This meditation will be helpful for people with stress and anxiety related issues, but also anger and some other things.

Here's the thing.

There's a huge difference between effort in life and putting in effort and struggling.

And this guided meditation is really about you getting a feel for the difference between those.

And to do that, we're going to use a tiger.

This is the Meditation Minis podcast with your host, hypnotist, Shell Hamilton.

Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and just let yourself begin to relax.

Just kind of allowing a few more gentle breaths to settle in.

You might even find that this is a perfect opportunity for you to imagine a comforting,

relaxing feeling, drifting from the top of your head to the tips of your toes,

taking you even deeper into that meditative place deep inside.

I like you now to imagine that you're in a jungle.

You feel very safe and secure.

This jungle is your home.

And you're curled up, just getting ready to get up

from your nighttime sleep.

Except you're not a human being.

You are a tiger.

A tiger.

Imagine how that would feel as you wake in the jungle as a beautiful tiger so powerful.

You get up and you have a good stretch the way that cats of all sizes like to do

when they wake up. And then just kind of smelling the air to decide which direction you're going to

...