Why guided meditations are worse than useless

Some of you are using your time to go into guided meditations.

While that’s not the worst use of your time, I don’t recommend it.

People like guided meditations because it’s easier than meditating alone. Well, sure, just like it’s easier to lift weights if you have someone there lifting weights with you. It’s “easier” but makes it useless.

You may find it difficult to meditate because your mind keeps wandering. If so, you may like guided meditations because they help you stay on track.

But correcting your own lapse of focus is where 90% of the benefits lie.

You can’t outsource that, just like you can’t outsource a good diet, exercise, and getting up early.

Now, I know some of you will say that you only got into meditation because of the guided meditations. If you used them as training wheels and then discarded them, sure.

I would point out that the magic was inside of you the whole time. You didn’t need help to meditate, you just thought you needed it. If you needed the training wheels to get you going, then I’m glad it all worked out for you.

The problem is that most people ride their entire lives with training wheels on.

Five minutes of concentration, where all the responsibility falls on you, is better mental training than 20 minutes of listening to another person.

If you’re the type of person who likes to go into altered states of consciousness by listening to another person talk, then I have good news.

Because there is an exception to this rule.

And that’s when you listen to hypnotic guided meditations.

What is the difference?

That single extra word changes what happens.

Instead of reminding you to focus (in other words, do your work for you), hypnotic guided meditations use your words to… well, hypnotize you.

They put you into a deeper meditative state, one that could take years of training to reach on your own.

Instead of being training wheels, hypnotic guided meditations are like sherpas. Technically, you don’t need them to explore new depths of your own mind… but, with them, you can go much further, faster, and more easily than you could on your own.

I still recommend mixing it up and meditating under your own power.

But if you combine that with guided hypnotic meditation, you’ll find yourself going deeper into trance and getting more benefit from it.

All with less struggle on your part.

It is the best way to learn to meditate.