1-minute Messy Meditations
For work, my colleague and I are working on a well-produced audio-based guided meditation to share around for the new year. As I've been exploring the web for examples, I noticed how calm, careful and controlled they are _ every single one. Great enunciation, clear audio, quiet rooms, nice music, controlled breathing.
It made me wonder: what would a guided reflection or audio meditation be like if the narrator was improvising, the audio was terrible, the room was loud, and it was wildly not-calm-at-all? In my dream version, the meditation has the narrator breathing loudly into the microphone, losing track of his words, interrupting himself to yell at his kids, swearing as he drops something, and failing to complete the meditation. I'm picturing a Zach Galifianakis character attempting to pull off the guru vibe, but unable to get past his own internal hangups.
Because really, that's me. A messy man with a full mind and a noisy living room, trying to eke out some peace.
I pulled out my iPh…
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