Guided Meditation To Take Your Mind Less Seriously And Cultivate Joy

Our mind can really become very present in our day to day with millions of thoughts that limit our perception of reality and the way in which we inhabit it, conceive ourselves in it or relate to other people.

However, if we observe most of these thoughts with enough distance, they can come to seem like really funny occurrences, comparable to convoluted movie scripts. This guided meditation will help you connect with that inner voice from humor.

Observe the voice of our mind as something funny

The reality is that when we view our thoughts as funny, we stop giving them the authority that we normally give them. Suddenly they become absurd and small and, therefore, they lose all their power over us and over the way in which we perceive our reality, since we access a more transparent and free vision, from which the range of possibilities expands.

Thoughts are the creators of our perception and also of our emotional response, therefore if we choose not to take them seriously when they negatively affect us, we are contributing in turn to protect and take care of our emotional system.

This way of observing the interventions of our mind, in addition, cultivates in us an attitude of curiosity and play that connects us with our inner children. This can be very powerful, since little by little it stimulates the transformation of a serious attitude towards life and towards one’s own internal experience, into an attitude of lightness and joy in which the way we perceive reality is presented to us as a fun adventure to be explored.

How to meditate to take your mind less seriously

• Find a comfortable place to sit where you can also maintain a sense of alertness, and give yourself this time without distractions.
• Observe your breathing as it is and notice the sensations that it produces: perhaps tingling around the nostrils or the temperature when entering and leaving.
• Begin to observe your inner experience. The sensations, emotions and thoughts present at this moment.
• Realize what your present thoughts are. Perhaps they are focused on the future: anxiety, pressure to get something, do something or get somewhere. Or perhaps they focus on the past: memories, fears, a sense of threat in your system, etc.
• You can see what effect they have on your body as you watch them carefully.
• Little by little you can introduce the feeling that these interventions of the mind are funny occurrences. Question them and feel that they do not have as much weight.
• You can visualize your mind as a character that is fun for you, a clown for example.
• Feel this practice like a game, with naive energy, from the curiosity and lightness of that game.
• From here you can feel what the effect is then on your body, when instead of taking your thoughts seriously, you perceive them from this place of play and they come to you as the voice of a funny character. Feel your physical sensations.
• When you feel it, you can open your eyes, integrating this simple practice into your day-to-day life.