you feel comfortable, post your comments here on my blog.

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    The fact that I didn’t fall asleep right after the “Falling Asleep” meditation is no reflection on its worth. :) I really enjoyed this! I was more relaxed afterward for sure.

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