At Mindful we aim to deliver practical and high-quality resources for our readers so they can build their practice. Meditation and other mindfulness practices have powerful potential to make real change accessible and tangible. Our guided meditations are comprehensive and walk you through the practice step-by-step so that we can meet you where you are, regardless of your level of experience.
2020 has been a big year for all of us. Whether you’re looking to embrace difficult emotions, strengthen your concentration or feel more connected to others, you’ll find our most popular meditations here.
The Most Popular Meditations of 2020
1. A 10-Minute Nourishing Breath Meditation
10-Minute Nourishing Breath Meditation
In this practice, Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein bring our awareness to the breath as an anchor to the present moment. Breathing practice can help cultivate self-love and compassion in accepting things the way they are.
10-Minute Nourishing Breath Meditation
The deepest healing occurs when you come to terms with the way things are. This simple awareness of breath practice is an act of self-love and compassion for the moment we find ourselves in.
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2. A Guided Meditation for Gathering Your Energy
9-Minute Meditation to Gather Your Energy
When our minds are distracted, we don’t have access to our full potential of energy and focus. Sharon Salzberg leads this meditation to help strengthen concentration.
A Guided Meditation for Gathering Your Energy
Sharon Salzberg shares this meditation for energy and helping to strengthen concentration so you can focus with more ease.
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3. A 10-Minute Practice to Ground, Breathe, Soothe
10-Minute Practice to Ground, Breathe, Soothe
This grounding practice from Calmer Choice focuses on bringing awareness into the body. This kind of meditation can be a useful tactic for settling feelings of fear and stress.
10-Minute Practice to Ground, Breathe, Soothe
Allow stressed and fearful emotions to dissipate with this calming, guided practice.
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4. A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness
10-Minute Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness
This foundational practice can help you awaken to how we are all inextricably connected. Then, we can open our minds to caring for all the people we’re connected with— even if we don’t like or agree with everything they do.
A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness, from Sharon Salzberg
This classic loving-kindness meditation can help you to awaken to how connected we all are. You don’t have to like everybody, or agree with everything they do—but you can open up to the possibility of caring for them, because our lives are inextricably linked.
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5. A Guided Walking Meditation to Connect With Your Senses
17-Minute Mindful Walking Practice to Connect with Your Senses
This simple walking meditation guided by Elaine Smookler is all about bringing awareness to what the body is experiencing as we walk.
A Guided Walking Meditation to Connect with Your Senses
Mindful walking can be a way to awaken our delight as we notice the sights, smells, and sounds in our surroundings.
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6. A Guided Meditation to Cultivate Equanimity
13-Minute Meditation to Cultivate Equanimity
Even in the best of times, it can be difficult to nourish even-mindedness. Diana Winston leads us in this practice to rethink the way we relate to negative emotions and triggers so we can manage our reactivity.
A 15-Minute Meditation to Cultivate Equanimity
Diana Winston leads a guided practice to find even-mindedness and balance in uncertain times.
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7. A Meditation for Letting Thoughts Float By Like Bubbles
27-Minute Meditation to Observe the Wandering Mind
Meditation teacher, Enrique Collazo, leads us in this practice to allow our thoughts to pass, rather than becoming invested in each one. This practice of self-love can awaken us to the spaciousness of awareness.
A Meditation for Letting Thoughts Float By Like Bubbles
Meditation teacher Enrique Collazo guides a practice for observing the wandering mind and allowing each thought to pass.
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8. A Guided Meditation for Turning Awareness Into Action
13-Minute Meditation for Turning Awareness into Action
Michelle Maldonado, coauthor of A Bridge To Better: An Open Letter to Humanity and Resource Guide, leads this meditation focused on engaging with the world from a place of strength, groundedness, and calm.
A Guided Meditation for Turning Awareness into Action
Michelle Maldonado shares a practice for strengthening our ability to be self-aware, self-actualized, and self-determined as we co-create our emerging new reality and world together.
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9. The S.T.O.P. Practice: Creating Space Around Automatic Reactions
4-Minute Four-Minute S.T.O.P. Practice
Rhonda Magee leads this portable mindful practice that can help us find calm when faced with difficult moments.
The S.T.O.P. Practice: Creating Space Around Automatic Reactions
Rhonda Magee takes us through this simple portable mindfulness practice she uses to find calm when difficult moments arise.
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10. A 7-Minute Guided Meditation to Embrace Fear
A 7-Minute Guided Meditation to Embrace Fear
In this meditation, Loch Kelly guides our awareness within our mind and body to help us accept and work with difficult emotions.
A 7-Minute Guided Meditation to Embrace Fear
Loch Kelly guides a short meditation to welcome any difficult emotions that may arise during this challenging time.
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The Best Mindfulness Books of 2020
The Mindful editors look back on their favourite books from this year, covering diverse topics such as mindful eating, the truth of belonging, and emotional resilience.
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Celebrating International Women’s Day: 10 Meditations by Powerful Women
We gathered 10 of the most popular women-led mindfulness practices led by the powerful women of the mindfulness movement.
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A 15-Minute Meditation for Patience and Resolve
Developing a sense of equanimity is difficult—even in the best of times. This guided meditation from Mark Bertin offers a quiet moment to be patient with ourselves as we navigate discomfort and uncertainty together.
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A 12-Minute Meditation to Widen Your Perspective
This guided mindfulness practice helps us relax and see the full scope of the possibilities in front of us.
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