Episode 11 – Finding Joy in Simplicity | Daily Pause (5-Minute Guided Meditation)

Welcome to The Daily Pause, your 5-minute daily meditation podcast. Each session offers a reset—time to breathe, reflect, and return to center.

In this episode, we’ll focus on finding joy in simplicity. Instead of waiting for big moments to bring happiness, today’s practice helps you reconnect with the small, everyday sparks of joy that make life feel lighter and more meaningful.

✨ Today’s meditation includes:

• Centering breathwork to arrive in the present moment

• Gentle awareness of sounds, sensations, and stillness

• Reflection on simple pleasures in daily life

• Cultivating gratitude for ordinary moments

• Learning to carry joy through your day

Joy doesn’t always arrive in grand gestures—it lives in the little things: a sip of coffee, a warm shower, a shared laugh, a glimpse of the sky. Through this meditation, you’ll rediscover how small joys add up to a happy, fulfilling life.

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 place to sit, or if you want, you can lie down. Now gently close your eyes and allow yourself to relax.

Let’s begin like we always do: take a slow breath in through your nose… and a complete, full exhale out of your mouth. (gentle music)

As you breathe, bring your full attention to this present moment. Notice the air against your skin. The sounds around you—inside or outside. (soft music)

There’s nothing for you to do. Nothing you need to fix. For the next few minutes, just simply be here. Keep breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth.

Today we’re going to focus on finding joy in simplicity. So often we wait for big, monumental moments to feel happy. But joy is already all around us in the smallest things.

I invite you to think of one simple, ordinary thing from your day that brought you a moment of quiet pleasure. It could be the taste of your coffee, the feeling of warm water, a laugh with a friend, or the sight of a beautiful sky.

As you breathe, hold that simple moment in your mind. Feel that feeling of joy. And exhale, allowing it to spread through your body.

These small moments are not insignificant. They are the building blocks of a happy life. Allow yourself to feel the warmth of that simple joy.

You have the ability to find a sparkle of happiness in the ordinary. It’s a choice you can make every day. Find the sparkle.

Now, take a final joyful breath. And as you exhale, gently bring your awareness back to your surroundings.

Whenever you’re ready, slowly open your eyes and look for more of these simple, joyful moments all throughout your day today.

That concludes today’s meditation session. I hope we see you tomorrow.