Guided Meditation for Beginners: Managing Anxiety, Overthinking & Gaining Perspective

If you’re new to meditation, or feeling caught in cycles of anxiety and overthinking, start here. In this month’s Chakra Clear Out from my Anarchist Medicine series, I guide a simple meditation practice to help you create more internal space and reconnect with perspective. This practice isn’t about stopping thoughts or forcing yourself to feel calm. Instead, we work with the idea of neutrality: a place inside yourself that allows you to observe what’s happening without immediately reacting to it. Together, we explore grounding, visualization, and attention practices that can help you slow down and return to the present moment. In this meditation, I guide you through: ✨ Calling your energy back to yourself ✨ Creating a semipermeable bubble of protection ✨ Grounding through the body and earth ✨ Exploring the difference between urgency and perspective ✨ Noticing how thoughts and emotions shift with attention ✨ Identifying the quality you most need right now and inviting more of it in You don’t need to choose the biggest or hardest thing in your life to practice with. Start small. Build capacity. Return often. Try this meditation: → while waiting in line → before difficult conversations → when you notice yourself spiraling → when you want to reconnect with yourself before reacting Join me live for Chakra Clear Out at 9:00 AM on the first Wednesday of every month. Explore more: ✨ LaidOPEN Podcast ✨ Newsletter + upcoming offerings ✨ charnacassell.com If this practice resonates, leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to explore in future Chakra Clear Outs.