2020 has been a big year for all of us. Whether you’re looking to embrace difficult emotions, strengthen your concentration or feel more connected to others, you’ll find our most popular meditations here.
The Most Popular Meditations of 2020
1. A 10-Minute Nourishing Breath Meditation
In this practice, Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein bring our awareness to the breath as an anchor to the present moment. Breathing practice can help cultivate self-love and compassion in accepting things the way they are.
2. A Guided Meditation for Gathering Your Energy
When our minds are distracted, we don’t have access to our full potential of energy and focus. Sharon Salzberg leads this meditation to help strengthen concentration.
Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein March 26, 2020
3. A 10-Minute Practice to Ground, Breathe, Soothe
This grounding practice from Calmer Choice focuses on bringing awareness into the body. This kind of meditation can be a useful tactic for settling feelings of fear and stress.
Sharon Salzberg June 10, 2020
4. A Simple Meditation to Connect With Loving-Kindness
This foundational practice can help you awaken to how we are all inextricably connected. Then, we can open our minds to caring for all the people we’re connected with— even if we don’t like or agree with everything they do.
Calmer Choice August 18, 2020
5. A Guided Walking Meditation to Connect With Your Senses
This simple walking meditation guided by Elaine Smookler is all about bringing awareness to what the body is experiencing as we walk.
Sharon Salzberg August 7, 2020
6. A Guided Meditation to Cultivate Equanimity
Even in the best of times, it can be difficult to nourish even-mindedness. Diana Winston leads us in this practice to rethink the way we relate to negative emotions and triggers so we can manage our reactivity.
Elaine Smookler August 24, 2020
7. A Meditation for Letting Thoughts Float By Like Bubbles
Meditation teacher, Enrique Collazo, leads us in this practice to allow our thoughts to pass, rather than becoming invested in each one. This practice of self-love can awaken us to the spaciousness of awareness.
Diana Winston May 22, 2020
8. A Guided Meditation for Turning Awareness Into Action
Michelle Maldonado, coauthor of A Bridge To Better: An Open Letter to Humanity and Resource Guide, leads this meditation focused on engaging with the world from a place of strength, groundedness, and calm.
Enrique Collazo July 23, 2020
9. The S.T.O.P. Practice: Creating Space Around Automatic Reactions
Rhonda Magee leads this portable mindful practice that can help us find calm when faced with difficult moments.
Michelle Maldonado June 17, 2020
10. A 7-Minute Guided Meditation to Embrace Fear
In this meditation, Loch Kelly guides our awareness within our mind and body to help us accept and work with difficult emotions.
Rhonda Magee March 23, 2020
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