Meditation Exercises and Resources

Collection of guided meditation and visualizations to bring about calmness, serenity, healing, and balance.

Learn about the top five meditation tools chosen by our readers in the 2012 Readers' Choice Awards.

Beginning and maintaining a daily meditation practice can be more pleasurable when we include some meditation devices and aids that are meant to help relax us and enhance our overall experience.

This nine day meditation ecourse is meant to help you streamline the meditation process and dedicate a few quiet moments in each day when you can let go of your concerns and just "Be." It is easier that you might think to find inner bliss!

Kirtan Kriya is a meditation chant exercise originating from Kundalini Yoga. Kirtan Kriya involves chanting and using finger poses (mudras).

The Sacred Space Gallery is a showplace of photographs of the places that users submit to share their favorite "sacred spaces." Why not take a snapshot of the meditation corner in your home or an outdoor haven where you retreat to for solace to be displayed in our galler. The intention is to create a collage of serenity and calm.

Can you sit still in the park for thirty minutes? Or, even fifteen minutes?

Guided meditation intended to help break through the physical barrier to reclaim personal power.

The love energy of this heart-centered meditation is soothing and energizing. Feel free to read it out loud into your tape-recorder and experience it for yourself by listening to the healing words in your sacred space.

Metta practice is a meditative and centering practice of well being for yourself and others.

From your About.com Guide - This art form has developed into an exercise meant for relaxation and reduction of stress.

Excerpt from the book Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

The Dhyana mudra is universally used during meditation and relaxed states.

Excerpt from Tulku Thondup's Book "Boundless Healing: Meditation Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body."

Meditative and stress reduction instructional videos.

From your About.com Guide - Cherish your physical body as a place to return safely home to after the spiritual journey, not as a place to run away from.

Readers share stories about their sitting meditation session in a public place. See submissions

Subscribe to Holly Sumner's (author of The Meditation Sourcebook: Meditation for Mortals) discussion list for meditators.

Visual and audio Meditation - mesmerizing deep blue hues with song of sea gulls.

What is the "state of meditation" exactly anyway? ....this question and other about meditation answered by meditation teacher Arthur D. Saftlas.

Science of using the human body and human sexuality as a path to self realization or enlightenment.

Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, the modern founder of Pranic Healing introduced this harminizing love-meditation as a powerful tool for spiritual development.