Guided Meditation for Self Reflection.

Guided Meditation for Self Reflection.

To begin, minimize your distractions by silencing your cell phone and letting others know you need some quiet time alone to meditate. 

1. Find a comfortable seat, close your eyes, and begin to wind down by taking several slow deep breaths.
2. Use your breath to go inward and connect with any sensations, images, feelings, or thoughts that may be present.
3. In this space of stillness and quietude, set an intention that you are ready to let go of anything that is ready to be released.
4. Take a few moments to consider how everything has its own cycle of beginning, middle, and end—that the energy of completion is actually a good thing. It’s required for your continued growth. 
5. Next, bring to mind something in your life that you know has reached it’s time to be brought to completion and breathe into the knowingness that to accept impermanence is healthy for your spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical evolution. 
6. Ask yourself what you would need to know in order to feel safe and secure in letting go of anything that no longer serves you. Listen for the answers, allowing them to come forth from your heart or intuition. Trust whatever comes up for you.
7. Now allow yourself to see a vision of what would be possible for you when you let this go. What new possibility awaits you on your path once you let go of the old? Enhance the visual details of your vision (color, contrast, size, and brightness) to be as powerful, as positive, and as rich as possible. 
8. Now that you have had a glimpse into what awaits you, ask your internal wisdom to tell you what action step you need to take in order to prune away any old branches in your life at this time so that you can fully step into this new vision for yourself and your life. Listen for the answers. 
9. As you hear the messages from your heart guiding you in where and how to take action, open your eyes and take out your journal. Begin to record any insight or messages, as well as any action steps you got in your journal. 
10. Close your eyes again, take a few deep breaths, and thank yourself for taking this time to go within and make a commitment to follow through with the action steps you need to take to clear out the old. 

You may often find that letting go of things that have run their course is easier than you may have previously imagined. And, in the case where you weren’t aware that it was time to release something that was ready to be done, it can feel like a massive weight has been lifted off you. Now, it’s up to you to keep your newly pruned path clear to receive new insight, new direction, and infinite possibilities.