Calm Your Mind
Ease stress, settle your thoughts, and feel more at peace—anytime, anywhere.
Raise Your Vibration
Release resistance, strengthen connections. and build momentum.
Boost Your Mood
Practices to soothe, uplift, re-ignite passion, and spark bursts of creativity.
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Make every day feel like a holiday!
You wake up, not with a groan, but with curiosity. The day stretches ahead, and instead of the usual rush or monotony, there’s a sense of possibility. You reach for a Mediating Game that feels like a breath of fresh air, a Calibrating Tool that doesn’t ask you to “fix” yourself but invites you to explore, play, and shift into something better—naturally.
Maybe it’s a quick Reading Meditation that helps you settle your mind before the noise of the day begins. Or a moment of focus, where a simple prompt nudges you from doubt to ease. Perhaps you’re sparking bursts of creativity by scrolling through a Vortex Word Cloud or recalibrating your energy with an Uplifting Activity designed just for you.
The world doesn’t change overnight—but your perspective does. And when you start to feel even a little bit better, life responds. Synchronicities pop up. New ideas take root. Ordinary moments become extraordinary because you’re seeing them differently—with clarity, peace, and excitement.
This isn’t a one-time escape. It’s a gentle, daily practice of choosing ease over struggle, joy over obligation, and alignment over resistance. And do you know what else? It doesn’t feel like work.
Transform everyday moments into fun, uplifting, virtual adventures.
What We Do
If you’ve ever felt frustrated with traditional meditation—like your mind is a constant wanderer—you’re in the right place. Our approach engages the parts of the brain that need stimulus to truly thrive. This is meditation with a twist: dynamic, playful, and empowering. Set your own pace. Follow your rhythm. Feel confidently in charge of your alignment.
This site is built on the belief that alignment doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. Our games are designed to fit seamlessly into your life, bringing bursts of joy, creativity, and magic to your everyday moments. Whether you’re easing stress, needing soothing relief, or simply looking for a reason to smile, Meditating Games has something uniquely satisfying for you.
Alignment isn’t about forcing the mind to be still—it’s about inviting the whole self to be engaged. We call this self-fullness. Unlike traditional mindfulness, which focuses primarily on thoughts, self-fullness embraces your body, mind, emotions, and spirit as equal partners in your well-being. With playful practices and innovative techniques, you’ll discover magical ways to achieve calm, even if all you have is a quick bathroom break. (Yes, really!)
Our mission is simple: to make meditation and alignment more playful, accessible, and effective. Through games that honour the fullness of your being, we help you experience alignment that feels easy and natural. By nurturing the whole self, not just the mind, you’ll find that feeling fantastic becomes your new normal—no complicated routines or unrealistic commitments required.
At Meditating Games, we believe that true alignment doesn’t come from managing thoughts alone—it comes from embracing the full spectrum of who you are. That’s why we focus on self-fullness, an approach that invites your body, mind, emotions, and spirit into the present moment as equal partners. Where mindfulness often asks you to observe from a distance, self-fullness pulls you into the richness of your own experience, making space for feelings, sensations, and deeper connection.
The benefits of this approach are profound. By acknowledging and integrating every part of yourself, you reduce internal resistance and experience a more lasting sense of balance. Physical sensations become allies in settling you, emotions become guides rather than obstacles, and your spiritual essence offers clarity and deep calm. This holistic integration not only improves emotional well-being but enhances creativity, intuition, and resilience. Self-fullness doesn’t just help you feel better—it opens the door to thriving, where life flows naturally because you are in harmony.
• Reading Meditations: Our modern twist on meditation that works beautifully for those who struggle with a mind that keeps wandering. These aren’t just meditations; they’re vibrational journeys crafted to help you calibrate up the emotional scale, providing a full sensory experience that helps you focus and get the most benefit from this unique and often playful experience..
• Calibrating Emotional States: Master the skill of moving upward vibrationally, one emotion at a time. You’ll never fear contrast again because you’ll know exactly how to shift. We’ve built our own unique tool to teach you how to do this in a fun and interactive way, as well as provides downloadable PDF’s giving you an actual experience of how this emotional journey tends to work best.
• Stress and Anxiety Relief: Quick vibrational shifts for long-lasting relief with short, impactful exercises designed to slow negative momentum, steady your vibe, reset your energy, and uplift your mood, efficiently, sustainably, and fast.
• Empowering Processes: Self development strategies with high potential for positive personal expansion, increasing confidence, clarity, charisma, and raising your vibration.
• Play Books & Meditation Guides: Simplified, unique mindfulness practices for stress relief, relaxation, and holistic well-being. These comprehensive guides blend vibrational, emotional, mental, spiritual, and scientific principles for a truly balanced experience—this isn’t school; it’s self-discovery at its finest.
• Manifesting Adventure Kit & Vision Packages: These are not your standard goal-setting tools. They’re powerhouses designed to increase your confidence, clarity, and charisma—the vibrational shortcut to the life you want. After all, who doesn’t want to raise their vibration in the best possible ways?
1. MOOD UPLIFTING: Improve your mood and feel more like yourself again.
2. DREAM BUILDING: Turn dreams into reality with playful manifesting strategies.
3. HOLISTIC WELLBEING: Boost emotional, spiritual, physical, & mental health.
4. ENERGY ALIGNMENT: Activate life force, mind power, and raise your vibration.
5. PLAY BOOKS: Insightful reads to inspire, uplift, and light up your life.
Slipping into altered states of consciousness, activating flow, and raising your vibration is a skill you can develop. Our approach uses scientifically supported concepts, including how the brain engages through visual, kinesthetic, and emotional stimuli—the perfect combination to create real and lasting shifts.
Our platform operates like an app on mobile devices and functions seamlessly in a browser. Whether you’re at home or on the go, you’re always just a few taps away from feeling better.
We’re redefining what traditional meditation looks like by creating games and activities that introduce not just mindfulness, but self-fulness. (You know that feeling of completeness you get sometimes? That’s when all our human aspects come together at once, mental, emotional, physical, spiritual). This space is designed FOR YOU to experience just that again and again and again! No ads. No distractions. Just uplifting games, resources, and activities proven to increase your attraction factor, improve your health, and leave you feeling better than ever.
Forget rigid practices or hours-long commitments—here, you’ll find practical ways to:
• Raise your vibration.
• Ease stress and find calm.
• Feel more fulfilled.
• Uplift your spirits.
• Build positive momentum.
• Align with your inner guidance.
• Create the future you dream of living.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hi, I’m Elizabeth Richardson, the author of Playful Calm. I’ve been meditating on and off for more than a decade and have seen firsthand how life-changing it can be. Even short bursts of meditation can raise my vibration, uplift my mood, make me feel emotionally alive, physically strengthened, powerfully energized, and blissfully connected to spirit. When I practice consistently—especially in the mornings before my mind gets busy—my life flows smoothly. Decisions become clear, momentum builds quickly, unexpected money appears, my writing feels inspired, and I create remarkable content for my clients.
But I’ve also faced challenges. There have been times when my mind was anything but quiet, my focus was scattered, and my health took a downturn. Despite knowing how beneficial meditation is, the truth is, I got lazy, letting life’s busyness pull me away. And when that happened, the benefits would slowly fade. I’d feel it in my energy, mood, and even my physical well-being.
This time, I wanted a solution that felt sustainable—ways to make meditation effortless, natural, and fun. Something I could lean on, even during the chaotic or overwhelming moments of life. I realized that doing the same meditations repeatedly had made the practice feel stale, and impossible to stop my thoughts from wandering. I needed a fresh approach, one that felt energizing and would keep me coming back, not out of discipline, but out of joy.
Most of my adult life, I’d set goals that were serious, specific, measurable, and time-bound. But when I decided to let go of rigid plans and simply follow my bliss, everything changed. Now: This simple shift not only lightened my approach to life but completely transformed how I meditated. It became more playful, enjoyable, and easy to stick with. My own brand of Reading Meditations were born. And that’s how this website came to be. — Elizabeth Richardson
Addiction wasn’t always a topic I saw myself writing about. In fact, during my time as a group therapy facilitator, I intentionally avoided working with individuals struggling with addiction due to the unpredictability of their responses in group settings. But life has a funny way of guiding you toward what you’re meant to explore, and here I am, deeply engaged in a subject that fascinates me.
For me, this journey isn’t about personal battles with substance abuse—and that’s what makes my perspective unique. My experience comes from a vibrational understanding of how thoughts, beliefs, and emotions create patterns, including addictive ones. If I had to classify a personal addiction, it would be comfort eating—a behaviour I overcame not through restriction or struggle, but by shifting my vibration. I now manage it easily when needed because I know how to address the underlying thought momentum and shift it into alignment.
Many people approach addiction recovery through stories of struggle, hardship, and years of overcoming. While those stories are valid and inspiring, I don’t believe struggle is a prerequisite for healing. In fact, I believe addiction doesn’t have to be hard to release at all. The amount of effort you put into overcoming something doesn’t determine your success. What matters is your ability to change your vibration—and I know firsthand how powerful that shift can be.
I write about addiction because I want to offer a different path. One that’s rooted in ease, relief, and vibrational alignment. Addiction is often seen as a battle, but I see it as feedback—a signal that your thoughts have gathered momentum in a direction that no longer serves you. And just as easily as that momentum was created, it can be redirected toward well-being.
I believe in showing people how to make that shift gently. Through practical tools like emotional calibration, playful reading meditations, and incremental thought improvements, I help others discover that they don’t need to struggle to break free. Relief is available right now, and once you feel it, everything else begins to fall into place naturally.
So, if you’re looking for a slightly different perspective on addiction that focuses on scientific approaches that back emotional relief methods, rather than fighting the behaviour—you’re in the right place.
Reading Meditations, as a formal concept, originated from a fusion of ancient wisdom, modern mindfulness, and the idea that reading can be an active, calming tool for self-alignment. While the practice of reading for calm has existed informally, Meditating Games has redefined it into a structured experience designed to help users shift emotional states, include multiple senses that provide a richer more satisfying experience, and reconnect with their inner guidance system For a full history and scientific research, check out The Fascinating History of Reading Meditations, and The Super Science Behind Reading Meditations.
Reading Meditations are a purposeful, meaningful way to use your phone or device to guide emotional calibration, build positive momentum, and boost alignment throughout your day. Designed for quick, effective relief, they combine scrolling, reading, and rhythmic focus to bring a sense of ease and presence—turning even the smallest moments into powerful opportunities for well-being.
Yes! People are often surprised by how impactful even our short Reading Meditations can be. If you ever memorize a script (which could take time—it hasn’t happened to us yet!), don’t worry. We continuously release new ones, and you can even learn to create your own.
Anyone seeking a fun, engaging approach to meditation and alignment—especially if traditional methods haven’t worked for you. For those with addictions we share a perspective that focuses on feeling better first, rather than fighting the behaviour and work from a vibrational understanding of how thoughts, beliefs, and emotions create patterns, including addictive ones.
Nope! Whether you’re new to meditation or a seasoned explorer, you’ll find something here to elevate your practice and often, something new or a bit unique that you may not have tried before.
Reading Meditations are a unique approach to relaxation that uses the act of reading and scrolling as a pathway to calmness. Reading Meditations meet you where you are. They require no special preparation or techniques, allowing you to engage in relaxation simply by reading on your phone or device, focusing on the rhythm of scrolling, breathing, and gentle language to induce a state of calm.
The main difference is accessibility and ease. Reading Meditations require no prior experience, special postures or a quiet space and can be done anywhere you have access to your device. They focus on a gentle, gradual process of relaxation instead of a more focused approach. Instead of trying to clear the mind, they work by allowing the reader to engage with the text and the sensory experience of scrolling and breathing, creating a state of “guided flow” rather than pushing towards a meditative state.
Reading Meditations are a unique form of relaxation practice that uses specially crafted text to guide you towards a state of calm and alignment. You simply read and allow the words to wash over you, while also being gently prompted to notice your breath and sensations in your body. The process of scrolling, breathing, and reading facilitates a shift into the parasympathetic state, which promotes relaxation and healing. The words themselves are designed to be soothing and to help release tension, not to provide advice or instruction.
The Intro To Reading Meditations is a great read and gives the user the opportunity to experience a reading meditation first hand, especially if they’ve not heard of them before. It will leave no doubt as to the style, the freshness, and the lightness we bring to meditation, and it’s free to download and use immediately. We call it The Playful Path To Alignment. All our meditations are short, vibration raising, and impactful. People are often surprised at how such a simple thing can make them feel so good.
Smiling, even if it’s initially forced, is a key element because it triggers the release of feel-good chemicals like dopamine and serotonin in the brain. This physiological response helps to relax the nervous system, signalling to your body that it’s safe and can unwind. It’s an effortless way to shift your state towards calm. The body often doesn’t distinguish between genuine and forced smiles; it interprets any smile as a positive signal and responds accordingly, which in turn contributes to relaxation and well-being. This makes smiling an easy and accessible tool to improve your state.
Breathing is fundamental to Reading Meditations, acting as a constant anchor throughout the practice. The focus is on slow, soft, and steady breaths, with exhalations that are slightly longer than inhalations. This rhythm allows tension to drift away, as the body automatically knows how to breathe without conscious guidance, supporting a natural state of relaxation.
Scrolling, often seen as mindless, is intentionally incorporated in Reading Meditations to create a guided flow experience. The act of your eyes following the words, combined with the rhythm of scrolling, helps to focus your attention and leads the mind into a state of ease between thinking and simply being.
As you relax during Reading Meditations, your nervous system shifts into the parasympathetic state, often described as moving from ‘rush-hour traffic’ to a ‘scenic country drive’. This state lowers your heart rate, releases tension and activates the body’s ability to heal, restore, and align itself naturally.
Guided flow refers to the experience of your eyes following the words on the screen, your breath finding its natural rhythm, and your mind drifting into a relaxed state. It’s a blend of focused attention on the text, with ease and a lack of pressure. You’re not forcing anything; instead, you are allowing yourself to be guided by the rhythm of scrolling, reading and breathing. It creates a natural flow into a state of relaxation.
The parasympathetic state is a physiological state activated when the body relaxes. It’s the “rest and digest” mode of your nervous system. When you engage in practices like Reading Meditations, your body shifts from a more stressed “fight or flight” sympathetic state to a parasympathetic state. This results in lowered heart rate, reduced tension, and an enhanced ability to heal, restore and align. The reading meditations are designed to gently nudge you into this state of relaxation and calm.
No, there’s no need to absorb, learn, or cling to specific phrases. The words are designed to soothe rather than stimulate. You don’t need to analyze, memorize, or even fully understand every word. The magic of Reading Meditations lies in their flow. As you read, the words work on a vibrational level—soothing your mind, calming your body, and gently aligning your energy. Simply let the experience wash over you. Even if you don’t consciously take it all in, the process will still leave you feeling lighter, more settled, and at ease. Just relax, scroll, and let the words do their thing.
Yes! Reading during meditation can be surprisingly effective at quieting the mind. When your eyes are gently focused on the words, your brain naturally shifts away from overthinking and mental chatter. The steady rhythm of reading provides structure, making it easier to stay present. Instead of fighting to “clear” your mind, you’re guided into calmness through the flow of the words. It’s an active yet soothing process that engages your senses, allowing relaxation to come naturally.
Yes, gentle physical movements like wiggling your toes or stretching your fingers are encouraged. These tiny actions help to signal to your body that it’s safe to unwind, and wake up parts of you that might have been holding tension without you realising it, enhancing the relaxation process.
The purpose of Reading Meditations is to provide a simple, accessible path to quieting the mind and finding calm, focused attention. They guide you toward a state of Alignment, Flow, and Connection by combining reading, scrolling, breathing, and gentle movement. This unique approach allows you to easily access relaxation and well-being throughout the day, whenever you need it. With each session, you’re gently drawn into a state of Ease and Presence—one you can return to again and again, no matter where you are.
Calibration, in the context of Reading Meditations, means gently guiding you through incremental emotional shifts. Instead of pushing for sudden leaps, the carefully chosen words help you move gradually and sustainably along the emotional guidance scale. The goal is to ease you from stagnation into flow, allowing you to naturally release resistance and reconnect with your inner wisdom. There’s no advice or instruction—just a subtle, supportive process that helps realign your emotions and bring you back to balance.
Reading Meditations are designed to be easily integrated into everyday life. There is no requirement for special environment, or posture. They can be done while lying in bed, on a sofa or even during a work break. This versatility makes it easy to practice this meditation at any time and anywhere you have access to your phone or reading device.
The main benefits include experiencing a sense of calm, connection, and alignment without the need for complex techniques. It’s presented as a way to achieve a state of relaxation by leveraging simple actions like scrolling, breathing, and reading specifically designed text, thus enabling you to access your body’s natural capacity for healing and restoration. Reading Meditations are presented as an easily-accessible practice that can be integrated into any daily routine to foster greater well-being.
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✽ The Appreciation Game: This is where it all began. Expressing appreciation is a proven way to uplift your mood, and we’ve taken it to the next level with an interactive, community-driven approach. Whether you’re looking for a one-time pick-me-up or want to make appreciation a daily habit, this game offers a fun and transformative way to build positive momentum in your life.
✽ What Have You Done Well Today? Self-criticism can bring us down, but self-recognition lifts us up. This game encourages you to acknowledge even the smallest wins—like getting out of bed, taking a walk, or pausing for a deep breath. Whenever you need a boost, come back to this simple question: What have I done well today? It’s guaranteed to make you feel better.
✽ Things to Do Before I Die List: Also known as a Bucket List, this activity is about much more than checking boxes. It’s a creative, joy-filled process that draws your dreams closer by expanding your imagination and focusing on the fun of feeling good as you plan. The magic lies in the act of writing and dreaming—and we’re here to help you enjoy every moment.
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