How To Do Guided Meditation

Learn how to do guided meditation with this easy practical guide. In this article I will show you the best guided meditation audios and tips for deeper relaxation. The aim is to improve your self awareness and visualization skills for lucid dreaming. With time you may find yourself slipping directly into the lucid dream state...

Why Use Guided Meditation?

When you first start to meditate you may find it difficult to let go of your inner voice, being plagued by busy thoughts...

"Is it garbage night?"

"Did I set my alarm?"

"I must remember to book the car in for a service."

Arrghhh SHHH brain! Why won't you leave me alone so I can get some peace!?

Yup, it can be very frustrating when your mind is in a busy beta state and all you want to do is relax. It's times like these that meditation alone isn't enough and you need some help... some way to focus... and that's where guided meditation audios come in extremely useful.

Guided meditation is a way of focusing the mind rather than demanding perfect silence when the time isn't right for it. The result is still deeply relaxing and it's ideal for lucid dreaming because you are increasing your self awareness of an inner world - complete with imagined sensory perceptions.

How To Do Guided Meditation

The purpose of guided relaxation is to diffuse your busy thoughts and step into the world of your imagination. So begin by using your visualization skills to create a peaceful place where you can relax undisturbed - a beach, a forest, a tropical garden - anything you like. It usually helps to have a water source (like a lake, waterfall or the sea) and a big, broad landscape so you can focus on mountains or hills in the distance as well as objects up close.

Engage all your senses. See the ocean glittering in the sunlight. Hear the waves lapping at the shore. Feel the warm sand underfoot. Smell the sea salt in the air. This will truly immerse your senses in this daydream land and build your self awareness - perfect for more vivid and lucid dreaming.

Guided Meditation Audios

Often, a self guided meditation can have the same limits as a standard quiet meditation - it's easy for the uninitiated to get distracted. Guided meditation audios are a great solution. I produced this lucid dreaming hypnosis session as part of my beginner's digital course for this effect. Narrated by Gale Van Cott, this deeply relaxing hypnosis recording will lead you into a dreamy trance state whenever you listen.

Once under, you will be guided into a natural wonderland that you will come to visualize in vivid detail, engaging multiple senses. This is your trance-state gateway to a lucid dream. Besides fueling your guided meditation and incubating lucid dream triggers, the recording can even prompt spontaneous lucidity.

What To Do in a Guided Meditation

You will probably find that it feels very comfortable focusing all your awareness on the natural beauty that surrounds you. However, some people take it a little further and use guided meditation as an excellent psychological tool.

Once established in your new surroundings, call into being an imaginary character - it may be yourself from the future, an ancestor, or some other entity you would like to meet. Sit down with them and ask anything you like. Assuming you haven't begun lucid dreaming by this point (it happens!) you may have to consciously speak for them. The point is, in this deeply relaxed state of mind, you are drawing insight and inspiration from your unconscious mind. And in time you may find the other characters start speaking from another place altogether...