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Meditation Minis Podcast
Chel Hamilton | Meditation Minis · Health
Short guided meditations to calm your anxiety, overcome negative thinking, increase your confidence, and more. Don’t think you have the time, or mental focus, to meditate? Most of these mind-shifting meditations are 10 minutes or less. Soothe your stress away and feel better fast with this award winning guided meditation podcast by Hypnotherapist Chel Hamilton today. For more information visit…
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Finding Calm and Clarity
Find deep calm and clearer perspective with a peaceful lake visualization designed to settle overwhelm, quiet mental ripples, and help you respond to life’s challenges with greater ease. Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit chelhamilton.com
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Releasing Anger and Upset
Feeling irritated, disrespected, or just plain angry? This meditation takes you to a calm outside space, then walks you through a perspective shift that makes it genuinely harder to stay mad. Practical, effective, and great to practice on the small stuff so you're ready when the big stuff hits. [Remastered 2026.…
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Finding Balance
Balance isn't a fixed point you reach and hold — it's a rhythm. Using the image of a grandfather clock pendulum, this meditation helps you find your own natural flow and gradually raise your set point, so that good becomes your new normal rather than the exception. [Remastered 2026. Originally released 2016.] Send us…
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Crappy to Happy: How to Think Positive
Notice you've wandered down a dark, negative thought path — again? This meditation uses a clever movie theater visualization to help you catch your habitual thinking patterns and redirect them. The goal isn't just a better mood — it's rewiring your mind so the positive path becomes your new default setting.…
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Finding A Safe Place Inside
This meditation builds you a personal mental safe haven — a place you can step into in seconds whenever you feel anxious, angry, or overwhelmed. You'll also learn to wrap it around you like a bubble you carry everywhere, so calm is always within reach no matter where you are. [Remastered 2026. Originally released…
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Eye of the Storm: How to Calm Down Quick
When everything feels chaotic and out of control, this visualization gives you one powerful tool: become the calm in the storm. The more frenzied things get around you, the more centered you can become. Use it in the moment, or practice it here so it's ready when you need it most. [Remastered 2026. Originally released…
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Get More Confidence Now
This meditation goes straight to the source — using a hypnotic technique to pull up your existing confidence, give it shape and color, and literally shoot it into the moments in your past and future where you've needed it most. Specific, practical, and surprisingly powerful. [Remastered 2026. Originally released…
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Let It Go: A Meditation to Release Stress, Anxiety & Old Hurt
If you've been carrying stress, guilt, old hurt, or low-level negativity around in your body, this meditation helps you physically unpack it — box by box — and set it down. Whether it's from today, this week, or years ago, you'll come out of this one feeling noticeably lighter. [Remastered 2026. Originally released…
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Ohm Sound Meditation: Vagus Nerve Nervous System Reset
No visualization required for this one. Just your breath and a sound. This simple ohm — or amen, or any vowel — meditation creates a triple calming effect: it relaxes the body, focuses the mind, and directly stimulates the vagus nerve, triggering a nervous system reset. Two to three minutes and you'll feel the…
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A Meditation to Break Bad Habits
Trying to change something but keep falling off the wagon? This meditation works with your subconscious mind — the part where motivation actually lives — to help you find the one tiny action that creates lasting change. Great for weight loss, quitting drinking, or breaking any habit that's had a hold on you.…
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The Tiger Within: Effort Without Struggle
Helps release worry, frustration, and anger by distinguishing purposeful effort from unnecessary struggle. Find what calm strength looks like right now, choose focused effort, and set the extra struggle down. (Originally released in 2015) Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing resources, free guides, and private sessions…
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Sailboat of Relaxation
Drift into deep relaxation as you imagine yourself gently sailing across a calm lake surrounded by peaceful sights and sounds -- leaving you calm, clear, and grounded as you return to your day feeling steady and in control. Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit…
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Ocean Breath Reset [fixed]
Stand at the edge of a powerful, churning ocean and breathe in its energy as you release stress, tension, and emotional weight. This guided meditation helps you reset your mind and body while giving you a simple, repeatable tool you can return to anytime you need calm, clarity, or a boost of energy. Send us Fan Mail…
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1 Simple Breathing Trick to Stop Anxiety (Present Moment Meditation)
If you could learn just ONE thing to calm your mind — this is it. Inspired by teachings from Eckhart Tolle and A New Earth, this meditation trains your attention to instantly bring you into the present moment. Calm anxiety in real time Stop racing thoughts without forcing them awayBuild focus and mental clarityWorks…
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For People Who Can't Relax...
If your body won’t relax… your mind won’t either. This quick, guided meditation (originally released Feb 2015) uses a simple tension-and-release technique to reset your nervous system and drop you into a calmer state, fast. Ideal for anxiety, restlessness, or those days when nothing seems to help. For more calming…
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Deep Softening Calm
Once you have done this calming practice a few times you will find it becomes a tool you can access within a few moments of even your most stress-filled, anxious moments. Thank you for listening, and for every time you share this free, relaxing resource with others! You are literally my one and only "marketing…
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Heart Healing Meditation
This meditation helps you connect to your heart in a gentle, compassionate way, leaving you feeling more grounded, soothed, and open to moving forward with greater ease. It can be helpful when dealing with things like grieving from a break up or the loss of a loved one. It's also supportive when you've been feeling…
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Rainy Day Blues Release
This is a great meditation for depression, as well as just feeling sad, down or "blue." While meditations are not a substitute for medical help when we are suffering from depression, practices like this one can support your biochemistry in healing. How you think affects how you feel, which affects your biochemistry.…
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Gentle Venting Meditation
Vent out negative thoughts and/or feelings like anger, fear, sadness, and stress so you can enter into a place of calm power instead. You can do this meditation sitting, standing, or while walking in a safe environment. For more calming resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit ChelHamilton.com Send us Fan…
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Good Day! 🌞 Affirmation Meditation
Here's an affirmation style meditation you can use to create (or REcreate) your own GOOD DAY no matter what other people or situations throw at you. 😀 For more calming resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit ChelHamilton.com Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing resources, free guides, and private sessions…
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Floating and Melting [for Relaxation or Sleep]
This is a great guided meditation to fall asleep to... or to use for deep relaxation. This meditation uses the gentle swinging of a raft, hammock, or sailboat to quiet mental chatter and lull your body into a deeply relaxed, sleep-ready state. Get the extended version (plus 2 more extended meditations for relaxation…
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Simple Sleep Meditation
This meditation is meant to be used to fall asleep. That said, you can also use it as a deep relaxer, or "power nap" meditation. 😴 For more calming resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit ChelHamilton.com Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit chelhamilton.com
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Shower of Energy Mediation
Imagine the water washing away your stress, and filling you with energy for your day with this gentle guided meditation. For more calming resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit ChelHamilton.com Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit chelhamilton.com
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Cut the Cords of Stress
Do you feel weighed down or overly tied up with guilt, shame, and/or obligations? Are the "shoulds" in life stressing you out? This guided meditation helps you release the guilt and obligation of life's "shoulds" by visualizing cords being cut under a vast star-filled sky, restoring clarity and a grounded sense of…
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Breaking Free of Negativity and Status Quo Thinking
A meditation to overcome negativity in ourselves and in how others try to pull us down like crabs in a trap. Set yourself free from the doubts and the “negative pull” of others with this short guided meditation. For more relaxing resources visit ChelHamilton.com Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing resources, free…
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Making Powerful Changes ⚡️
This meditation is a “3rd Person” modeling technique that can very quickly (and powerfully) help you be more of the person you want to be. From more confident when public speaking, to be more patient with your kids, and even for not getting resentful around that person that in the past has always gotten you easily…
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Stepping Out of Emotions that Overwhelm You
AKA: The "Snow Globe" meditation. Do feelings like anxiety, anger, or "freaking out" take over your body and mind more often that you would like? If so, this week's meditation is for you! This week's guided meditation will help you step out of the feelings that overwhelm you, and give you a tool to lovingly place them…
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Overcoming Loneliness 🤗
This meditation is to help you gain a greater sense of connection and calm. This is a good one to use when you are feeling lost, lonely, anxious, and/or depressed. In this meditation there are options for you to use the word Universe, God, or Process to describe for yourself your personal connections to the larger…
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Hammock of Relaxation
This meditation is a combination of pure relaxation mixed with some self exploration to help you discover a bit more about whether you are a visual, sensory, or auditory style person. Enjoy! For more calming resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit ChelHamilton.com Send us Fan Mail For more relaxing…
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Calming Anxiety in Anxious Times
I used to get panic attacks. It’s been over a decade since I have had one. This episode shares some of the practice, and thought cultivations, I do to help keep me calm in times of rising discomfort, fear, and anxiety. I hope it helps you too. 🙂 For more calming resources, free guides, and private sessions, visit…
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