Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Counting Cards
Episode Date: May 30, 2022Most people have heard about counting sheep to help you sleep, in tonight's episode we will try something different as I will be counting through a deck of cards. This will have the same effect as cou...nting sheep, but I will do the work for you, and you will soon be drifting off to sleep. Please leave a 5-star review & SUBSCRIBE on Apple and Spotify. Sleep Cove Premium Become a Premium Member for Bonus Episodes & Ad-Free listening: Visit https://www.sleepcove.com/support and become a Premium Member. Get Instant Access and sign up in two taps. The Sleep Cove Premium Feed includes: - Access to over 400 Ad-free Episodes - Regular Exclusive Bonus Episodes - A Back Catalogue of Dozens of Exclusive Episodes - Full Audiobooks like Alice in Wonderland - Your name read out on the Show - Our Love! Get your 7-day free trial: https://sleepcove.com/support For Apple users, click the TRY FREE button for a 2-week free trial and become a Premium Member Today. Support our Sponsors: This episode of Sleep Cove is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/sleepcove and get on your way to being your best self. Our Sister Shows: - Calm Cove - https://link.chtbl.com/bgSKfkbt - Relaxing Music & Ambient Sounds - Mysteries at Midnight - Mystery Bedtime Stories - https://link.chtbl.com/skj6YFah - Let's Begin - Daytime Meditations with wake sections at the end - https://link.chtbl.com/Z--DgSH4 - YouTube Bedtime Story Channel - https://rb.gy/t7wyjk - YouTube Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClE6WJgPYRBtwVQ1qDBrbqw Connect: - Join the Newsletter for a Bonus Meditation - https://www.sleepcove.com/bonus - Facebook: https://rb.gy/azpdrd - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sleep_cove/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sleepcovechris Recommended Products: Comfortable Sleep Headphones - https://www.sleepcove.com/headphones The Best Mattress from Puffy: https://sleepcove.com/puffy Our Sister Shows in more detail: Calm Cove is our music channel, where you can find Relaxing Music, White Noise and Nature Sounds - https://link.chtbl.com/bgSKfkbt Let’s Begin is our brand new Day Meditation podcast. Start your day feeling relaxed and positive, or take some time out to unwind with these calming meditations with wakeners at the end so that you can continue your day. If you love our bedtime stories, check out Mysteries at Midnight, our brand-new podcast dedicated to the mystery stories our listeners love so much. Enjoy even more from Poirot, Sherlock and more classic mystery tales. _______________ All Content by Sleep Cove is for educational or entertainment purposes and does not provide or replace professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your medical professional before making any changes to your treatment and if in any doubt, contact your doctor. Please listen in a place where you can safely go to sleep. Sleep Cove is not responsible or liable for any loss, damage or injury arising from the use of this content. _________________ Sleep Cove content includes guided sleep meditations, sleep hypnosis (hypnotherapy), sleep stories (visualizations) and Bedtime Stories for adults and grown-ups, all designed to help you get a great night's sleep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Please listen to this recording in a place where you can safely go to sleep.
Hi, I'm Christopher Fitton, the voice and host of Sleep Cove.
And tonight we're going to be doing an exercise.
that is a little bit different.
We have all heard about counting sheep
when we go to bed
and this can help us drift off to sleep
as our mind doesn't concentrate
on perhaps the thoughts
that are keeping us up.
Tonight we'll be counting
playing cards together.
I'm going to shuffle a packet of cards
and read the names of the card
out to you
as we count down from the 50 second card to their last card left.
I want you to imagine each card face in your mind's eye as I name each one
and you will relax your mind and only good thoughts will come in if any.
I'd love to share a quick fact about playing cards before we begin.
The chances that anybody has ever shuffled a pack of cards in the same way twice in the history of the world, or ever will again, is infinitesimally small.
That fact for me was a real brain twister.
If every person on earth shuffled one deck of cards every second for the lifetime of the universe,
there will be a one in a trillion, trillion, trillion chance of two decks matching.
So what you'll be hearing tonight is something unique that no one in the world has ever heard before.
And I think that's amazing.
Firstly, let's take some deep breaths together to get relaxed.
So get comfortable in your bed and move around and get in.
into that most comfortable spot for you.
So let's take a deep breath in through our stomach
and out through our stomach as well.
You could always put one hand on your stomach
and one hand on your chest
and you want to make sure
that your stomach is gently moving up and down
and you're not breathing through your chest or your shoulders.
You want to be taking deep,
breath in through your stomach, in and out slowly.
And let's take a couple together.
Take a deep breath in.
Hold it for one, two, three seconds, and then relax out.
And do you want to make sure that the exhale is longer than the inhale?
And let's do this again.
filling the lungs deeply with oxygen, holding for one, two, three,
and then gently relax the air out of your lungs.
And taking deep breaths like this before bed,
calms your brain down and your body,
as you're making the right blood chemistry for calm through your breathing.
and let's speak in
so let's start counting cards
and I've got a beautiful set of cards here
they're the artisan cards by Theory 11
and they're the white edition
and the tuck case
which is the technical name
for the case for a packet of cards
is white with gold
foil embossing
quite classic, maybe classic Victorian design.
And I'm going to be opening up the packet of cards now.
I'm taking the cards out and putting the tuckcase to one side.
And there's a couple of cards I'm going to take out of the deck.
Three exactly.
There is a Gaff card, which is double backsided, meaning it has the back on each side.
And the back is gold ink design, with an A and a G intertwined,
and then flipped, mirror image flipped for the bottom side of the design as well,
with some nice embalishments.
And I'm going to put this to one side.
And the other two cards I'm going to take out are the Joker,
and looking at the Joker card now.
the Joker is in set juggling the four suits of spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts
and is called the Jolly Joker within a stamp.
I'm going to put that to one side now and I'm going to put the second Joker down as well.
I'm going to shuffle the cards now
to make sure we have a completely unique deck of cards
for the talk down tonight.
I'm going to give it a good shuffle.
You might even hear it on the microphone.
I'm just going to be putting down the shuffle deck of cards now on the table.
And I'm going to be starting from 52 to 1.
52.
We have the ace of hearts.
51.
We have the Queen of Hearts.
50.
We have the Queen of Clubs, 49.
We have the King of Diamonds, 48.
We have the six of diamonds, 47.
We have the seven of diamonds, 46, we have the two of diamonds, 45, is the seven of spades,
44 is the six of clubs.
The try and picture the playing card in your mind's eye
as I go through them and count down to one.
43 is the Queen of Spades.
42 is the four of clubs.
41 is the King of Spades.
40.
is the three of diamonds
39 is the three of gloves
38 is the eight of spades
37 is the queen of diamonds
36 is the eight of gloves
35 is the five of diamonds
34 is the seven of gloves
33
is the nine of spades.
32 is the 10 of diamonds.
31 is the 4 of diamonds.
30 is the 9 of clubs.
29 is the 9 of half.
28 is the jack of hearts.
27 is the ace of club.
26 is the ace of spades.
25 is the jack of clubs.
24 is the 2 of hearts.
23 is the 5 of hearts.
22 is the 2 of clubs.
21 is the 4 of hearts.
20 is the 3 of hearts.
19 is the 5 of space.
18 is the jack of diamonds.
17 is the 10 of spades.
16 is the 10 of clubs.
15 is the king of hearts.
14 is the 10 of hearts.
13 is the 9 of diamonds.
It's the 7 of hearts.
11 is the jack of spades.
It's the 3 of spades.
Is the 8.
7 is the 5.
of clubs. Six is the eight of hearts. Five is the eight of diamonds. Four is the six of space.
Three is the two of spades. Two is the king of clubs and the final card. Is the six of hearts.