We love YouTube. It seems like you can find a video for just about anything these days…and meditation videos are no exception! Specifically, YouTube has some really good hypochondriac meditation video. This is super helpful, because they target all of their mantras and explanations towards people struggling with health anxiety.
Meditation can be hard, even for the most focused and experienced meditators. So you can imagine just how hard meditation is for people without any experience. You can imagine especially how hard meditation can be for people who are struggling with health anxiety.
Luckily, these videos help provide targeted prompts and direction so you don’t feel aimless when you’re attempting to meditate. Because these videos are directed towards easing hypochondriac health anxiety, you will find them to be very helpful. You won’t need to worry about trying to clear your head or reduce anxiety on your own! Simply follow the instructions and observe your health anxiety start to reduce.
We’ve gathered our seven favorite YouTube hypochondriac meditation videos for you:
Best Health Anxiety Meditation On YouTube (MAPPING – PART 1)
This 14-minute meditation focuses on mapping, which is the practice of mapping how your body feels in a particular moment. This guided hypochondriac meditation encourages viewers to be non-judgmental of whatever they are feeling in that current moment.
Sufferers of health anxiety and hypochondria don’t have much trust in their bodies, which means that they are more susceptible to thinking catastrophically. This particular Health Anxiety Meditation Video works best when watched daily, so desensitization from health anxiety can occur.
Health Anxiety Meditation Hypnosis (Calm your Hypochondria) – Female Voice Meditation
London-based clinical hypnotherapist Tansy Forrest created this 40-minute meditation. Tansy is an expert in the hypnotherapy field, with over 21,000 YouTube subscribers. Fortunately, hypnotherapy has the potential to be very effective for health anxiety and hypochondria!
Since this video is a bit longer, it may not be feasible to complete or practice with it every day. However, it is extremely helpful, so try to implement it in your regular life as often as possible. This specific video will help you relax, put your mind at ease, see life from a different perspective, and think more rationally about health anxiety thoughts.
Overcome Anxiety, Stop All Stress – Calm Down, End Anxiety Attacks, Overactive Thinking(Sleep Music)
Prefer your meditations to be non-guided? This hour-long hypochondriac meditation has no sound or voice guiding in the background, so you can truly just focus on how your body feels in the moment. Since this meditation video is fairly long, you can choose how many minutes you want to do when watching it.
If you’re new to meditation for hypochondria, we recommend starting out with a small amount of time (5-10 minutes) and then gradually increasing to longer lengths of time. Because this meditation is unguided, you may struggle maintaining the length when you first start watching this video. But don’t worry – practice makes perfect!
Health Anxiety Meditation (includes AFFIRMATIONS for Health Anxiety) Female voice
This twelve-and-a-half minute long hypochondriac meditation has an intro minute at the beginning of the video explaining what health anxiety is. If you’re watching this video for the first time, we recommend watching the whole thing through as it may be helpful for you to hear somebody’s explanation of health anxiety. For future watches, though, feel free to skip right to the 1:00 minute marker so you can get started with the meditation.
This video features three different types of meditation: face meditation, guided imagery for health anxiety, and affirmations for health anxiety. You may find one, two, or all three types of meditation helpful. While this video doesn’t go super in-depth, it definitely provides the basics behind all three types of meditation so you would be able to successfully learn these skills to complete on your own at a later date.
Don’t like looking at things when you’re meditating? Then, no worries, this video is voice-only and is designed to help you learn to let bodily sensations and thoughts come and go without attachment.
10-Minute Meditation For Anxiety
This ten-minute meditation is the shortest one on our list. While it doesn’t focus on hypochondria specifically, it’s a good introduction into using meditation as a solution for anxiety. This video is written and narrated by John Davisi, a mindfulness life coach, teacher, and speaker. Therefore, you know you’ll be in good hands!
Guided Meditation to RELIEVE HEALTH ANXIETY – Hypochondria
This half-hour long guided meditation video will help you learn how to use meditation to reduce obsessive thoughts, and combat excessive health anxiety. This video proclaims itself to be a “wise and compassionate friend for those who suffer from hypochondria.”
Health Anxiety Affirmations | Release Symptoms Of Anxiety (DAILY LISTEN)
This fifteen minute meditation video focuses on health anxiety affirmations that will help you release your health anxiety symptoms. We recommend listening to this video daily so you can strengthen the desensitization process.
While you are in the middle of this specific meditation, you may notice that the emotions and fear behind your worries are beginning to reduce. This is due to the fact that you will be able to focus on the neutrality behind your thoughts as opposed to assicating everything you think and feel with danger.
This meditation video is accompanied by Theta brainwave frequencies to help “power up” your meditation experience. Theta brain waves are known to help people gain access to their subconscious, which will help you absorb every anxiety affirmation that you access in this video.
So, which one of these health anxiety YouTube videos are you going to watch first? Let us know in the comments which one you found to be the most helpful.
