Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories - A Grounding Meditation for Deep Rest (Premium Preview)

Episode Date: September 7, 2023

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Nicole Griffin ✍️ Includes mentions of: Anxiety, Science & Nature.  Welcome back, friends! This evening, we have a special preview snippet from tonight's Get Sleepy Premium episode - a meditation designed to help you feel more rooted in yourself and connected to the earth beneath you. 😴 To hear it in full, go to getsleepy.com/support Get Sleepy Premium Get Sleepy Premium feed includes:  Monday and Wednesday night episodes (with zero ads). The exclusive Thursday night bonus episode. Access to the entire back catalog (also ad-free). Exclusive sleep meditation episodes. Extra-long episodes. Discounts on merchadise. We’ll love you forever. Get your 7-day free trial: https://getsleepy.com/support.  Connect  Stay up to date on all podcast news and even vote on upcoming episodes!  - Website: https://getsleepy.com/.  - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getsleepypod/.  - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getsleepypod/.  - Twitter: https://twitter.com/getsleepypod.  Get Sleepy FAQs Have a query for us or need help with something? You might find your answer here: Get Sleepy FAQs About Get Sleepy  Get Sleepy is the #1 story-telling podcast designed to help you get a great night’s rest. By combining sleep meditation with a relaxing bedtime story, each episode will guide you gently towards sleep.  Thank you so much for listening!  Feedback? Let us know your thoughts! https://getsleepy.com/contact-us/.   That’s all for now. Sweet dreams ❤️ 😴 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For now, here's our preview of tonight's Premium episode. Please find a comfortable position and settle in. Turn your awareness to your body. Notice any tension and invite it to soften. Release any strain as you surrender the weight of your body downward. downward. Imagine rooting down into your chair or bed, and down into the many layers of the earth, all the way to its deepest core. Notice the areas of your body where you tend to hold tension. Perhaps this is your jaw or behind your eyes or around your neck and shoulders. Maybe it's in your abdomen or lower back. Invite a sense of softening and release. and picture any tension melting away and yielding to the earth. Now bring your awareness to your breath.

Take a few deeper, more intentional breaths and notice the sensation of your breathing. What does breathing feel like in your body. Pay particular attention to the exhale now. The sensation of letting go, releasing, unfurling. You may even try to hold the breath out for a bee-tortue before inhaling again, to really emphasise the emptying sensation at the bottom of the out breath. Now, set all into a natural rhythm of breathing that feels peaceful for you. Repeat silently to yourself. Let. And as you exhale, repeat silently, go. Let go. Let go. As you settle in here, more and more, connect to the feeling of ground beneath you. Rest heavy against the bed, chair, or ground. One definition of grounded is to be family established. Notice a sense of being family established here. Begin to imagine that you are lying on the ground

in a grove of redwood trees. The soil is soft like an earthen bat, the damp ground and nearby tree bark emit a distinct, earthy, woody scent. The grounding smells of the grove are soothing. Your body settles in even more against the soft soil. I hope you enjoyed listening to this preview episode, taken from our supporters' feed, Get Sleepy Premium. If you'd like to hear it in full, plus loads of other amazing episodes completely add free, go to GetSleepy.com slash support, or follow the link in the show notes. or follow the link in the show notes.