✨ 10 Minute Guided Meditation for Beginners | Stepping Stones to Calm – Day 18

Hello, I’m Jenny. Welcome to my cosy little corner of YouTube. 🌿 This 10 minute guided meditation for beginners is Day 18 of Stepping Stones to Calm, a 30-day meditation journey designed especially for beginners — including those of you who have always thought, “I can’t meditate. My brain just doesn’t switch off.” If that sounds like you, you’re absolutely welcome here. Stepping Stones to Calm is about discovering that meditation doesn’t require you to stop thinking or somehow empty your mind. Instead, over the next 30 days, we’ll gently practise noticing our thoughts without needing to follow every one of them. In today’s meditation, I introduce the idea of imagining your thoughts as bubbles. Thoughts can drift into our awareness and drift away again. Some seem to grow bigger when we give them our attention; others gradually become smaller as things resolve or our attention moves elsewhere. Rather than trying to pop them, stop them or make them disappear, we’re simply going to practise noticing them. We’ll begin by bringing our attention to the sounds around us, our breathing and the sensations in the body before moving into around four and a half minutes of quiet meditation, with gentle prompts from me along the way. 🌿 A meditation practice that grows with you As we move through the 30 days, these periods of quiet will gradually contain fewer prompts, giving you more space to develop your own meditation practice. But this is not a strict 30-day challenge and there are no rules about how quickly you need to progress. If you reach a later meditation and your brain feels particularly ping-pingy that day, come back to one of the earlier sessions where I’ll give you a little more guidance. And if you find the early meditations have more prompts than you need, you’re welcome to jump ahead. These meditations aren’t going anywhere. They’re here for you to return to whenever you need a little bit of quiet. Most sessions are around 10 minutes long, so you can fit one into your morning, a break during your working day, or before bed. My hope is that keeping them short and approachable will make it easier to build meditation into everyday life. 🌿 Continue the journey… Full Stepping Stones to Calm playlist:    • Stepping Stones to Calm | 30-Day Meditatio...   🌿 Find out more / work with me Alongside these meditations, I share reflective tarot readings, gentle nervous-system tools and other ways of slowing down and reconnecting with yourself. You can find everything here: https://linktr.ee/down... ☕ Support my work I want to keep creating meditations like these and making them freely available. If my work helps you and you’d like to support the channel and help me continue creating new content, I’d be genuinely grateful for a contribution through Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.c... Whether you donate, subscribe, leave a comment, share a meditation with somebody who needs it, or simply spend ten quiet minutes here with me — thank you for being part of this little corner of YouTube. 💚 Disclaimer: This meditation is intended for relaxation, personal reflection and general wellbeing. It is not a substitute for medical, psychological or psychiatric advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please practise somewhere safe where you do not need to remain alert, such as while driving or operating machinery. If meditation causes you significant distress or discomfort, stop and seek appropriate professional support if needed. #guidedmeditation #meditationforbeginners #10minutemeditation #beginnersmeditation #howtomeditate #meditation #mindfulness #calm #stressrelief #relaxation #steppingstonestocalm #downtearthwellbeing