Trying to find a helpful guided meditation is such an individual thing. It's all about finding a speaker whose voice you respond to, music that soothes and words which are, not just meaningful, but create images you can ease into.

I'm a huge fan of author Sanaya Roman, a woman who channels a spirit named Orin. Over the weekend, I was looking around her Web site and found the meditation room. On this page, I found several, beautiful guided meditations. While none of the meditations are longer than 5 minutes, I found myself lingering on each for awhile after they ended.

While I've read all of her books, I'm tempted to order one or two of her CD programs. Somewhere on the Web site, I read they will be offering mp3 downloads in 2007. I can't wait.