Guided 15 minute meditation script – release meditation (2022)

Meditation practice has become extremely popular over the last decade. Today, millions of people practice a variety of types and forms of meditation every day. These include Zen meditation, mindfulness meditation, Tibetan Buddhism meditation, meditation for focusing the mind, meditation for relaxation, guided loving-kindness meditation, body scan meditation, guided 15 minute meditation, 10-minute meditation, 5 minutes, or even one minute. That’s just to mention a few!

Most people experience relaxation during guided meditation, reducing stress levels and improving overall health over a period of time. The beauty of guided meditation is its simplicity. It takes only minutes to complete and can provide peace and tranquility in even the busiest of lives. It can provide some people with freedom after trauma or experiences of emotional pain, in some cases, as well as tune us into our mind and body experiences. It helps us approach life with a lot more sensitivity and care.

It’s never too late to begin practicing meditation – and when you do you will notice how it starts to transform your entire life. The guided meditation below is designed to help you along your journey. Feel free to take 15 minutes out of your day to practice and reap the rewards.

This guided 15-minute meditation practice touches on the intention of “Acknowledgment and Release”. To acknowledge our life journey up until now. To look at and draw awareness to the things we dealt with, endured, and overcome in the past and then release those things. To give ourselves a moment of compassion and appreciation, and the knowledge that our past has put us onto the right path for the future.

Experience life in this present and current time you find yourself in – create a break from stress by using meditation as a form of self care. Give yourself a moment of stillness as a pause from your busy life.

Acknowledge and Release – guided meditation 15 minutes

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15 minute guided meditation script

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Hi there, everyone and welcome back to your practice. Welcome back to your meditation today. And thank you for being here.

So when you are ready, you will start and seated position.

Just finding a comfortable seat, wherever you find yourself whether you’re in bed. Maybe you want to sit on the floor or roll out your mat. 

Sitting up nice and tall. Just gently resting your hands on top of your knees. 

And then closing the eyes. Just draw those eyes to close. 

We just start with our gentle breathing. 

So shifting our awareness to our breath. Focusing and drawing our attention to the breath. 

We’re not trying to control anything here. We’re just simply noticing every inhale and every exhale.

Every inhale feel the body fIll up with air feel the gentle rise in the chest. Fell the belly rise. And exhale all the way out.

Allow the breath to ebb and flow through the body. As we intentionally breathe here, feel how the breathing rate slows down. Maybe the breath deepens slightly. 

And really just allow yourself to simply just be there’s nowhere else you need to be only this moment.

And then we’re gonna move through something called a box breath. 

So we seal the lips off, we inhale through the nose for a count of four. Hold at the top for a count of four. Exhale for the count of four. And hold at the bottom for a count of four. 

So when you are ready together, we inhale through the nose 2 3 4. Hold 2 3 4. Exhale 2 3 4. Hold 2 3 4. Inhale 2 3 4. Hold 2 3 4. Exhale 2 3 4. Hold 2 3 4.

So carrying on like this in your own time. And if this is uncomfortable for you, you can lower the counts. It’s just important to keep the inhale, the hold and the exhale, all at the same number of counts.

So we have three more rounds to go.

Just in your own time. 

As you breathe through this box breathing technique, feel how the body calms down. Feel how the nervous system regulates itself.

And then when you have completed your last round, just let that breath control go. Slip back into your normal, natural rhythmic breath. 

Maybe notice if it feels a little bit different than it did before.

Maybe it’s a little lower in the belly.

Maybe there’s a little less tension up in the chest or in the body. Just notice that feeling that feeling of calm and ease.

And then slowly we’re gonna draw our attention to our intention. So that is what we are focusing on today in our meditation. 

Welcoming in an intention for the rest of our week, or if you find yourself on a Monday morning, like myself maybe for the rest of the day.

So this is just simply a word, a phrase, a statement, anything that rings true to you. Anything that you would like to move with and through. Anything you would like to call into your life in this moment. And focusing on an intention, while we meditate is a really nice way to guide ourselves through the rest of the day.

And it also just brings a sense of awareness to our minds, maybe our thoughts that might be floating in our minds. If you would like some sort of an inspiration this morning.

I offer you the idea of acknowledgement and release. This idea of noticing where we’ve been. 

Releasing the past. 

And allowing ourselves to live in the present. 

Releasing any worries of the future, anything that might be on our minds.

And with this intention of acknowledgement and release. I offer you a short reading today. And let these words resonate with you.

And if they don’t just simply let them go.

An acknowledgement to self. 

A letter to self. A peom to self. An offering to self.

An acknowledgement to self. 

An offering to express my recognition. An acknowledgement that I deserve. And this is often something we don’t give ourselves enough of.

The honour, well deserved pat on the back, embrace and love of where I’ve been, where I am now.

And the trust to know where I am going. And being okay with if I don’t.

Looking back, I am proud of myself. Of my experiences and what I have endured.

The internal landscapes I have overcome. 

And the times I’ve gotten myself out of and through, and will continue to do so. 

My transformative journey up to this point. 

An acknowledgement of this journey. 

This journey of surrendering to the changes. 

An acknowledgement of this healing journey…in this moment.

And although it might have been uncomfortable and terrifying in the past, I release all of that, I let it go. And I surrender to this present moment.

I am proud of these journeys.

I am proud of my expression, of delving deep and discovering and rediscovering myself.

I am proud of the softening I have allowed within myself. 

The openness I am starting to become comfortable with. 

The vulnerability.

The breaking down of walls and letting myself out.

The patience I start to cultivate.

The expectations I minimise and release.

The projections I am trying to silence that do not serve me.

This energy that I have created.

I let go of the pressures… internal or external.

I let go of the past and I acknowledge the vast growth I have had and am still having.

I do not fear these changes or growth.

I completely embrace them. 

I am proud of my living human experience. 

I am proud of the lessons I have learnt along the way. 

I am proud of all sides of the complex being I am and the fact that I get to learn from others.

With all that being said, I release that, that does not serve me right now.

So just let those words settle. 

Start to drawyour attention back to your breath.

Notice where you are at.

An then to end our practice off today. Let’s just take one big inhale together through the nose.

Exhale out.

Let it go, release.

And I thank you for being here today for practising your meditation with me. I am so grateful. My heart overflows with gratitude and I hope you acknowledge yourself today as I acknowledge you.

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15 minute guided mindfulness meditation – “Acknowledge and Release”

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