{"id":2329,"date":"2025-04-01T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/survivors.org\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:19:44","slug":"guided-meditation-for-relaxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivors.org\/guided-meditation-for-relaxation\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided Meditation for Relaxation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you feeling tense? Take 15 minutes and try out this guided meditation for relaxation from Hope Healing and Transformation. Use this tool when you feel overwhelmed and need to take a pause to calm yourself down, or just to unwind at the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Guided Meditation for Relaxation\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?from=embed&#038;i=vwwrp-1331f87-pb&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=3267a3&#038;font-color=auto&#038;rtl=0&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=60a0c8&#038;size=150\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guided vs. Unguided Meditation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guided meditation is meditation that is led by someone else, either in-person or via a recording. Unguided meditation is meditation done without leadership, done in the presence of others or alone. 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