Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - A Calming Sleep Story - The Magical Stone Circle

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Starting point is 00:01:34 Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. Hello and welcome to Sleep Cove. Please remember to subscribe and follow the show if you want to get a great night's sleep again and again. Tonight I've got something really special for you where we'll visit the magical sacred stone circle. I don't want to give away too much, but you'll visit an ancient woodland,

Starting point is 00:02:19 a circle of stones that have some magic properties. You want some deep relaxation and a great night's sleep. This episode is for you. So relax. get cozy, let us begin by sinking softly into the stillness of the night, wherever you are, if you're nestled beneath a warm quilt or in a cozy bed, your body to me at ease. Gently close your eyes if you haven't already, and take a slow, deep breath in, soft sigh. Take another deep breath in. Let your body become still drop your shoulders.

Starting point is 00:03:41 Let your arms be heavy. Your legs soft and just relax deeply in the bed. You've done enough today. You've given enough. You've been enough. There's nowhere else. You need to be right now. nothing left to do. With every exhale, imagine the weight slipping from your shoulders, the tension's softening from behind your eyes, the gentle release of your jaw, your chest,

Starting point is 00:04:37 your hands, your whole body, welcoming stillness and will soon be transported to a magical place and if you listen you may hear the quiet in the air around you the kind of quiet that lives in peaceful places where only kind winds and gentle trees make a sound you begin to feel a slight shift in the air through the natural world around you, has paused to invite you into its deeper rhythms and in your mind's eye. Picture yourself on the edge of an ancient forest, one that's never known, the bite of blade, nor the sound of the sound of the,

Starting point is 00:05:55 machines. Everything moves at a pace of roots and streams deep within the heart of this forest, beyond the mossy trails and under the canopy of rustling leaves, there lies a hidden path, known only to those with a gentle heart and a curious spirit on this quiet evening you find yourself walking this trail where every step feels like a hush

Starting point is 00:06:48 every leaf a soft whisper of welcome around you Trees rise like gentle giants. Their leaves are deep green, swaying softly in the breeze. The breeze that brushes your skin like a feather, birds sing in high, sleepy notes, and far off a little stream. flows over polished, beds. You take another deep breath and smell the pine needles, the wild flowers.

Starting point is 00:07:48 This is a forest full of peace and it's waiting just for you tonight. The air is cool and smells of pine and earth with golden rays, of the setting sun, threading through the trees like warm ribbons, birds, sing their final songs of the day, and a gentle breeze brushes your cheeks, like a friendly sigh you spot something ahead, a hidden trail that seems to be a to shimmer slightly and it is touched by magic. You feel a soft tug in your heart and so you walk. Gently forward. The secret trail winds through tall ferns and past ancient trees with twisted trunks and moss covered roots. They stand like old friends

Starting point is 00:09:30 Who've seen many lifetimes pass in the forest But as you go deeper The quieter the forest becomes Not silent But still So peaceful Slined trail Brings you closer to a space

Starting point is 00:10:01 Few ever find Hidden away where the forest breathes slowly and time forgets its name. Eventually, the trees open into a wide round clearing. You step into it and the air shifts. Soon the trees part to reveal a wide round clearing, planketed in soft green grass.

Starting point is 00:10:46 The air here is alive with a low hum of crickets, the occasional hoot of an owl, rustle of night creatures. It's not silence, but rather a sacred quiet. The clearing, in the centre is ringed by tall weather-worn stones. This is no ordinary circle.

Starting point is 00:11:29 The stones stand like sentinels from a world half remembered by wind and rain and inscribed with like an age in mystery. In the centre, standing tall and silent is a perfect ring. Ancient stones. Each one is smooth. The surfaces kissed by time and weather. This is the sacred stone circle. Though it stands still now, you sense something wonderful lies beneath its quiet surface.

Starting point is 00:12:32 some of the stones are dappled with lichen soft with moss and warm in the fading light no one knows who place them there

Starting point is 00:12:53 but standing before them now you can feel it in your bones this is a sacred place you feel calm safe, like the forest itself is wrapping you in a blanket made of leaf shadows and old sovs. No one knows who placed them here. Some say the ancient people did, those ancient folk of magic and knowledge. Others whisper that the stones rose on their own accord.

Starting point is 00:13:55 Heart beat. You settle by the edge of the circle on a bed of moss, wrapping a soft blanket around your shoulders in front of you. You gently build a small fire, stacking smooth sticks until a gentle flame begins to flicker and crackle casting a golden glow across the clearing

Starting point is 00:14:41 the wall spreads across your face your hands your chest wrapping you up in a gentle hug the crackling fire now has an orange glow

Starting point is 00:15:03 dancing like fireflies then it begins falls over the forest as the first stone hums softly calming note like the beginning of a

Starting point is 00:15:28 lullaby then another stone joins in glowing faintly with a silvery shimmer one by one each stone begins to glow passing in a rhythm

Starting point is 00:15:48 like the heartbeat of the earth itself. The sun dips behind the treetops. The fur stars blink awake above. The sky above deepens from dusky lavender to deep twilight blue. Stars beginning to blink. Their sleepy eyes. You hear it before you see it. which is soft. It's not loud, but you feel it inside you. Like it's echoing in your chest. One of the stones, torn and pale, begins to glow faintly,

Starting point is 00:16:56 not brightly, just a soft shimmer like moonlight resting on water. Another stone joint. Humming a slightly different note. Together they make a peaceful chord. Then another. One by one, each stone begins to glow. Pulsing gently as though alive. You sit very still.

Starting point is 00:17:36 You don't want to blink in case you miss a moment. The stones light up in slow waves. Each one shining in a colour and like anything you've ever seen. Not just red or blue or green, but richer, deeper, colours that make you feel alive. These colours feel like emotions. One glows a warm amber gold. And you feel a healing, bubbling happiness,

Starting point is 00:18:24 in your chest, like the joy of running through sunset fields. The light is not harsh, but kind, soft as a candle's flicker, warm as a memory. It flows through you, loosening every knot of tension. You feel the joy of something older than fear. The forest holds you and the stones share something wordless and wonderful in the sacred space. Magic is not a spell to be cast. It is a presence to be felt. You are safe here. Another stone shimmers a deep blue.

Starting point is 00:19:34 Wrapping you in a sense of peace and calm like floating. on a still lake beneath and under the stars. A third pulses green and you feel connected to the trees, the wind, the whole breathing world around you. Your muscles soften even more, slow down. You feel like you could float away on a soft cloud. A third stone glows a vire. vibrant emerald and your heart swells with connection to the trees to the moss to the

Starting point is 00:20:34 creatures sleeping in their burrows to the sky and to yourself as each stone shines they begin to weave together their lights casting soft beams into the air above the circle. The beams twist and curl, weaving in the sky like colorful ribbons. Slowly, these magical lights, drift upwards, painting the night sky with shapes and patterns.

Starting point is 00:21:20 Some swale like galaxies, painting golden trails. Others bloom like flowers. made of stars, or seem like dancing spirits. Let the colours loll you. Let the ancient rhythm of stone and starlight wrap you in their lullaby. There's no need to do anything.

Starting point is 00:21:52 You just simply rest beside your fire. The moss, like a cushion beneath. you. The colours stretch across the heavens. The glow of the stones reflecting in your sleepy gaze. The fire crackles softly beside you and the forest sings a quiet nighttime song with the rustle of leaves. The chirp of nighttime crickets. And the forest sings a quiet nighttime song. the sigh of a breeze and the colors from the stones are so many, from silver to green, to violet to amber and rose. This gentle magic, through the ground you feel healed, that quiet joy.

Starting point is 00:23:15 The soft exhale of peace, one of the beams of light, gently bends down from the the sky, like it's reaching just for you, it touches your chest. And you feel an emotion rise, that you can barely name it's not just happiness. It's not just peace's belonging in this moment you understand. But the sacred circle isn't just ancient stone. It's alive with forest magic to remind you that you are part of something greater, something beautiful. The light becomes warmer, softer. It doesn't speak in words, but you feel the message as clearly as a whispered lullaby. You are loved.

Starting point is 00:24:38 You are so happy. and the stone's soft hum sing to you like a bedtime song and the colours fade away into the soft starlight and the forest begins to breathe again and the branches sway and an owl hoops in the distance and the fire beside you crackles gently and you lie down now Your head resting near the fire. The stones are ring of guardians around you. The grass is soft beneath you. And the scent of wild herbs drifts through the clearing.

Starting point is 00:25:38 Camomile clover, a hint of wood smoke and sage. And in your mind's eye you might see the memory of ancient gatherings here people singing beneath the moon dancing, laughing, laughing their shadows leaping with flame and the circle is old

Starting point is 00:26:11 but yes it's not forgotten it remembers joy and it remembers peace and the light from the stones ebb and flows with your breath yes the stones are old but they're not forgotten.

Starting point is 00:26:35 They remember joy. They remember peace. The stones. Ebb's and flows with your breath. And as you inhale, they brighten. And as you exhale, they soften. It's as though they're breathing with you. The light dims

Starting point is 00:27:07 until only a warm glow remains in the stones. Work is done for tonight above the stars begin to drift ever so slowly like a soft snow falling upwards the sky ripples with faint

Starting point is 00:27:37 colours pink blue emerald reflecting the stones below you feel a gentle warmth in your chest now not from the fire but from within

Starting point is 00:27:58 a kind of still happiness contentment deeper than explanation you are exactly where you're meant to be as your body relaxes even further the sounds of the night the fire crackles gently walks silently along the airs only to glance

Starting point is 00:28:42 only to glance at you before disappearing again into the underbrush eyes grow and the warmth and joy just washes over you like a cozy

Starting point is 00:29:03 tide and your eyes are happy now like leaves drifting to the ground the fire's warmth wraps around you like a blanket the soft moss

Starting point is 00:29:23 craveling you like a bed, laws are blinking slowly, falling asleep. The sacred stone circle watches over you. It's glow now soft and steady, like the heartbeat of the earth itself, and you take one last deep breath, and it feels that the forest is breathing with you. You feel yourself drifting, drifting deeper, into the calm, into the magic, into the song of the stones, and you rest in the embrace of the earth's oldest lullaby with a forest watching over you, and the stones singing their silent hymn, and the stars shining only for you and your breathing slows. Your limbs soften with comfort and your heart is full of light and the fire beside you burns

Starting point is 00:30:53 live and wall and you drift into a peaceful glowing dream into the softest deepest sleep over the circle the stones will keep watch the night will hold you you will rise with a hush of magic still in your bones the memory of the circle glowing like embered like embers behind your eyes. But for now, drink. Good night.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - A Calming Sleep Story - The Magical Stone Circle

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