Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - 20 Minute Sleep Meditation for Stress, Anxiety and Worry

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Starting point is 00:01:16 Or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti If you have, you'll probably like the History of Egypt podcast Every week we explore tales of this ancient culture The history of Egypt is available wherever you get your podcasting fix. Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. Hi, and welcome to Sleep Cove, with me, Christopher Fitton, the place to come for a great night's sleep. This guided sleep meditation is a gentle journey inward, designed specifically to help calm anxiety, release tension. and reconnect you with the inner calm that's always been within you.

Starting point is 00:02:12 You'll also fall into a deep restorative sleep. You don't need to force anything. You don't need to try hard. All you need to do is listen. Across the next 20 minutes, you'll be guided through a peaceful inner experience, using proven meditation and hypnotic techniques. then your journey into a safe symbolic space

Starting point is 00:02:39 where the nervous system can naturally unwind. This meditation doesn't just clear anxiety and stress. It gives you the tools to tackle anxiety and stress long term in your everyday life. And the more you listen to this recording, the better the effects will be. So please subscribe and favourite this recording for future use now.

Starting point is 00:03:05 So please listen to this recording in a place where you can safely fall asleep. And let's begin. You're here, right here for you. And you've chosen this time just for yourself to relax and to let go and get as comfortable as you can. And if you're lying down, stretch and get us comfortable. in the bed as possible, just get into the right position for you. So even if there's still some noise in the background of your mind, even if your body carries some weights of the day, that's okay.

Starting point is 00:04:08 We can let it go now through this practice of guided meditation. And in fact, by noticing the tension, it's already beginning to let go. Your shoulders are dropping a bit and you're letting go as you sit here all I hear listening to the sound of my voice you begin to become more aware

Starting point is 00:04:45 of what it feels like to be still for calm to enter your mind and to let go you do a deep breath in another deep breath in we're going to do one final breath

Starting point is 00:05:19 where we make sure that the inhale is shorter than the exhale the exhale will be longer so we do a deep breath in

Starting point is 00:05:33 hold letting all the air lose and everything's good right now You don't need to do anything else You've already done enough This is your time

Starting point is 00:06:00 Your time to let go And you're aware and you're noticing your breath Breathing in You notice It's becoming deeper and slower More allow You don't focus on changing it You just notice it

Starting point is 00:06:35 Rising and falling With cool air Coming in through the nose You do notice your breathing. You may even begin to notice. The space between the breath, the soft pauses, quiet moments, pathways and doorways to stillness. Your body begins to remember something.

Starting point is 00:07:28 A state it always knew how to return to. A state of calm. A state of stillness. It's always there beneath any stress or anxiety. We were born with innate calm and stillness. We've always had it within us. But as we get older, we sometimes lose that ability to return to calm. We've learned bad habits.

Starting point is 00:08:12 We've learned how to be in a permanent state of stress and anxiety. into shift, getting slightly heavier. Imagine now, a gentle wave of comfort, beginning to flow at the top of your head, flowing down across your scalp, through your forehead, melting down your neck and shoulders, sliding like warm sunlight, down your arm, every muscle. This comfort hits, taxes, You deeply. Your forehead smooths out. Your jaw has run out. The muscles in your neck and shoulders have dropped and have become loose and your arms become soft. This feeling flows down your back.

Starting point is 00:10:21 Relaxing all ages fade away as the feeling flows into your chest. down into your stomach, helping you do deep relaxing breath, comforting, soothing, relaxing every muscle, every tendon, every cell it touches, into your pelvis, your hips, all strains go as it flows into the tops of your legs, through into your thighs, down into your curves, and soothing to the tips of your toes and you become aware of how this wave, this energy, this warm feeling, softens you and it seems to deepen the relaxation. I'm you breathe in, you breathe out. You imagine this calming wave rising through you and as you exhale

Starting point is 00:12:32 it washes away any tension it washes away or melting it away letting it disappear and as you inhale you feel the relaxation move from your toes to the top of your head and as you exhale relaxation feeling moves from the top of your head

Starting point is 00:13:12 to your toes relaxing you deeply and deeply The deeper you become, and the deeper you become, the more you let go. anxiety-free. More stress has been replaced. Relaxation and softness. No good. Drifts away.

Starting point is 00:14:06 That's okay because there's a part of you. That's always listening. The deeper the wiser part. The deeper the wiser part. Every part of you knows how to relax. innately part of you to that piece. You can continue to carry yourself deeper into calm. There is a pulse of you.

Starting point is 00:15:17 The inner mind knows how to drift deeper than thought. Quieter than words beyond images begin to fall. It's the theatre of your mind. Might begin to imagine a simple path. Perhaps it's made or stone or soft mass beneath your feet. feet. Maybe there's a gentle crunch as you walk the earth and you can hear it and feed us that this path winds in front of you through a quiet forest light filters through the tall trees above painting golden patterns through sun rays on the forestful little beams by the forest full. Little beams by

Starting point is 00:17:29 their way. Through the leaf and you look at the sky above you with the centre of pine and earth and something older and ancient melts away. The path is guiding you forward, happy to explore it. Spiradic birds are in the air. Deeper you go into the forest. There's something more inside you that begins to shift because something is ahead just right. and you see a clearing that seems to glow with its own sanctuary. As you arrive, you see it now a circle of trees surrounding a crystal clear pool, water reflecting the sky like a mirror. So serene, and in the centre of the pool

Starting point is 00:19:54 a single smooth stone rests above the surface. Like it's floating, this truly is. A place of peace is a place. Your nervous system, relearns scar, where exhaustion and fatigue can rest. Remember's balance because you are perfect. There's nothing to do because you're meant to be.

Starting point is 00:21:27 You feel happy. You feel serene to this sanctuary. imprint itself, become a symbol, peace within you. And at any time, where you feel anxiety in the future, you can come back here, all it takes as a breath. And the memory of this place, do this yourself, in your mind's eye, or you can listen to me guiding you again, is up to you because you've made it.

Starting point is 00:22:57 relaxation, like to. If you want to, you can reach out and touch that calm water or the coolness. Ripple through your fingertips. You experience it. That anxiety and stress.

Starting point is 00:23:57 It's not you. It's just a signal. Your body gives you. You don't want it becoming a pattern. You want it to be a wave that passes. The future will let that wave pass, like the ripples of this water, will return from many waves with the stillness of the pool like the forest. You can be like the path, you can be like the calm,

Starting point is 00:25:03 just like that guarding you isn't enough to season. rooted, resilient, remembering this feeling on as this sanctuary lives within you now or you visit it. The more real it becomes, the more powerful, it becomes and it becomes and appears. And every time you breathe, you reinforce the message of, I am calm. I am safe. This feeling will pass its certainty. In the sanctuary, you look at your hands and they cut together, and you open them, and you notice that there are seeds in your hand

Starting point is 00:26:49 owe to a little clearing by the pool. You separate the earth and you plant the seeds, because these seeds you're planting. You imagine a life, hopes and dreams. and your feeling of calmness and stillness, when you visit the sanctuary, you will see how they've grown, representing everything to imagine.

Starting point is 00:28:04 And in your mind's eye, in this sanctuary, perhaps you see yourself tomorrow, waking up, where there's sunlight through the window, and even before your feet touch the floor, stillness inside, and you can say, I can handle today.

Starting point is 00:28:53 You perhaps picture a moment that has triggered anxiety before. Maybe it's a social situation, a moment of pressure, or even just an unexpected change. This time, something is different. Because you're different. Instead of tension, you feel clarity. Instead of panic, you feel peace.

Starting point is 00:29:31 Instead of shallow breathing, you do deep breathing and you remember the forest, the sentry, and realise that you're not going to go into the cycle of stress. You're going to remain calm. You're going to be at peace. You're going to breathe deeply in and out. And say to yourself, do not accept this stress and anxiety. the Sun Tree. It lives deeply within you.

Starting point is 00:30:23 You anchor in the calm and you respond not from fear. But from choice feels so good remembering this piece you imagine another situation. Another moment in the future that sets next week

Starting point is 00:31:01 or a month from now and this time you notice just how naturally you're handling it. You move through it with ease. Because something inside you knows that you've got this. Or often you succeed, stress and anxiety arises again. You simply notice it and just let it pass like a cloud in the sky going off in the wind.

Starting point is 00:31:48 Because anxiety no longer defines you. It no longer controls you. You are the calm beneath the current. The grounded tree in the storm. The clear blue sky beneath the clouds. And you can carry this moment with you into every moment that I return to peace in control. So good. So good that you're still in this sanctuary because it's within you.

Starting point is 00:32:50 Then your subconscious mind, where you can go to peace and serenity, and just say relax. Just say to yourself. And your subconscious mind locks it in these resources within you. You can become stronger with time and you can listen to this session again to recharge the strength if you need it and to double the learning. And to help you more with stress and anxiety, it's up to you. You feel so good now. So at ease and so at peace. And you just enjoy this moment.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - 20 Minute Sleep Meditation for Stress, Anxiety and Worry

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