Episode 15 – Finding Inner Peace | Daily Pause (5-Minute Guided Meditation)

Welcome to The Daily Pause, your 5-minute daily meditation podcast. Each session is a chance to pause, reset, and bring calm and clarity back into your day.

In this episode, we’ll practice finding inner peace—visualizing a calm, clear lake to settle the mind and release mental clutter.

✨ Today’s meditation includes:

• Deep, mindful breathing for clarity

• Visualization of a still, peaceful lake

• Releasing mental fog and distractions

• Tuning into your natural state of calm

• Accessing inner wisdom through stillness

This meditation helps you quiet mental turbulence and reconnect with your inner clarity, so you can carry a sense of peace throughout your day.

If you’d like to make mindfulness part of your everyday routine, subscribe now. Together, we’ll take these moments of calm one day at a time.

Full Guided Meditation Transcript

Welcome to the Daily Pause, your 5-minute daily meditation podcast. Each day I’ll guide you through a short practice of presence and calm to help you move through your day with clarity and ease. Think of this as your daily reset—a few minutes to breathe, reflect, and return to center.

If you’d like to make mindfulness part of your everyday routine, be sure to subscribe, and together, we’ll take these moments of calm one day at a time.

Welcome. Find a comfortable position. Gently close your eyes and allow your body to settle in.

Alright, let’s begin with a deep breath in through your nose… and a slow, intentional breath out of your mouth. Again, inhale… and exhale.

Now as you breathe, imagine your breath as a filter. With each inhale, you breathe in clarity. With each exhale, you release mental fog and confusion. Keep breathing.

Today, we’re going to find a sense of clarity. So often our minds feel like a turbulent, muddy lake stirred up by thoughts and worries. I invite you to imagine a calm, still lake in your mind.

The surface of that lake is perfectly smooth, reflecting the blue sky above. As you breathe, imagine all the sediment, worries, and distractions slowly settling to the bottom. The water becomes clearer. The surface becomes still.

You’re able to see the bottom of the lake, no longer clouded by chaos. This calm, clear state is your natural state. When the mind is still, the answers and insights you need can naturally rise to the surface. Trust that your inner wisdom is always there beneath the surface. All you need to do is quiet the noise and let it reveal itself.

Take a final, clarifying breath in… and as you exhale, gently bring your awareness back to your surroundings.

When you’re ready, slowly open your eyes, and carry this lake and sense of clarity with you throughout your day.

That concludes today’s meditation session. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.