Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Daytime Meditation for Stress Relief (with Buddhist influence)

Episode Date: March 11, 2021

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Hello and welcome to Sleepcove with Christopher Fitton, the place to get a great night's sleep. Tonight's episode is part of the new content that we're producing, a daytime guided meditation for reducing for reducing stress and anxiety. It includes aspects of chakra taken from the Buddhist teachings of meditation, but you don't need to believe in these teachings, just close your eyes and let the meditation take over. I'd love to thank everyone who's been leaving fantastic reviews on Apple Podcasts recently. I read everyone and they mean so much to me. So, if you would like to leave a review, that would really help me,

as it helps to amplify the podcast and promote it to more people in need. Thank you very much. So please find a comfortable and safe place to listen to this meditation, a place where if you were to fall asleep, there wouldn't be a problem. Let's begin. Let's start by getting into your comfortable position and find a peaceful place, either sitting down with your legs crossed in a meditative position or lying down on a bed, sofa or floor.

Make sure you are comfortable and won't be disturbed. Close your eyes and bring your awareness to your physical body. Start to take some long, deep breath and feel the physical sensations arising within your body and stay connected to your breath. Whatever feelings begin to arise, such as concerns, worries or stress from your day, allow them to flow through you. Picture yourself as a current or a stream with gently flowing water. And hold this visual. Know that your body,

and all of your internal tides are similar to those of the natural world. You are completely connected to your external environments just as you are connected to your inner environment. Think this and know it within. Then focus again on your breath. sit with this visual and feeding and allow the current swaters to flow through you with your inner world.

Gently wiggle your toes, stretch your legs and shift your body. This will allow any tension or trapped energy to be moving and now bring your awareness to the point of above your eyes, just between your brow. As you may be aware, this is your third eye or anya chakra. It is from the Buddhist, Taoist and ancient texts of Asian tradition. This is the place of seat and knowledge and wisdom and your intuition, also linking you to dream states. It can enhance your perception, aid in positive thinking and bring greater awareness and mental clarity. Focus on this area while still being connected to your body and breathe

in and exhale five times, each with a deep, clear breath. Now breathe in deep, clear, from your abdomen and just above your stomach. And as you do, visualize a gentle golden light travelling up your spine and through your body to your brow and hold and relax your breath and let it connect to your brow your brow centre for three to five seconds. Slowly watching the same God

golden light flowing down from your brow to your stomach and repeat this to seven times. Yes, those sensations are real. Stay with them. Allow yourself to feel the sensations arising in your third eye centre and really feeling them and continue breathing from your belly up to your brow and back down. At this point you should feel lighter and breathing should be easier. Now think about something in your life which is giving you great stress. This can be anything from replaying a worry in your mind to a real issue at work in a relationship or any other area of life, and allow it to come into your awareness, finning your brow, remain conscious. Do not let it overcome you. You will still embrace the worry or hardship of yourself.

It is part of yourself, continue breathing and bringing your focus to your stomach region while still being aware of the thing causing you to stress inside your mind's eye. Now you must create an intention. This intention can be to open up your awareness of healing. Say it in your mind's eye and feel it. All the thoughts associated with your concern, problem or stress, to fill you up, enabling you to become the observer. Observe them, how do you feel?

What sensations are arising inside your body? What solutions are coming up? Without going too deep, be with these thought processes. Breathe into them and fill yourself up with space. Sit in the silence and calm awareness of these thoughts, worries and concerns, and allow them to become one with your mind and body. Do not resist, deny or repress. This is the key. Now that you are one with all the various thoughts and mental patterns associated with your stress, take a long, deep breath.

As you breathe in, send all of these thoughts, worries and concerns from your brow down into your stomach and abdomen, down into this abdomen region. This is your centre and you are about to release them. Stay conscious and breathe slowly. Watch the thoughts travel directly into your centre, like there is an invisible loop and spiral from brow to stomach. Now with your centre full, breathe out a long, deep and heavy breath. Exhale all those thoughts holding you down and watch them transform into a gentle loving light,

leaving your centre and stay with this feeling and visual. Now that your concerns and worries are leaving your body and that they are filled now with lightness, Shift your attention to your mind and brow once more back into your breathing. This time from your centre, take three long, deep breaths, visualising a healing, golden light, being drawn in up through your centre, that is the stomach and abdomen, into your third eye or brow. Watch it pass through your body, your heart, your neck and reciting in your brow. You should feel completely rejuvenated so allow this likeness to fill your entire being with your awareness, shifting to a new state of mind and clarity.

know that you are safe, supported and loved by the universe. God or whichever higher power you associate with, breathe consciously into this new state of awareness. Five times this stage your body and mind should be in a deep, relaxed state and now visualize your thoughts as clouds. Whatever thoughts wish to arise, see them floating in the sky in between the pure white clouds.

The sky is blue, it fills you with peace and serenity. The clouds are pure white, airy and light. There is no heaviness here. See a spark of pure white, all golden light, travel up from your feet. Just one spark, like a gentle but abrupt flash. It ends at the top of your head.

What thoughts arise? Where is your awareness shifted to? Place those thoughts around the clouds, either floating in between in the sky, or bouncing directly on top of the clouds. Keep this image in your mind and stay with it. Do not force or try to do anything. Observe your thoughts, the clouds and the sky.

Now, if you would like to, bring your right hand to your sacral, that's your centre and antarmen, and your left hand to the side. side of your body and keep your left arm facing up if you would like to again. This is known in many healing modalities as your receiving hand, as it is where life force and energy flows to you. Your right hand is known as your giving hand and can be used to channel or healing energy to spark your body's healing systems.

With your right hand on your centre and your left hand by your side, take five long deep breaths with the focus on the palms of your hands. And as he do this, briefly visualize a golden light, emanating from each hand as you breathe. and stay with this feeling for a moment. Notice any sensations? Allow all physical sensations to arise without reacting. Picture the golden light being projected from your right hand into your centre

as you take these deep breath into it five times with Conscious as you take these five breaths, consciously project healing and light intentions to come through your right hand with each breath. Feel your centre being energized from this loving and gentle light energy. How do you feel? Are there any emotions or memories coming up? Is there any discomfort or tension? Simply sit with this and continue your breathing, your deep breathing if you would like,

and just focus on the beautiful light emanating from your hand. Now take your awareness to your left palm and as you breathe in see a gentle white light coming through the air into your palm and allow the white light to be felt, being conscious of any tingling sensations, and breathe in five times with this conscious awareness. With each exhale,

see this light travelling up your arm into your heart. Finish each breath at your heart, seeing the light spinning out into your heart, or heart chakra if you wish. Be still with it. Simultaneously, see the night sky in your mind's eye and see the stars shimmering and glowing in the distance.

Are you not like the stars in the sky? The cells in your body are very similar to the shining stars. You are like a star. and furthermore your body is completely connected to the universe and galaxies as a whole. Finally, take seven conscious breaths, merging the two. With each inhale, see the golden light coming in through your right palm and radiating to your centre. With each exhale, feel the same light coming through, your left palm as a beautiful and powerful yet gentle white light and allow this to fill you up

all the way up to your heart also picture the same light flowing into the stars in the universe with each breath and synchronize yourself and your earthly body to the night sky galaxies and the universe, be still and breathe deeply. Return to your census while seeing the stars in the distant unknown. The darkness is not something to be feared, but it is a source of creation. You are now in a deep state of peace and connected to a world in possibilities. I want you to enjoy this and now that you are fully relaxed and ready to face the day. We're going to come back into the room and fully awake on the count of three.

One, muscles moving, eyes beginning to open. Two, feeling all the muscles engage, eyes fully open. eyes fully open and three back into the room fully awake and ready to face the day.