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Notes from the tape bench.
Notes on recording guided meditations in your own voice, writing scripts, breathing patterns, and keeping every tape on your device.
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Recording a message for future you
A letter to your future self is an old habit. Recording one instead changes what arrives, and here is what to say, how to seal it, and when to open it.
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Four breathing patterns and how to pace them
Calm, Coherent, box breathing and 4-7-8, with the exact timings, the breath rate each one produces, what the evidence supports, and when to skip the holds.
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How to record your own guided meditation
A practical guide to recording a guided meditation on your phone, covering the words, the room, the pacing of the pauses, and where the tape ends up.
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How to write a guided meditation script in your own voice
How to write a guided meditation you will record and hear back yourself, from one line per breath to the six stage arc, plus a short worked script.
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Why a guided meditation in your own voice lands differently
Most guided meditation is a stranger's voice at a stranger's pace. Writing the words and recording them yourself changes what the practice asks of you.