Inner Peace Meditation
There is a peace that doesn't depend on your circumstances being calm. It doesn't arrive only when life is easy, or disappear when things are hard. This inner peace meditation, led by Dr. Jana Rentzel, invites you to discover the peace that already lives at your innermost core — steady, abiding, and available to you right now.
Whether you're new to meditation or have been practicing for years, this 24-minute guided meditation offers a meaningful path inward. Through breath, stillness, and contemplative guidance rooted in both spiritual psychology and Christian contemplative tradition, you'll be led gently but directly to the quiet at your center.
Length: 24 Minutes
Facilitator: Dr. Jana Rentzel
This meditation explores themes of: Christian, Peace, Self Care
What Is Inner Peace — and Where Does It Actually Come From?
Most of us look for inner peace in the wrong direction. We try to manage our circumstances, reduce stress, or create the "right" conditions before we allow ourselves to feel at peace. But the great wisdom traditions — from the Bhagavad Gita to Christian contemplative prayer to Buddhist meditation — all point to the same truth: peace is not something you create. It's something you uncover.
This meditation is built on that foundation. Rather than asking you to clear your mind or achieve a particular state, Dr. Rentzel invites you to turn toward the peace that is already present at your core — beneath the noise of daily life, beneath worry and uncertainty, beneath even the thoughts that feel most urgent.
This is what the contemplative traditions call abiding peace. Not a feeling that comes and goes, but a quality of your deeper nature that is always there, waiting to be remembered.
Prefer to watch? The video version of our Inner Peace Meditation is below:
“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony,
who are free from desire and wrath,
who know their own soul.”
- Bhagavada Gita.
What You May Experience During This Meditation
People who practice this meditation often describe a sense of settling — a feeling that something tight has loosened, that they've returned to themselves. You may notice:
A quieting of anxious or racing thoughts
A sense of warmth or expansion in the chest
Moments of stillness that feel surprisingly natural
A renewed sense of perspective on whatever you've been carrying
You don't need to force any of these experiences. The invitation is simply to show up, press play, and let the meditation do what it does.
A Glimpse into this Meditation
Below is a brief excerpt from the opening of this inner peace meditation.
"Today we're going to do a guided meditation for cultivating and experiencing deep peace — to help you learn how to access that peace that abides at your innermost core, that peace that's always there regardless of what's going on in your outer life.
The peace I'm talking about here is not something that comes and goes depending on our outer circumstances or even the thoughts going on in our heads. It's not something that happens only when our circumstances are just right. In fact, we can experience this deep, abiding peace even when we're engulfed in trying and troubling times.
After all, true peace is the presence of God. And so this divine source of peace is always with us in our innermost heart of hearts, at the very core of our spiritual being."
— Dr. Jana Rentzel
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About Dr. Jana Rentzel
This meditation is led by Dr. Jana Rentzel — psychologist, spiritual director, and meditator of nearly 40 years. Dr. Rentzel specializes in spiritually-based counseling and has trained extensively in both Tibetan Buddhist practices and Christian contemplative prayer.
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