Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Daytime Meditation - Make Your Mind Like An Ocean
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Hello and welcome to Sleep Cove. The episode today is a daytime guided meditation to help
you reduce anxiety and to help you experience your mind like an ocean. It's great to ground
yourself and then wake up from the meditation in a positive mental state and ready to take on the day.
So please get into a comfortable position where you are ready to take on this meditation and you could
fall asleep safely if you needed to. So let's begin this meditation. I'm really looking forward to it.
So please get into that comfortable position where we can start.
And so to reduce anxiety, start by taking a moment to relax your body.
Soften any unnecessary tension in your belly and shoulder
and find a posture that feels both relaxed and alert.
Rest your hands in an easy, effortless way
and with a few moments of thinking and resting.
With your eyes open, scan your awareness through the same.
sensations of your body and wherever possible soften and release obvious areas of physical tension
let your eyes stay open and focus on the middle of the room wherever you are then see how you can let
your awareness, travel across the room from where you're sitting. If you're lying down,
you can let your attention go upwards to the ceiling. Notice how you can let your attention
come back to the centre of the room and see if you can bring your attention. You can bring your attention.
closer to about book reading distance.
As if you're reading a book in your hands.
So clearly you can determine where your attention goes
and now you can let your eyes close
and just let your attention go inward
and gently focus on the sensations of the breath, moving in the body.
Your attention go to wherever the breath comes from naturally to you.
For some people, it's the sensations of the air in the nostrils,
with that gentle feeling coming in and as the air passes.
in and out of the nostrils.
Others they naturally feel the breath in the chest
with the rising and falling of the chest
with each half breath in.
And for most beginners,
people feel the breath most naturally in the belly.
The diaphragm underneath the lungs
lungs, putting air into the lungs, expanding your belly as you breathe in.
Air is released from the lungs as you breathe out, the belly actually moves inward,
sensing the abdominal movements in so see if you can let your awareness ride the wave of the breath.
Wherever you feel it most naturally, your nostrils, your chest, your movement, or for some people, it's even just the whole body breathing.
Whatever comes naturally for you. Just let your attention ride of your breathing as you as you're sensing your breath in and out.
you may also sense that your mind is as vast as the ocean.
Where deep in the ocean, beneath the surface, it's calm and clear.
You can look upwards towards the surface.
No matter what is going, no matter what those conditions are.
deep in the ocean. It's calm and clear and just sensing your breath to access the depth
and stillness of your mind as the ocean. From this deep, peaceful place you can look
upward at the waves at the surface. The brain waves that are the
thoughts and emotions and conditions of your mind. Can you notice these fleeting
that are just there at the surface? You pretty quickly out of your awareness each day
like waves at the top of the ocean. Sensing your breath bringing you back to this
peaceful place feeling the profound depth.
your mind when a thought comes or a feeling, memory or sensation, warms and calms you.
Take note of that mental activity and redirect your attention to the breath and then let your attention return to the breath to this depth of your mind.
You can just sense and observe the activities of the mind as just activities
and not the totality of who you are.
See if you can let yourself enjoy the deep tranquility that comes from just sensing the breath.
Knowing that just focusing your mind on your breathing,
brings you to this deep place of calm and clarity.
When you are ready, you can let your eyes open and come back into the room.
May you bring this same quality of kind awareness to the rest of your day,
feeling relaxed in your body and mind,
and feeling like you can grab.
the day. Thank you.