Is There a Silent Meditation or Guided Meditation?

When I know that I'm distractible, I'll do the guided meditation for sure. And when I feel like I'm in a pretty good place, I just do the quiet ones and all it is is one of them is a periodic gong. Do you do always narrated meditation or do you do meditation sessions with with silence? I've done both. If anybody is listening, want to start, do the guided ones for like a month or two months until you're really comfortable with the process. You don't need to do it.