A Zen Mind Guided Meditations - Deepest Healing Sleep Meditation: 2.5Hz Delta Brain Waves & Binaural Beats with Rain Sounds

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

🌜 This sleep meditation has been lovingly created to help you release the mental and physical stress of the day as you drift into a deep, restorative sleep.  Throughout this meditation, we follow... the intention of allowing - a gentle signal of safety and trust to the body, as you allow the experience to unfold in whatever way you need tonight.  We begin with a simple box breathing practice before moving through a sensory awareness exercise and a soothing full-body relaxation. This meditation also features carefully curated 2.5Hz delta brain waves and binaural beats to support deep rest, relaxation, and sleep. *Extended Sleep Version Available on Patreon With love, Jo * No part of this meditation script, voiceover, or editing was created using AI. :)  __ Explore more from A Zen Mind  Join me on ⁠Instagram⁠ 💖  ⁠ azenmindglobal.com⁠ Ad-free + extended episodes on ⁠Patreon⁠ Join the ⁠email list⁠  — Our Partners Mental Health Support: Talkiatry Online psychiatry with licensed providers and personalized, evidence-based care — all from home. Elevated Essentials: Quince Timeless, high-quality pieces at accessible prices. Build Your Business: Shopify Everything you need to start, run, and grow your business online. This episode is for relaxation and educational purposes only and is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hello and welcome to A Zen Mind, part of the Airwave Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joe, and I'm so grateful that you're here. If you enjoy this meditation, please consider rating the show on your listening platform, as it truly helps the show reach even more people. You can follow me on Instagram at a.orgend.mind, and for ad-free episodes, check out my Patreon. All links can be found in the description. Now a quick message from the sponsors of today's episode. And as always, once the meditation begins, there will be no advertisements and no disruptions.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Thank you so much for being here. To this guided sleep meditation, take a few moments to let yourself get really comfortable, settling into your bed or wherever you're sleeping tonight and just allowing yourself to occupy the space. and feeling the mattress beneath you, feeling any blankets or covers, resting softly against your skin, perhaps feeling your clothing on your body, feeling the softness of your pillows, really just soaking in this moment. And as you do this, I want you to notice that there is nothing that you need to do perfectly tonight. This practice is not about effort. It's not about achieving a certain state.
Starting point is 00:02:30 It's not about forcing sleep to happen. Instead, we're going to focus simply on allowing. And throughout this meditation, we're going to come back to a simple mantra. I allow myself to rest. It doesn't mean it's going to happen, it doesn't mean it's guaranteed. It's simply an invitation, a loving, welcoming. I allow myself to rest. I allow myself to rest.
Starting point is 00:03:38 I allow myself to rest. Going yourself to feel whatever needs to be felt, whatever is ready to be released, to gently fall away, allowing the journey to take you where you need to go. And so let's set that intention to allow your mind to rest, to allow yourself to let go of anything that's been holding onto you, to allow yourself to breathe deeper and slower, to allow yourself to set everything down, and to just be lovingly collecting all of your awareness
Starting point is 00:05:11 and letting it land on your breath notice how rich and rewarding this breath truly is this breath that sustains you this breath that has been with you throughout the entire day throughout the entire year throughout your entire life
Starting point is 00:05:46 and can you just quietly say thank you to this breath. A moment of gratitude. Thank you for sustaining me. Thank you for being with me. Thank you for being a part of me. honoring this breath. Now we're going to shift into our box breathing practice. And as always, never force.
Starting point is 00:07:00 If it feels uncomfortable or strong, trained for you. Simply do your best. And with this box breathing, we're going to inhale to the count of four. We're going to hold to the count of four. We're going to exhale to the count of four. And hold to the count of four. So whenever you're ready, let's begin. Inhale, four, three, three two one hold four, three, two, one. Exhale, four, three, two, one. Exhale, four, three, two, one. Inhale, three, two, one. Inhale, Hold 4 3 2
Starting point is 00:08:15 1 Exhale 4 3 2 1 Hold 4 3
Starting point is 00:08:27 2 1 Continuing in your own time Just imagining this breath like a square and following it and following it with your awareness as you inhale hold exhale hold exploring your own rhythm can you sink this breath deep within your core and you let your mind follow this breath can you become one with this breath and you allow yourself to flow with this breath it may still be busy thoughts might still be appearing and that's perfectly okay just continue to follow the breath to follow the box and when
Starting point is 00:11:00 a thought arises simply imagine it like a raindrop on a window and just watch it slowly pass by it might try to engage with other thoughts it might try to get bigger it might try to get more complex but ultimately it passes. You don't have to engage. You don't have to contemplate. Just hold space until it releases itself. Knowing the gentle sound of the rain to begin to wash over you as if this rain is here to cleanse you, to refresh you, to soothe every part of your being, to carry you off to the most restful and restorative sleep shifting deeper into your sensory body can you notice what you feel right now what you hear the sounds in your left ear and in your right ear and you notice what you see even with your eyes closed we can some of
Starting point is 00:13:46 Sometimes notice colors and shapes or faint patterns of light. Can you see anything? Can you smell anything? Notice if you can taste anything. Moving through this sensory experience, observing, allowing I allow myself to rest, I allow myself to rest, and beginning to welcome a few people. feeling of heaviness spreading through your body. A pleasant heaviness. A grounding heaviness.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Although you're being gently held by gravity itself, by the rain, by the energy around you, the day is done. There is absolutely no more that you need to do. You did the best that you could do today and even if you feel like you didn't, that's okay too. Because there's still tomorrow. There's always another day, another opportunity, another beginning. Let that take some of the weight off of today. Feeling the gentle rainfall beginning at the crown of your head, touching the top of your scalp, washing away any mental clutter, any thought loop.
Starting point is 00:17:08 Anything that's weighing you down in the mental landscape. Allow it to be rinsed away and feel the rain moving down across your forehead. Soffening the space around your eyes, all of those tiny muscles. Moving across your cheeks, behind your ears, your jaw, everything. To loosen. Feel the rain. washing down your throat and your neck, rinsing away any tension that you've been holding there, any strain, just allowing it to wash away. Feel the rain moving across your shoulders,
Starting point is 00:18:46 across your upper back, feeling your shoulder blades gently separating from one another, as this rain makes its way down your spine, saturating every vertebrae moving through your back moving down your sternum and into your abdomen as the rain washes down your obliques your lower back cleansing everything in its path and feel the rain moving around your hips your glutes washing away any energy that you've been holding or storing there knowing everything to melt down through your legs, allowing even the deepest muscles within your body to release as the water cleanses them and feel the rain moving through your thighs and your hamstrings, purifying you
Starting point is 00:20:45 as it washes down your knees, over your shins and your calves, into your ankles, and finally into your feet, washing over every part of you, the inside out, allowing yourself to just be here, to be heavy, to sink through time and space, and just allow yourself to feel comfortable. You deserve to feel comfortable. You deserve to feel safe. You deserve to feel at ease. I allow myself to rest I allow myself to rest I allow myself
Starting point is 00:22:48 to rest you may wish to simply be in these next few moments or perhaps you wish to return to your box breath or simply just focus on the sound of the rain just allowing yourself to slowly sink into a deep state of peace, of relaxation.
Starting point is 00:23:50 I'll myself to rest. I allow myself to rest. I allow myself to rest. Wishing you peace and love in a restorative slumber. Namaste.

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