Top 2023 Celebrities Who Practice Meditation and Mindfulness

Last Updated: January 05, 2023

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Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses technique such as mindfulness to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. It uses focusing the mind on a particular object or activity to train attention and awareness.

Mindfulness meditation is a practice that teaches you to slow down your thoughts and calm both your mind and body. It also helps us to let go of our negative thoughts. It is a type of meditation in which you focus intensely and become aware of what you are sensing or feeling in the moment without interpretation. It makes you aware of your surroundings and your inner self.

Various celebrities use meditation and mindfulness and take time out of their busy lifestyle for themselves.

Katy Perry

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Singer Katy Perry has known to use transcendental meditation in her daily life. It is a form of silent mantra meditation. She has told in interviews that meditation is the only time her mind gets a break to reset. It changes your entire mood.

Katy Perry has told in interviews that she meditates right after waking up and also before she writes songs or performs. She says that she feels her brain open up and feels her sharpness. Having as busy of a life as she does, a person never really gets a break from their subconscious, so meditation is the only time when you are resting.

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus has always been open about her love for meditation. She has always encouraged her fans to meditate more and take time to discover what they truly want in their life. At the beginning of the pandemic, she hosted live Instagram sessions called Bright Minded as a way for people to connect and discuss.

According to the singer, meditation has helped her discover herself. She also practices yoga and has made known her preferred style of yoga which is Ashtanga. Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Indian yoga and focuses on strength and cardiovascular fitness through breathing exercises.

Beyonce Knowles

Beyonce Knowles also known as the Queen B of Hollywood is very big on her self-care rituals. Beyonce always makes sure she takes time out of her busy life for herself to keep her mind and body in check. She uses meditation, visualization, and breathing techniques as a form of self-care. She also uses acupuncture.

Dakota Johnson

Actress Dakota Johnson has opened up about dealing with depression since she was 14 or 15 years old. She has talked about dealing with her depression during the pandemic. She has revealed that meditation and reading can be helpful to calm your mind and body.

Dakota Johnson has said in an interview that simple things such as meditation or going for a walk or simply reading and being kind to your body can ultimately make a  huge difference.

She has encouraged her fans to be kind to their body and their mind and themselves as there is only so much you can do to help yourself.

Lady Gaga

Pop singer Lady Gaga practices transcendental meditation to manage chronic pain. She had previously hosted a live meditation on her Instagram to spread love and awareness. Transcendental meditation(TM) is a type of meditation where you focus your mind on a silently repeated mantra. Gaga has promoted meditation as a way to cope with some of her mental health challenges.

 During TM, each mantra is individualized by a certified TM instructor for a specific person as a part of the class.  Gaga has shared her experience with TM saying that it is amazing and how it has helped to take away her chronic pain and also helped to decrease anxiety.

Selena Gomez

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Singer Selena Gomez gets Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. The practice is a form of talk therapy that emphasizes meditation and breathing exercises as a strategy to cope with negative pressures. It also teaches patients how to accept painful beliefs to make it easier to change them.

Selena attributes her success in managing her anxiety and sadness to her love of dialectical behavior therapy. The singer has always been open about her physical and mental health struggles and also shares with her fans how she is overcoming them all.

Camila Cabello

Camila Cabello has opened up about her struggles with anxiety and stress and how meditation has changed her life. The ex-fifth harmony singer has often pointed out the benefits of meditation in her interviews. She has said that meditation makes her feel closer to nature and more aware of her emotions.

According to the singer, meditation is a practice of strengthening habits like love and compassion. Meditation makes you feel more connected to yourself and the people around you and also with nature and living beings in general. She even shared various posts on meditating during lockdown with her then-boyfriend Shawn Mendes.  

Shawn Mendes

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Shawn Mendes has often talked about his struggles with anxiety and how it is used to control his actions completely. He believes that meditation has truly changed his life. He also credits practicing mindfulness with helping him to gain his calmness and overcome his struggles.

Mendes shared how he had tried meditating on YouTube for a couple of minutes but only after when he started to use it regularly that he saw changes in himself. Meditation took him from a place of fear to a place of self-realization where he learned that you can't get anywhere if you don't start with compassion for yourself.

Demi Lovato

Singer Demi Lovato spoke about meditation and how it helps to keep them on track. The singer filmed a meditation session to spread awareness on how to practice mindfulness after the challenging lockdown. They credit meditation for helping them realize their gender identity.

According to Demi, they discovered their "masculine energy" matched their "feminine energy" by pausing to think and just breathing. They identify as non-binary and gender non-conforming. After truly finding themselves, Demi revealed that they choose to find the good in their flaws, in their failures, and themselves.

Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding shares how meditation is an important thing to keep her anxiety at bay. She listens to a lot of meditation music and classical music. She usually spends her mornings for her mind and body by meditating, workouts or by doing simple yoga.

Ellie Goulding has also recorded meditation music to help others while meditating. She often engages herself in meditation and yoga to simply restore her body and mind before starting the day. It helps to calm her and keep her anxiety at bay.

Megan Fox

Actress Megan Fox talked about exercising her mind with meditation. She also revealed that she took classes on meditation and has gotten pretty good at it. Meditation calms her body and keeps her focused. She said that she can stay under and focus for about thirty minutes.

The actress was able to put her mental practice to good use during the shooting of her travel channel series, Legends of the Lost. during the filming of the show, she had to sit out in the woods alone in the dark and meditate. She revealed that she quest in her mind when meditating that she wanted an answer.

Hugh Jackman

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The x-men actor Hugh Jackman has mentioned how meditating twice a day has allowed him to come back to his center and who he is. It has allowed him to drop all the labels and just experience himself. He has revealed how he gets to strip away the mask that we build and reach the feeling of his true self through meditation.

Hugh jackman said that his guiding principle is being true to himself. He also revealed how transcendental meditation has changed his life. It makes him calm and happy and gives him some peace in his busy lifestyle.

Conclusion: Celebrities Who Practice Meditation

Meditation is a practice of using mindfulness to achieve a clear and aware state of mind. It makes us aware of our environment, the people around us, and most of ourselves. A lot of various celebrities use mindfulness to take breaks from their busy lives. Living a life where your mind doesn't get proper rest even when you are sleeping has made these celebrities realize the importance of meditation.

Meditation helps to reduce your anxiety and stress and recharge your mind. Taking a few minutes to meditate and proper rest can be life-changing in long term. You can regain your sharpness by practicing mindfulness. Mindfulness is the state of being fully aware of our surroundings. It helps to let go of our negative thoughts. It also helps to slow down our thoughts and calm our minds and body.