Guided Meditations that You Enjoy

https://youtu.be/U1z7OnusPzg

I've been using this for help with a cold

This person has a really nice voice

https://youtu.be/6p_yaNFSYao

This is very soothing

https://youtu.be/L5tkqaKiryE

Alan Watts and his soothing, relaxing, dulcet tones.
What more could you want?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpUNAFHgxM

I enjoyed that meditation quite a lot

I started back in the day with body scan dives, with visualisation site time, hour long.

Any video examples?

Here's the one by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This programme was started in 1978 at University of Massachusetts Medical Centre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gZgnCy5ew

I remember the long-ish body scans too, Adder. They were not my "favourites"...

I may have to work up to 45 mins

Actually, Ros, you don't have to "work up" to any length of time. Indeed, you don't even "have" to do it at all.

Meditation is the one thing that one cannot put any effort into. "Meditation" means coming back to centre, "media". The only way to work on it is to "be there". It is not a failure if the mind wanders off - minds do that. Wandering minds means that they are healthy and functional. When it happens, you just have to notice where it went, and then - without judgement - just return your attention to where you need it to be 'right now'.

I will emphasise : without judgement ! If your mind wanders off a thousand times in five minutes, then just bring your attention back a thousand times.

If it doesn't wander off at all, then ask yourself if you haven't slipped into a coma or died ... at any rate, meditation is very hard to fail. It is also the only task that has no planned purpose. So, if we are meditating "because ... X, Y or Z," then we are not actually meditating.

"Meditation" is just "being there". Who can really screw that up ?

I knew you were going to say that and I realize even now as I write this that there is a rebuttal for anything I might say as a reason. So I'm not going to say anything else except that I'll stick with 10 min meditations for now

Please don't get salty again, Ros. I was just trying to get you to lighten up on yourself again. You seem to need for things to be "hard" to be meaningful. It isn't the case...

We don't meditate to become better or stronger or more ... whatever. We meditate just to have an interval of time (several hours or just a few seconds) wherein we can let all that thought - the voices in our head - not occupy the entirety of our being-ness. Indeed, it is healthy and ... well, like Watts said, "it is fun" just to BE without any objectivity pressing upon us.

I'm not just saying this for Ros, but for everyone. The hardest thing about meditation is clearing out a space for doing it. Once one starts letting all that thought go on doing whatever it does when we're not listening to it, one is meditating. Sitting at stop lights or riding a crowded lift are perfect times for a few seconds of mere, blissful "being-there-ness".

It wasn't a rebuttal. It was a reminder... That's my rôle, after all. Besides, your 10-minute meditations are just fine.

https://youtu.be/6p_yaNFSYao

I enjoy this one for the background music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FLWcQAo2Ys

I usually wander into the World Tree and explore its roots. No planning - I just go and have fun. Not sure if that's the 'right' way to meditate, but hey, I like it and I get something out of it.