Meditation for Overthinking with Guiding Visuals

Find inner peace and wash away some of your worries with this guided meditation. Dive into the calming waters of your mind and let the healing begin.

This is a guided meditation for people who have been feeling their mind filled with intrusive and/or negative thoughts. For each prompt pick an image and use to enhance visualization. Spend time to meditate and visualize each prompt. Once content, open your eyes, and move to the next. Please remember this meditation is not made to instantly take away all worries, but to aid in the closure of the wounds these worries create within our mind and body.

Let's Get Started!

Picture a body of water within your mind. Picture what energy this water has, where it sits, what color is it? Everyone’s will look different.

Sit here and picture the body of water, feel how it moves and flows within your mind. Do not try to do this perfect, this is an abstract feeling! Simply try your best to feel the water within your mind, then move onto the next prompt.

Is there anyone there with you? If so, who?

Try your best to feel this presence within your mind, whether it is just yourself, your partner, or maybe some animals/wildlife. Think about what this person is doing, feeling, and how they interact with you.

How do you feel?

Meditate your mind at this body of water and the experience it brings you. Keep this space within your mind for this moment.

Breathe in the energy from the water, breathe out weight/negative emotions into the body of water. Imagine the water provides peace of mind and absorbs worries, with each inhale and exhale feel this flow.

Imagine all of the emotions, memories, and feelings in your mind are absorbed by this water. Find a sense of content with the water even if it is a raging storm, with whoever is there even if you would rather them not be, and your emotions towards it all. This does not mean forgive, forget, or move on it simply means to notice what is going on and let yourself settle into that present moment.

Before moving on try your best to find that place of content beside this water, even if just momentarily.

Once content with this small moment of presence, allow the walls of your mind to break and let the water flow out...

The gates to your mind have broken and the water flows its way into your heart. How did the water flow?

What is the temperature of the water?

Let this water fall and flow into your heart. Imagine the water is filling your heart. A place that has lacked life and energy lately. Whether slow drips or turbulent waves, allow yourself as much time as you need to feel this water work it's way from your mind to your heart. Allow some of the thoughts and pressure from your mind to tag along towards your heart.

Tip: Remember the temperature you chose for the water...try to use that to physically feel the sensation filling up your heart for a more somatic meditation.

Once all the water has rushed from your mind to heart, use the waters flow to wash away those loose worries. If they do not wash away, "rinse" and use the energy in the water as a “band-aid” for stronger worries. Allow a feeling of fullness to fill up your heart.

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Once you are ready, let the water fall out of your heart, dissipating. Appreciate the moment but allow the water to wash and fade away, taking some of your most uncomfortable worries with it.

Take a breath in, absorbing the last of the waters calming energy and a strong exhale pushing the rest of the water and worries out of your body, and back into the world...

In this moment, feel the "quiet after the storm" as the water has been flushed out of your mind and body. Feel the closure the water has given you for these emotions.

Take one more breath in, and on the exhale slowly come back to your body,

give yourself a lil shake, and try to continue on! :)

It is ok to not feel completely better. But life has depended on water since the beginning of time. Utilize this evolutionary relationship we have with water to trick your mind into feeling a sense of rejuvenation and rebirth.

(POV: your intrusive thought being washed out to sea)

Namaste,

Thanks for following along! If you want more meditations like this check out the MOD Meditations page on MOD-MIND