<![CDATA[Home Base with Jeff Warren: Quick Meditations]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/s/quick-meditationshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E9wF!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e86a397-be0c-4cd2-9de2-d4ebfbc23c02_862x862.pngHome Base with Jeff Warren: Quick Meditationshttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/s/quick-meditationsSubstackFri, 10 Apr 2026 20:43:54 GMT<![CDATA[10 Good Breaths - a 3-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/10-good-breaths-a-3-minute-meditationhttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/10-good-breaths-a-3-minute-meditationFri, 10 Apr 2026 16:02:35 GMTTen Good Breaths. Very simple, just what it sounds like. Also one of the first meditations I ever recorded for an app – over ten years ago now – you can hear it in my fresh nasal newbie voice.

For the full post with other quick-hit meditations, see here.

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]]><![CDATA[The Most Basic Meditation - a 5-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/the-most-basic-meditation-a-5-minutehttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/the-most-basic-meditation-a-5-minuteFri, 10 Apr 2026 16:02:34 GMTI made this meditation for Happier ages ago; they’re letting me re-post it here. It’s a very simple practice that I still use to shift my disposition anytime I’m feeling uptight or contracted.

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]]><![CDATA[Rhythm - a 5-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/rhythm-a-5-minute-meditationhttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/rhythm-a-5-minute-meditationFri, 10 Apr 2026 16:02:20 GMTThis is a short version of a meditation I made a couple years ago for Home Base – original here. It’s about finding an enjoyable rhythm wherever you incline your attention: in the breath, a phrase, or a visualization. Something to help you get a bit absorbed, and reset the moment.

The full post with other quick-hit meditations is here.

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]]><![CDATA[Remember Who You Are - a 4-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/remember-who-you-are-6-minute-meditationhttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/remember-who-you-are-6-minute-meditationThu, 01 Jan 2026 15:22:29 GMTThis meditation is about remembering who you are and what you’re about. It’s about connecting to your deep values, your network, your mentors, ancestors. Anyone and anything that can help inspire you to do the right thing, in a way that is – and it’s a big ask – not attached to any specific outcome. Because you can’t control the outcome. In fact, sometimes the things you do and say will make things worse. So none of that, frustratingly, can be the litmus test for a job well done. But the litmus can be the relative integrity of the action itself, in the moment, done for its own sake.

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]]><![CDATA[Love Your Enemies - a 4-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/love-your-enemies-it-will-drive-them-crazy-6-minuteshttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/love-your-enemies-it-will-drive-them-crazy-6-minutesThu, 01 Jan 2026 15:21:07 GMTI recently heard the meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg talk about a book she coauthored called Love Your Enemies: It Will Drive Them Crazy. Her excellent subtitle never made it to press, alas, but it does capture the spirit of this meditation. First we’re all sincere and loving, and then, in order to break the spell of intimidation that difficult characters may have on us, we get a bit unhinged. Finally we swing back to more standard vanilla lovey lovey type sentiments.

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]]><![CDATA[Who Gives a Shit? - a 5-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/who-gives-a-shit-6-minute-meditationhttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/who-gives-a-shit-6-minute-meditationThu, 01 Jan 2026 15:18:49 GMTThis meditation is about thumbing your nose at the seriousness of reality and choosing instead to act like a liberated fool. Because sometimes life is so ridiculous - and ridiculously hard - that all we can do is laugh. To read the full post, please click here.

]]><![CDATA[Complete Surrender - a 3-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/complete-temporary-surrender-6-minutehttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/complete-temporary-surrender-6-minuteThu, 01 Jan 2026 15:17:31 GMTThis meditation is about completely giving up and letting the nervous system come to ground. To read the full post, please click here.

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]]><![CDATA[Gradual Transitions: An ADHD Hack - a 5-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/gradual-transitions-6-minute-meditationhttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/gradual-transitions-6-minute-meditationTue, 22 Oct 2024 14:03:16 GMTTo read the full post and also to join the community comments, please click here.

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]]><![CDATA[You Can't Mess Up Meditation - a 5-Minute Meditation]]>https://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/no-big-dealhttps://www.homebasewithjeff.com/p/no-big-dealSun, 11 Feb 2024 19:00:14 GMTI love writing meditations. They’re my favorite medium, at once invisible and ambitious. Invisible because the whole point is to direct the arrow of attention into the listener's own experience, and away from the words and the speaker. That’s why so much guided meditation is rote and constrained: one tone, one instruction, repeated at regular intervals. Less an art form than a metronome.

And yet, the guided meditation is also very ambitious. Even the simplest practice can change the listener’s experience of reality. This happens in ordinary common sense ways – invited to notice sound, we shift attention and change the composition of our awareness. It happens in emotionally healing ways – encouraged to open to experience, we suddenly notice what we haven’t been allowing ourselves to feel, and relief sweeps through the nervous system. And it can happen in profound and even cosmic ways – a sudden pointing-out that forever shifts our sense of ourselves.

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In this meditation, we are NOT going for ambitious. That’s because after years of teaching, I’ve found that the most important factor in making meditation accessible is an attitude of no-big-dealness. Remember this if you get the opportunity to share practice.

A casual attitude disarms the mind’s tendency to think it needs to get everything right. 

You don’t have to get this meditation right. 

In fact, you can’t get it wrong. It’s about existing, and you already exist. 

Done and done.

Let’s meditate.

Jeff

PS – To be clear, “no big deal” is an attitude towards meditation itself, a way to disarm the mind and let the benefits of practice in. Benefits that include grounding and opening and seeing things more clearly, so we can more effectively act in the world. The situation in the world right now is very much a big deal. Next week I’ll focus on a practise to support peace and activism.

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