For me personally yes I like guided meditations. My mind tends to wonder if it’s not guided and when my mind wonders I’m not really meditating properly.
Yes, I do prefer guided meditations. When I am not able to have a guided audio meditation, I remember the past meditation prompts and guide myself or gently bring my attention to my breath.
They are good to start with, because focusing on the guidance prevents you from drifting off to other thoughts, but up ultimately you want to remove that guidance as well.
Most of the time, I do prefer guided meditations. It helps me remain more focussed & it helps me to stay more focussed when I meditate on my own. It’s like, you learn how to first with someone helping you stay in the moment, because they’re always giving guidance. So when you do it alone, that voice is still kind of in your head, keeping you focussed.
I do have a preference for guided meditation because I tend to focus on the visuals of the meditation. I wish there were more of the sleep meditations on this app to help me get better sleep.
Yes! I am new and love the guidance. I find the voice to be very soothing and it keeps me focused on meditating vs my mind going a mile a minute.
Yes I do. I have an app with a wide variety of different guided meditations so I can choose voice, length and special purpose. I prefer guided meditations where the guide leaves enough space for me to get into the meditation.
At first I did but now I prefer meditation that I can do instantly at any time of the day at any place for any length of time. I let how I feel decide the length of the meditation. I will meditate until my jaw stops feeling tense or until my breathing has normalised. I use the meditation to get in touch with myself to learn about what is on my mind. What are going to be my daily distractions. At this moment there are so many that it costs me too much effort to focus on a guided meditation. So for now I am just accepting I have lots of distracting thoughts and I meditate on them and work on getting the most urgent one’s out of the way after the meditation so I can get on with my day.
If I’m starting off my day I’d rather meditate on something that I feel would be helpful. At other times guided ones can be extremely helpful for me. I like to practice guided ones until I can use them on my own.
Yes for sure .. it would help stay consistent. . I love and I enjoy meditation..i am just to build a routine and stick to it
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