Choose the production lane first
Preferred professional lane: separate narration + instrumental bed.
- Write the spoken script for a human or TTS voice.
- Generate an instrumental Suno bed with no vocals.
- Mix later with enough spectral and dynamic space for speech.
Experimental lane: Suno spoken word.
- Put the script in Custom Mode with
[Spoken Word], sparse ambient direction, and short phrases. - Expect less reliable pacing and diction. Label the result experimental.
Do not turn a meditation into a sung song unless the user asks for one.
Safety boundaries
This is creative wellness content, not diagnosis or treatment.
- Never promise healing, nervous-system regulation, trauma release, manifestation certainty, or clinical outcomes.
- Do not use forceful breath holds, hyperventilation, deprivation, pain endurance, or "push through" language.
- Prefer normal breathing. If changing breath, make it gentle and optional.
- Use permissive phrasing: "if it feels comfortable", "you might notice", "let your eyes close or soften".
- Offer agency: changing posture, opening eyes, stopping, or orienting to the room is always allowed.
- Avoid commanding the listener to revisit traumatic memories.
- For sleep audio, do not instruct a listener who may be driving or operating machinery to continue.
Timing model
Write for speech, not page reading.
- Calm narration: roughly 90–120 spoken words per minute before pauses.
- A 10-minute meditation usually needs about 650–900 spoken words depending on silence.
- Mark silence deliberately:
[pause 5s],[silence 20s]. - Use longer pauses after sensory invitations and shorter pauses after orientation.
Do not fill every second with language. Silence is part of the composition.
Script architecture
- Arrival (10–15%) — context, agency, posture, external orientation.
- Settling (15–20%) — contact points, sound, ordinary breath.
- Core practice (35–45%) — one technique, progressively deepened.
- Integration (15–20%) — meaning without overclaiming; connect to the listener's real next moment.
- Return (10–15%) — wider sound, movement, eyes, choice, concise closing line.
For sleep, replace the active return with a permissive fade.
Language craft
- Address one listener, not an audience.
- Use short clauses and breathable sentence lengths.
- Give one instruction at a time.
- Ground imagery in sensation: temperature, weight, distance, texture, rhythm, sound.
- Use a coherent image field; do not jump from ocean to stars to forest to fire in thirty seconds.
- Alternate invitation and silence. Repetition should deepen, not pad.
- Avoid guru language, cosmic certainty, moralized calm, and claims that the listener "should" feel a state.
- End with a phrase simple enough to remember in daily life.
Core technique options
Choose one primary method:
- external orienting and five-senses awareness;
- contact-point body awareness;
- natural breath observation;
- gentle count with no retention;
- open monitoring of sound/thought;
- compassion or gratitude grounded in one real person/action;
- future rehearsal of a specific ordinary moment;
- sleep body-softening sequence.
Do not stack four techniques into one short meditation.
Companion Suno bed brief
Design the bed around narration:
- instrumental, no vocals, no spoken samples;
- sparse midrange so the voice remains intelligible;
- no sudden transients, drops, risers, or dramatic key changes;
- stable low-energy arc with subtle evolution every 30–60 seconds;
- gentle pulse or free time according to purpose;
- restrained low end and soft high frequencies;
- long-tail ambience that does not mask consonants;
- clean ending or extended fade.
Example shape (adapt, do not copy automatically):
Instrumental organic ambient, free slow pulse, felt piano harmonics, bowed glass, warm low drones and distant room air; spacious but speech-safe mix, restrained midrange, no percussion transients, no vocals, no choir, no dramatic swells; nearly still opening, subtle warmth at midpoint, long gentle fade.
Quality pass
Before delivery:
- estimate spoken duration and show it;
- verify opening includes agency and safe orientation;
- verify no medical/clinical certainty;
- verify breath language is optional and ordinary;
- verify the core uses one technique;
- verify pauses are explicit and sufficient;
- read aloud for tongue-twisters, abstraction, and accidental urgency;
- verify the music bed leaves space for speech.
Delivery format
Return:
- title and purpose;
- estimated narration duration;
- production lane;
- complete script with pause cues;
- separate instrumental Suno style prompt + exclusions;
- one safety note only if context calls for it.