# Inner Peace Meditations

> Short guided meditations for minds that won't be quiet, from Steven Webb. Morning meditations, evening wind-downs and help for anxious, racing thoughts.

Guided meditations with Steven Webb. 118 meditations, the newest from 28 October 2026.
Every meditation below links to a markdown copy of its page: show notes, the longer write-up, common questions and the full transcript. The web page is the same address without ".md".

## About

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## Anxiety & Stress

- [Mind Full, Hands Full: A Meditation for Overwhelm](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/mind-full-hands-full-a-meditation-for-overwhelm.md): For when your mind is full and both hands are already carrying too much. You don't need to empty it. Just find a little more room. (Meditation 117, 12 min, 23 October 2026)
- [Wisdom Within the Storm: A Meditation for Chaotic Times](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/wisdom-within-the-storm-a-meditation-for-chaotic-times.md): For the storm you can't stop. Instead of fighting it or bracing against it, sit down in the middle and stay steady. (Meditation 116, 8 min, 11 October 2026)
- [When the News Is Too Much: A Meditation to Care and Still Rest](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/when-the-news-is-too-much-a-meditation-to-care-and-still-rest.md): When the news lands heavy and there's nothing you can do. Breathe in what's hard, breathe out a wish for them to be safe. (Meditation 115, 12 min, 4 October 2026)
- [Calm Inside the Not Knowing: A Meditation for Uncertainty](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/calm-inside-the-not-knowing-a-meditation-for-uncertainty.md): Waiting to hear back, and the mind keeps playing out how it might go? A meditation for the fear of not knowing what comes next. (Meditation 112, 11 min, 10 September 2026)
- [Morning Meditation for Health Anxiety and Befriending the Worried Part](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-meditation-for-health-anxiety-and-befriending-the-worried-part.md): Some mornings the worry gets there before your feet hit the floor. This one gives it company instead of an argument. (Meditation 110, 12 min, 2 August 2026)
- [Anger Comes From Caring, A Meditation to Respond Wisely](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/anger-comes-from-caring-a-meditation-to-respond-wisely.md): I have never met an angry person who did not care deeply about something. Even if it is only a parking space. (Meditation 109, 10 min, 27 July 2026)
- [When Anxiety Visits: A Quick Meditation for Anxious Moments](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/when-anxiety-visits-a-quick-meditation-for-anxious-moments.md): You pressed play because it is already here. So we are not getting rid of it. We are answering the door. (Meditation 101, 7 min, 3 May 2026)
- [Stop the World... I Want to Get off](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off.md): For when the world is going too fast. You slow yourself down first, then let everything else follow you. (Meditation 89, 12 min, 5 January 2026)
- [Simple Meditation for Overwhelm](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/simple-meditation-for-overwhelm.md): I recorded this while I was overwhelmed. So it is not a technique I am teaching you, it is the thing I actually do, done out loud with you. (Meditation 64, 13 min, 28 July 2024)
- [Finding Stillness in Difficult Times – Mountain Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/finding-stillness-in-difficult-times-mountain-meditation.md): The weather changes. The mountain does not. An old meditation of mine, back by request, for when everything outside you is going off. (Meditation 60, 18 min, 7 June 2024)
- [The Anxiety Companion Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-anxiety-companion-meditation.md): Your anxiety is not the enemy. It is a jumpy friend trying to keep you safe, and sometimes it gets it wrong. This one sits you both down. (Meditation 55, 15 min, 27 March 2024)
- [Your Emotional Safe Haven](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/your-emotional-safe-haven.md): You build a safe place, then you build a way back into it. A touch, a necklace, a hand in a pocket. Something you can do in a crowded room. (Meditation 40, 15 min, 21 October 2023)
- [A Journey to Inner Calm and Love](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-journey-to-inner-calm-and-love.md): Loving kindness, and then the awkward bit where you turn it back on yourself. (Meditation 37, 13 min, 6 October 2023)
- [Perfect Meditation for the Toughest Days](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/perfect-meditation-for-the-toughest-days.md): For the day you already know is going to be hard. Best done before it starts. (Meditation 33, 14 min, 30 August 2023)
- [Instant Anxiety Relief The Peaceful Pause Guided Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/instant-anxiety-relief-the-peaceful-pause-guided-meditation.md): Anxiety is a message, not an emergency. You do not have to do anything with it. Sit with it a few minutes and watch the room go quiet. (Meditation 23, 8 min, 20 May 2023)
- [My Peaceful Place (Guided Meditation for Timeout)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/my-peaceful-place-guided-meditation-for-timeout.md): Not escaping the moment. Bringing some calm into it, and then taking that out into the rest of the day. (Meditation 8, 10 min, 16 April 2021)
- [Forest of Curiosity (Reduce Anxiety and Stress)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/forest-of-curiosity-reduce-anxiety-and-stress.md): A forest where nothing in it will hurt you. Everything you meet is friendly, and you have nowhere to be afterwards. (Meditation 7, 12 min, 1 April 2021)
- [Guided Meditation to Reduce Stress and Anxiety](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/guided-meditation-to-reduce-stress-and-anxiety.md): The simplest one I have, and probably the most effective. Breathe in calm, breathe out relax. That is the whole thing. (Meditation 4, 7 min, 17 March 2021)

## Busy Minds & Overthinking

- [Nothing to Get Right: A Peace Meditation With Little Instruction](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/nothing-to-get-right-a-peace-meditation-with-little-instruction.md): Tired of being told how to breathe? This one barely says a word. Nothing to get right, nothing to get wrong. (Meditation 114, 10 min, 20 September 2026)
- [A Meditation to Quiet an Overthinking Mind](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/become-the-watcher-a-meditation-to-quiet-an-overthinking-mind.md): A quiet railway station and a bench with room for two. The trains are your thoughts, and we are not getting on. (Meditation 106, 8 min, 18 June 2026)
- [Create Space Around Your Thoughts](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/create-space-around-your-thoughts.md): Imagine a small shed with the door shut. Every thought in there feels loud and urgent, because there is nowhere for it to go. (Meditation 105, 14 min, 7 June 2026)
- [Peace Right Where You Are](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/peace-right-where-you-are.md): Six minutes, and it works in a waiting room. You have not failed because a thought turned up. You were never meant to stop them. (Meditation 99, 6 min, 19 April 2026)
- [Meditation to Dealing With Intrusive Thoughts](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/meditation-to-dealing-with-intrusive-thoughts.md): Intrusive thoughts are not stopped, they are starved. Your mind only watches for two things: did it make you feel something, and did you go with it. (Meditation 91, 14 min, 15 February 2026)
- [Out Of Your Head, into Peace](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/out-of-your-head-into-peace.md): A short drop out of the head and into the heart, for the moment you are stuck in noise with nothing you can usefully solve. (Meditation 82, 4 min, 9 August 2025)
- [Afternoon Stillness for a Busy Mind](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/afternoon-stillness-for-a-busy-mind.md): Recorded late in my own afternoon with too much still on the list. Five minutes to settle before the evening. (Meditation 77, 6 min, 14 June 2025)
- [A Dharma Meditation Beyond Overthinking](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-dharma-meditation-beyond-overthinking.md): Shikantaza, which is Zen for just sitting. You do not fight the thoughts, suppress them or work them out. You just stop boarding them. (Meditation 76, 14 min, 8 June 2025)
- [Disconnect from Overthinking and Find Peace in the Present Moment](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/disconnect-from-overthinking-and-find-peace-in-the-present-moment.md): Turn the phone face down. Eight minutes of the actual world instead of the one on the screen. (Meditation 72, 8 min, 15 March 2025)
- [Uncomplicated Calm: Meditation for Everyday Peace (With Music)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/uncomplicated-calm-meditation-for-everyday-peace-with-music.md): Ten years of teaching and this is still the one I would keep. Sit, be aware, do nothing with any of it. (Meditation 63, 15 min, 8 July 2024)
- [Peace for your Overactive Mind](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/peace-for-your-overactive-mind.md): Your mind is not broken for being loud. It is a sky, and the thoughts are weather crossing it. (Meditation 62, 15 min, 30 June 2024)
- [Returning to Your Breath for Calm and Peace](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/returning-to-your-breath-for-calm-and-peace.md): Deliberately simple, so you can take it anywhere. The car, the corridor outside a meeting, the kitchen with a child pulling at your hand. (Meditation 56, 12 min, 1 April 2024)
- [Calming Strong and Persistent Thoughts](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/calming-strong-and-persistent-thoughts.md): For the thought that will not shift. The stubborn one that keeps coming back no matter what you try. (Meditation 50, 14 min, 14 February 2024)
- [Simple Calmness: When Meditation Is Difficult](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/simple-calmness-when-meditation-is-difficult.md): I am a terrible meditator. Still am, after ten years. So I broke it into four steps and stopped trying to do the lot at once. (Meditation 45, 15 min, 3 January 2024)
- [Simple Calm Awareness Meditation for Inner Peace](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/simple-calm-awareness-meditation-for-inner-peace.md): For people who find meditation hard. No silencing anything, no forty minutes on a cushion. We just use sound. (Meditation 44, 14 min, 5 December 2023)
- [Beyond Thoughts and Emotions: The Serene Observer](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/beyond-thoughts-and-emotions-the-serene-observer.md): There is a difference between I am depressed and I am feeling depressed. This whole meditation lives in that gap. (Meditation 43, 12 min, 21 November 2023)
- [A Meditation for When Relaxation Seems Impossible](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-meditation-for-when-relaxation-seems-impossible.md): I recorded this because I did not want to meditate and had been putting it off. So we do it together and I keep it short. (Meditation 39, 10 min, 19 October 2023)
- [Embracing the Moment: A Duck Pond Meditation [Recorded Live]](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/embracing-the-moment-a-duck-pond-meditation-recorded-live.md): Recorded on a bench by the duck pond, birds and all. Proof that this does not need a cushion, a candle or a quiet room. (Meditation 27, 13 min, 25 June 2023)
- [The Observer at the River’s Edge: Inner Peace for Busy Minds](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-observer-at-the-rivers-edge-inner-peace-for-busy-minds.md): I wrote this one for myself, because my mind never stops. It is still the one I use when I need the noise turned down. (Meditation 25, 13 min, 5 June 2023)
- [Journey to Profound Awareness: A Meditation for Deep Insight](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/journey-to-profound-awareness-a-meditation-for-deep-insight.md): Awareness has one job. To be aware. Not to be aware and then do something about it. The simplest meditation I teach, and the one that changes most. (Meditation 21, 14 min, 30 April 2023)

## Morning

- [Morning: A lighter start to the day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-a-lighter-start-to-the-day.md): We wake up already braced. This is ten minutes before any of it starts, when there is genuinely nothing to carry yet. (Meditation 107, 10 min, 25 June 2026)
- [A Morning Meditation for the Body You Wake Into](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-morning-meditation-for-the-body-you-wake-into.md): Stay lying down for this one. We go through the body asking each part the same question: what do you need today? (Meditation 102, 9 min, 17 May 2026)
- [Good Morning: Breathing Together Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/good-morning-breathing-together-meditation.md): Nobody else in the world is breathing this exact breath. Then we widen out until half the country is breathing with you. (Meditation 95, 14 min, 31 March 2026)
- [Morning Abundance: Seeing What Was Always There](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-abundance-seeing-what-was-always-there.md): Not the abundance you are told to chase. The kind already in the room, that you stopped seeing years ago. (Meditation 92, 13 min, 1 March 2026)
- [Morning Stillness for a Tough Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-stillness-for-a-tough-day.md): You already know today is going to be hard. You came anyway, and that takes something. (Meditation 90, 10 min, 4 February 2026)
- [Your Morning Calm - Guided Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/your-morning-calm.md): For the kitchen table with a cup of tea, before anyone needs anything from you. (Meditation 87, 13 min, 12 November 2025)
- [Morning Bloom: A Powerful Meditation to Open the Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-bloom-a-powerful-meditation-to-open-the-day.md): The lotus never asks the water to be clear before it rises. You do not need the world sorted before you open. (Meditation 96, 13 min, 25 October 2025)
- [Morning Stillness for a Peaceful, Resilient Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-stillness-for-a-peaceful-resilient-day.md): You become an old tree. Not to feel strong, but to notice the roots were already down there doing the work. (Meditation 70, 10 min, 31 January 2025)
- [Morning Stillness: A Simple Guided Meditation for Insight, Wisdom, and Compassion](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-stillness-a-simple-guided-meditation-for-insight-wisdom-and-compassion.md): This is the one I actually do every morning. Seven minutes, nothing clever in it, and it sets the whole day. (Meditation 68, 7 min, 12 December 2024)
- [Morning Meditation to Calmly Face a Busy Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-meditation-to-calmly-face-a-busy-day.md): Overwhelm is usually you reaching too far forward, trying to hold the entire day at once before any of it has happened. (Meditation 66, 10 min, 13 November 2024)
- [Morning Meditation to Energize Body and Mind](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-meditation-to-energize-body-and-mind.md): Calm does not have to mean flat. This is the morning one for waking the whole thing up, energy and excitement included. (Meditation 58, 13 min, 26 May 2024)
- [Morning: Confidence and Self Belief Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-confidence-and-self-belief-meditation.md): You stand in front of a mirror and the person looking back is the confident version. Not a stranger, just you with the volume up. (Meditation 49, 12 min, 7 February 2024)
- [Morning Meditation: Finding Joy in Every Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-meditation-finding-joy-in-every-day.md): Three things, in a set order. An object, a person, and something you actually pulled off recently. (Meditation 34, 15 min, 7 September 2023)
- [[No Intro] A New Day: Rise and Shine Guided Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/no-intro-a-new-day-rise-and-shine-guided-meditation.md): The same Rise and Shine meditation, with the introduction cut off. Press play and you are straight into it. (Meditation 30, 11 min, 18 July 2023)
- [A New Day: Rise and Shine Guided Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-new-day-rise-and-shine-guided-meditation.md): Clear the morning fog, then a golden light through the crown of your head, then one intention you carry out of the door. (Meditation 29, 12 min, 18 July 2023)
- [Morning Serenity: A Meditation for Energy, Confidence, and Gratitude](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-serenity-a-meditation-for-energy-confidence-and-gratitude.md): Energy, confidence and gratitude in one morning sit. Best done daily for a fortnight, until you can run it yourself without me. (Meditation 24, 12 min, 29 May 2023)
- [Sunrise Gratitude: Welcoming a New Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/sunrise-gratitude-welcoming-a-new-day.md): Gratitude before the day gets hold of you. Four rounds of it: your body, your people, your place, and the things that happened to you. (Meditation 19, 12 min, 5 April 2023)
- [Starting the Day with Peace and Confidence](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/starting-the-day-with-peace-and-confidence.md): For the morning you have to walk into something and would rather not. A forest at sunrise, and a stone to stand on until you feel steady. (Meditation 16, 7 min, 24 February 2023)
- [Grateful and A Positive Start To Your Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/grateful-and-a-positive-start-to-your-day.md): Four things to be grateful for, in order. A person, an object, something you are going through, and one thing about today. (Meditation 14, 13 min, 15 January 2023)
- [Morning Gratitude for Yourself and All](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/morning-gratitude-for-yourself-and-all.md): Gratitude only works once it becomes a habit. Do this one for a few weeks, until you can run it without me. (Meditation 5, 10 min, 18 March 2021)

## Healing & Self-Compassion

- [Struggling With the Mirror? Body Acceptance Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/struggling-with-the-mirror-body-acceptance-meditation.md): For anyone who finds the mirror hard. You don't have to love your body tonight, maybe not ever. Just a little peace and acceptance. (Meditation 118, 11 min, 28 October 2026)
- [Soften the Self-Blame: A Gentle Morning Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/soften-the-self-blame-a-gentle-morning-meditation.md): Woke up replaying something you said or did? A gentle morning meditation for the voice inside that says it was your fault. (Meditation 111, 10 min, 8 September 2026)
- [The Second Arrow: A Meditation to Reduce Your Suffering](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-second-arrow-a-meditation-to-reduce-your-suffering.md): Life fires the first arrow. We fire the next thirty. And unlike life, we never miss. (Meditation 108, 10 min, 25 July 2026)
- [For The One Who Carries Others](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/for-the-one-who-carries-others.md): For the carer, the parent, the one everyone rings late at night. Eleven minutes where you are not holding anybody. (Meditation 104, 11 min, 6 June 2026)
- [Permission to Rest: A meditation for time out](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/permission-to-rest-a-meditation-for-time-out.md): Not sleepy tired. The kind where you have been running on empty far too long and cannot remember when you last stopped. (Meditation 98, 13 min, 11 April 2026)
- [Find the Green Shoot: A Meditation for Quiet Renewal](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/find-the-green-shoot-a-meditation-for-quiet-renewal.md): Something in you went quiet a while back. Not broken, just dormant. This is a meditation about noticing it stir. (Meditation 97, 15 min, 5 April 2026)
- [The Embrace of Your Inner Parent](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-embrace-of-your-inner-parent.md): We give better advice to other people than we ever give ourselves. Twelve minutes of turning that round. (Meditation 84, 12 min, 5 September 2025)
- [When You Feel Like It’s Never Enough: A Meditation for the Overwhelmed Soul](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/when-you-feel-like-its-never-enough-a-meditation-for-the-overwhelmed-soul.md): When everyone says you are doing enough and something inside you still says you are falling short. This is a place to rest, not to fix. (Meditation 73, 14 min, 31 March 2025)
- [Whole Body Gratitude and Healing](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/whole-body-gratitude-and-healing.md): You go through the body and actually talk to it. Hi toes, how are you? Then you wait, and you listen to what comes back. (Meditation 48, 16 min, 2 February 2024)
- [Enchanted Garden: Healing from Heartbreak and Emotional Pain](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/enchanted-garden-healing-from-heartbreak-and-emotional-pain.md): For heartbreak, and for pain that has been sat there a while. A neglected garden, and a watering can with your name on it. (Meditation 28, 12 min, 29 June 2023)
- [Healing and Loving Your Inner Child](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/healing-and-loving-your-inner-child.md): You cannot change what happened. You can change how it sits in you. This one sets up a room where the younger you gets what they needed. (Meditation 3, 14 min, 15 March 2021)

## Confidence & Self-Worth

- [The Garden of Your Heart: A Meditation to Uncover Your Inner Strengths](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-garden-of-your-heart-a-meditation-to-uncover-your-inner-strengths.md): Nothing gets built in this one. You walk round a garden finding the strengths that were already growing in it. (Meditation 85, 14 min, 20 September 2025)
- [Building Confidence within Vulnerability](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/building-confidence-within-vulnerability.md): Vulnerability is a door, not a hole. This one brings two more of your voices along to walk through it with you. (Meditation 67, 13 min, 27 November 2024)
- [Peregrine Falcon: A Journey of Confidence and Calm - Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/peregrine-falcon-a-journey-of-confidence-and-calm-meditation.md): There are peregrines nesting on the cathedral down the road from me. I sat in town one day wondering what one of them sees, and made this. (Meditation 61, 15 min, 15 June 2024)
- [I Am Enough Meditation (Simple and Direct)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/i-am-enough-meditation-simple-and-direct.md): For the days you feel you are not enough. Ten short lines, said plainly, no build up. The last one is the title. (Meditation 57, 14 min, 22 April 2024)
- [A Meditation to Connect with Your Inner Wisdom](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-meditation-to-connect-with-your-inner-wisdom.md): For when you know the answer is in there somewhere and you cannot get at it. A walk to a clearing, to meet the wise one you already are. (Meditation 52, 13 min, 21 February 2024)
- [Afternoon Lunchtime Boost: Confidence, Energy, and Joy](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/afternoon-lunchtime-boost-confidence-energy-and-joy.md): The afternoon dip, when there is still half a day left and not much left in you. Eleven minutes to get some back. (Meditation 35, 12 min, 21 September 2023)
- [Mindbody Reset Meditation for Calm, Wisdom, and Confidence](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/mindbody-reset-meditation-for-calm-wisdom-and-confidence.md): A reset for the middle of the day, wherever you happen to be. Sat at a desk, sat in the car, it does not matter. (Meditation 32, 13 min, 9 August 2023)
- [Ocean’s Embrace: Dissolving Self-Doubt](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/oceans-embrace-dissolving-self-doubt.md): The waves do the work here. Each one pulls a bit of the doubt out with the sand and leaves something steadier behind. (Meditation 20, 11 min, 21 April 2023)
- [Wildflower Wisdom: Embrace your TRUE SELF and build CONFIDENCE](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/wildflower-wisdom-embrace-your-true-self-and-build-confidence.md): A meadow full of wildflowers, not one of them worrying about the others. Nine minutes on being one of them. (Meditation 17, 9 min, 9 March 2023)
- [Building Confidence and Inner Wisdom](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/building-confidence-and-inner-wisdom.md): For the day you have a decision to make and no confidence in yourself to make it. (Meditation 15, 10 min, 14 February 2023)
- [Resilience and Confidence Tree Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/resilience-and-confidence-tree-meditation.md): One oak, a few hundred years old, alone in the middle of a field. Then you stop looking at it and become it. (Meditation 11, 8 min, 10 October 2021)
- [Discover the Infinite Possibilities of Your True Self](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/discover-the-infinite-possibilities-of-your-true-self.md): Who is doing the observing? There is no answer, and the more confused you get, the closer you probably are. (Meditation 6, 12 min, 25 March 2021)

## Letting Go & Acceptance

- [When Letting Go Feels Impossible, Try This Instead](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/when-letting-go-feels-impossible-try-this-instead.md): Try to let go of a thought right now. Really try. It is still there, and now you are annoyed about it as well. (Meditation 93, 16 min, 7 March 2026)
- [Trust Your Path: A Gentle Meditation for Times of Change](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/trust-your-path-a-gentle-meditation-for-times-of-change.md): For when you have been doing everything right and nothing seems to be moving. Progress is often invisible while it is happening. (Meditation 86, 12 min, 2 November 2025)
- [The Open Hand of Allowing: A Meditation for Releasing Attachments](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-open-hand-of-allowing-a-meditation-for-releasing-attachments.md): Make a fist round the thing you are clinging to, then open your hand. Notice it does not fly off. That is the whole lesson. (Meditation 80, 11 min, 27 July 2025)
- [The Freedom of Forgiveness: Letting Go For Yourself](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-freedom-of-forgiveness-letting-go-for-yourself.md): Forgiveness is not for them. You do it to stop drinking the poison and waiting for someone else to feel ill. (Meditation 78, 11 min, 6 July 2025)
- [Self Acceptance, the Zen Way](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/self-acceptance-the-zen-way.md): Zen does not fix your life. It stops you needing to. A short talk and a sit, for anyone tired of working on themselves. (Meditation 75, 12 min, 19 May 2025)
- [That Awesome Do Nothing Meditation – Reduce Stress and Deeper Insight](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/that-awesome-do-nothing-meditation-reduce-stress-and-deeper-insight.md): No goal here. Nothing to achieve. Not even relaxing, because that would be doing something. Easier said than done, and I know it. (Meditation 54, 14 min, 8 March 2024)
- [The Simple Zen Path to Letting Go](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-simple-zen-path-to-letting-go.md): As a boy I filled my pockets with pebbles off Perranporth beach, and I would not let anyone near them. Not even to call them stones. (Meditation 41, 17 min, 13 November 2023)
- [Embracing Change Through Nature’s Guidance](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/embracing-change-through-natures-guidance.md): The forest of uncertainty, which is a grand name for everything you do not yet know. Twelve minutes of walking into it anyway. (Meditation 31, 12 min, 25 July 2023)

## Quick Calm

- [Quickly Back to Calm – A Gentle 3 Minute Reset](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/quickly-back-to-calm-a-gentle-3-minute-reset.md): Three minutes, sitting or standing, for the moment it has all got a bit much and you cannot leave the room. (Meditation 81, 3 min, 2 August 2025)
- [A Heartfelt Pause: 3 Minutes to Inner Peace](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-heartfelt-pause-3-minutes-to-inner-peace.md): Three minutes, and most of it is a warm light spreading out from you until it has gone right round the world. (Meditation 38, 3 min, 8 October 2023)
- [3 Minutes Peaceful Pause: When you need calmness fast!](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/3-minutes-peaceful-pause-when-you-need-calmness-first.md): No time for a retreat, a cave, or twenty minutes on a cushion. Four minutes, wherever you are standing right now. (Meditation 26, 4 min, 20 June 2023)
- [The 5-Minute Reset: A Simple Meditation for Busy Minds](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-5-minute-reset-a-simple-meditation-for-busy-minds.md): The meditation for non meditators and anyone who cannot shut their head up. Five minutes, and it works by not trying. (Meditation 18, 5 min, 28 March 2023)
- [Stressed to Calm in 5 Minutes (includes wave sounds)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/stressed-to-calm-in-5-minutes-includes-wave-sounds.md): Five minutes from wound up to ready. Do it in the car, on the edge of the bed, or at the kitchen table. (Meditation 9, 2 min, 6 May 2021)

## Sleep & Bedtime

- [Evening Meditation: Letting the Day Settle Down](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/evening-meditation-letting-the-day-settle-down.md): The day is still in your jaw and your shoulders. Six minutes to put it down by the door instead of carrying it up to bed. (Meditation 103, 6 min, 28 May 2026)
- [The Garden for Deep Sleep - (A Sleep Meditation)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-garden-for-deep-sleep-a-sleep-meditation.md): A walled garden that only grows at night, and only while somebody is resting in it. Tonight that is you. (Meditation 100, 30 min, 26 April 2026)
- [A Simple Meditation for Deep Sleep](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-simple-meditation-for-deep-sleep.md): Falling asleep is not something you do. It is something you allow. Eight minutes of getting out of the way. (Meditation 71, 12 min, 5 February 2025)
- [Journey to Deep Sleep: A Guided Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/journey-to-deep-sleep-a-guided-meditation.md): Built to put you under, so not while you are driving. A countdown you are not meant to finish. (Meditation 22, 25 min, 14 May 2023)
- [Relaxing after a Busy Day](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/relaxing-after-a-busy-day.md): You have not stopped all day. This is the wind down, before the evening properly starts. (Meditation 13, 8 min, 11 January 2023)
- [Deep Sleep Affirmations Perfect for Falling to Sleep](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/affirmations-for-falling-to-sleep.md): Nothing to picture and nowhere to walk. Just short lines, said twice, until your mind stops arguing about whether it is safe to sleep. (Meditation 10, 16 min, 14 May 2021)
- [Deep Sleep Guided Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/deep-sleep-guided-meditation.md): Tense and release, a countdown from ten, then a slow walk by a river where you throw the day in. (Meditation 2, 59 min, 8 March 2021)

## Sleep Stories

- [Falling Asleep By The Sea – A Sleep Story Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/falling-asleep-by-the-sea-a-sleep-story-meditation.md): An evening beach with nobody on it, the sand still warm, and a dune to lie down in. (Meditation 88, 50 min, 26 November 2025)
- [The Lantern Path: Deep Sleep Journey](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-lantern-path-deep-sleep-journey.md): Lights off, phone face down. A lantern path up a hill, and music that fades to nothing while you go under. (Meditation 83, 61 min, 7 September 2025)
- [Kids Sleep Story: The Lost Pillow and Friends](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/kids-sleep-story-the-lost-pillow-and-friends.md): A bedtime story for children. A lost pillow, a forest at night, and six animals who all know where it is and come along anyway. (Meditation 59, 31 min, 31 May 2024)
- [Secret Life of a Raindrop: Ultimate Sleep Story](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/secret-life-of-a-raindrop-ultimate-sleep-story.md): A sleep story written so you never hear the end of it. A raindrop leaves a cloud, and I get quieter as it goes. (Meditation 46, 60 min, 10 January 2024)
- [Sleep Soundly: Lake of Tranquillity](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/sleep-soundly-lake-of-tranquillity.md): A rowing boat, a slow river, and a lake that goes still in the middle. You are meant to be gone by then. (Meditation 36, 40 min, 26 September 2023)
- [Guided Deep Sleep Meditation Story (Peaceful Meadow)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/guided-deep-sleep-meditation-story-peaceful-meadow.md): A meadow at sunset with the light going orange and pink, and nowhere at all to be. (Meditation 12, 36 min, 7 January 2023)
- [The Log Cabin: Deep Sleep Meditation](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/the-log-cabin-deep-sleep-meditation.md): A log cabin on the side of a mountain, a fire already going, and a book you have read a hundred times before. (Meditation 1, 23 min, 7 March 2021)

## Gratitude & Joy

- [Awakening the Child Within: A Window of Wonder](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/awakening-the-child-within-a-window-of-wonder.md): Rumi said sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Fifteen minutes at a window, not understanding anything on purpose. (Meditation 94, 15 min, 15 March 2026)
- [Stillness by the Sea: Ageing Gracefully with Gratitude](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/stillness-by-the-sea-ageing-gracefully-with-gratitude.md): For the aches you have started apologising for. A weathered bench above a beach, and two younger versions of you already sitting on it. (Meditation 79, 15 min, 15 July 2025)
- [Expanding Your Circle of Love](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/expanding-your-circle-of-love.md): I use this one when I feel myself contracting, usually because of other people. A circle that keeps getting wider. (Meditation 74, 12 min, 4 May 2025)
- [Evening Meditation: Peaceful Reflection and Gratitude](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/evening-meditation-peaceful-reflection-and-gratitude.md): A quiet walk back through your day at the end of it. The good bits and the hard bits, both worth a thank you before you sleep. (Meditation 53, 13 min, 24 February 2024)
- [Finding Joy in the Present Moment (Short and Simple)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/finding-joy-in-the-present-moment-short-and-simple.md): Six minutes on the idea that there is already some joy in this moment, waiting to be found rather than built. (Meditation 42, 6 min, 15 November 2023)

## Specials

- [A New Year’s Message of Love and Vulnerability (not a meditation)](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-new-years-message-of-love-and-vulnerability-not-a-meditation.md): A New Year message about needing people. I cannot put a jumper on without help, and it took me most of my life to stop saying no thanks. (Meditation 69, 9 min, 31 December 2024)
- [A Special Update: 500 Miles and a Heavy Heart – Philosophical Musings from the Road](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/a-special-update-500-miles-and-a-heavy-heart-philosophical-musings-from-the-road.md): I was on the road doing 500 miles in my wheelchair for the air ambulance when I got the message that a friend had died. (Meditation 65, 17 min, 15 September 2024)
- [How to Meditate: Even If You Think You Can't](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/how-to-meditate-even-if-you-think-you-cant.md): I could not meditate for twenty years. Too fidgety, mind like a firework. If that is you, stay to the end. (Meditation 51, 23 min, 19 February 2024)
- [1 Million Hearts Touched: The Journey and Voice of Inner Peace Meditations](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/1-million-hearts-touched-the-journey-and-voice-of-inner-peace-meditations.md): A million downloads, so here is who the voice belongs to. Broken neck at 18, rock bottom at 40, and still cannot meditate to save my life. (Meditation 47, 8 min, 24 January 2024)

## Love, Empathy & Other People

- [Gates Not Walls: A Meditation for Healthy Boundaries](https://innerpeacemeditations.com/episode/gates-not-walls-a-meditation-for-healthy-boundaries.md): Built a wall to keep the world out, and now it feels like a prison? A meditation for boundaries with a gate. (Meditation 113, 11 min, 13 September 2026)

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