Last year when I started having panic attacks, I was desperate to find new stress relief methods, since it was obvious my previous stress relief methods weren’t working.
Before I even found The Greatest Therapist Ever, I started looking for ways to quiet down my racing mind. A friend suggested meditation to me, and I was desperate for a solution other than Xanax, so I tried it.
I don’t always meditate every day, and I don’t always use guided meditations, but I’ve discovered some awesome ones over the past year that I wanted to share with you. Laura asked me for recommendations a few weeks ago, and I figured some of you might find these interesting too.
Meditation Oasis: I started with these podcasts, and they also have an app. I listened to them in the morning, at night and even at work, with headphones. Even when I wasn’t “meditating” (i.e. at work), it was still relaxing to hear the soothing voice.
Gabby Bernstein: She has some great free ones on her site, but I also downloaded one of her meditation albums so that I could listen to it wherever I was.
BexLife: I’m a little biased because she’s a friend of mine, but she’s got some awesome meditations on her site/YouTube.
GPS4Soul: I actually love some of the mental health/mindfulness stuff that the Huffington Post is getting into, and they have a decent app called GPS4Soul, which has a number of guided meditations of all different lengths.
Heather Waxman: Fellow blogger Heather (formerly For the Love of Kale) has some kickass meditations on her site and is releasing a meditation album through a Kickstarter campaign. I think she’s going to do awesome things with it, so I was happy to kick in a little to help fund it.
Do you meditate? What are some of your favorite meditation resources – books, albums, websites? I also discovered this article recently on 5 Meditation Tips for People Who Don’t (Yet) Like to Meditate.
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How cool that you know Bex! I love her stuff!
Thank YOU for sharing! I definitely need to get into meditation but I've never known where to start. While I practice yoga (not as often as I should/would like to), I know I also need a little something MORE.
I knew about some of these, but not some of the others. Good stuff!
The Meditation Oasis podcasts are awesome. I started listening to them after you first wrote about them, and they really helped with the insomnia that I was dealing with at the time. Thanks for posting the other links - I will check them out!
Thanks for posting this! I have always been somewhat of an anxious person and with everything that I have going on right now, I need to find ways to be able to calm myself or I am going to go crazy. I am downloading one of the Meditation Oasis apps right now - I can't wait to give it a try :)
Perfect timing for this post! I have terrible anxiety and have just started researching meditation.
@Meghan: Oh girl, email me if you ever want to chat. xo
Thanks so much for sharing this over at my post on Fit Bottomed Girls! I'm bookmarking this and will definitely check out these resources. It's super helpful!
@Kristen: Great! So glad it could help. Figuring out good meditation resources can get a little overwhelming which, you know, defeats the point :)
Thanks for the resources, a very good list. I don't mean to spam, but I have a website that offers free meditation mp3s for guided meditation, or anything used to relax the mind. IF anyone is interested, you can check it out at http://soundsofhealing.blogspot.com