Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Feel Confident and Stress Free When Going Back to School (with relaxing rain sounds)
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Hello and welcome to Sleep Cove.
The place to come for a great night's sleep.
please listen to this recording in a place where you can safely go to sleep.
With more people going back to school, college and university,
or even going to new schools for the first time,
there can be a feeling of nervousness.
This is totally natural and an experience we have all felt.
And the aim of this recording is to reduce this nervousness as much as possible.
You'll realise that this is a shared experience and the recording will help you relax and help you realise why you have these feelings.
This recording can also be used by students who have been at school for a while now
and maybe perhaps are a little bit nervous about going to school the next day.
I also have a similar episode for people who are a little bit nervous about the upcoming.
week and the work week ahead. It's called Feel Good About the upcoming week. Don't stay up tonight
worrying about tomorrow. I'll leave a link in the show notes. This recording is for people
over 18 in higher education. When I mentioned school in this recording, I'm talking about higher
education as a catch-all. And let's begin in the state of self-meditation.
You're not asleep or unconscious.
You're aware of your surroundings.
You can't be forced to do anything that's against your will.
Don't worry about outside sounds and distractions
because you're soon able to relax completely
and can use the outside sounds to deepen your trance.
You're always in control
and can accept or reject suggestions as you wish.
Allow yourself to absorb the suggestions without evaluating or analysing.
Don't worry if your mind drifts off because you'll still gain the benefits from the suggestions.
When you find yourself focused on other thoughts, gently remind yourself to focus on my
voice and the suggestions. Don't worry about getting it or doing it right. Just allow yourself to feel
comfortable and relaxed in the safe place where you are listening to this recording. Now take a deep breath in
and if your eyes aren't closed already, please close them on the exhale. As you take a deep breath,
again and relax dropping your shoulders and detensing all the tight muscles in your body now imagine a cord
attached to the base of your spine and travelling all the way to the centre of the earth really anchor that
cord now into the centre of the earth wrapping the ends around anything
solid you find
and now the call
to expand to a size
that's comfortable
for you
and now release any stress
tension, anxiety
or negativity down that cord
you can release
any unfinished projects
or any people
who may want your attention
acknowledge any thoughts
that may come into
your mind and for now release them down your grounding core. Take another deep breath.
Halt the breath for a couple of seconds and exhale through your mouth with a sigh.
Relaxing even deeper that relaxation feeling flowing into your body as you inhale and all the negativity
disappears as you exhale.
You can disappear through your breathing
or it can disappear down this grounding core.
You feel so tranquil,
so calm and so relaxed.
And with your third deep breath,
once more fitting your lungs
with do you exhale,
and stress,
and tension to flow out of your body.
It's not necessary to hear any outside sounds or anyone else's voice.
Now you can enjoy the comfort of drifting into a deep state of renunciation.
If you really need to, you can wake up.
But otherwise this time is for you now.
Just for you for all that tension.
to relax and detents of your muscles,
for all that stress to flow out of you
and to feel calm and soothed
from your head to your feet.
This is the most important process
for you to be doing now
and the most important place to be.
Just allow yourself to let go
and relax those muscles, relax those shoulders, relax your mind,
you focus your awareness on the muscles on the top of your head,
and you begin to feel a wave of relaxation flowing from the top of your head,
over your forehead and into your eyebrows.
You tensing all the muscles in your forehead and smoothing out all the lines.
And this moves around your eyes.
Bathing your eyes with each tiny little muscle relaxing around your eyes.
So your eyelids just feel light and faint across your eyes.
You feel yourself drifting deeper and focusing on the same.
sound of my voice. You feel yourself drifting deeper, deeper and deeper, relaxing more and more
with this relaxation feeling moving across your nose and down into your cheeks. The muscles
melting down just like butter melting on a warm stove, drifting deeper as the muscles around your
well, relax. And that relaxation flows into your jaw and into your tongue, and your teeth may
separate slightly as your jaw relaxes. And that's fine relaxation to flow from the top of your head,
down over the back of your head, into your neck, into your shoulders, like getting a nice
massage, around your ears and temples and down into your neck muscles, and you even might move your
neck a bit, that tension releasing. And as the muscles begin to blend and melt, feel yourself
drifting deeper and deeper with each easy breath you take, as this meditation really relaxes you.
deeply inside your soul and inside your muscles.
You don't need to listen to outside thoughts if you don't want to.
You can go deeper and deeper
and let the relaxation flow from your neck
into your shoulders, removing all the tension,
and your shoulders drop
with a comfortable relaxation feeling.
feeling of looseness and you allow the muscles to let go completely. Notice how much more relaxed
you are right now. Even more than a few moments ago, the wave of comfort begins to flow across your
shoulders and down your arms. You feel the relaxation moving into each and every muscle.
into every muscle.
Nerve and tend to relax and that go with the muscles melting away easily and effortlessly
as the feeling goes into your upper back and moving down, soothing your spine and lower back,
rises up again, back into your shoulders, and that feeling moves into your shoulders,
down your shoulders into your fingers and arms
relaxing more with each easy breath
and as you relax
you allow all the stress
and tension to drain out of the very tips of your fingers
as you relax and let go
you relax more with each easy
and as you relax you allow all the stress and tension
to drain out
more and more. And now that wave of relaxation comes back up to your shoulders and down your chest,
into your stomach where your breathing is deep and slow, and all discomfort and disorder
goes from your body and you relax and your mind clears. That wave of relaxation flows around your waist,
now and into your hips and feel those muscles melting as you allow yourself to relax.
You may feel a pleasant tingling now as the feeling moves all the way down into your calves
and your ankles and your toes and all pain and tension goes.
And you feel a lovely feeling from the top of your head flowing down, flowing down, and your toes.
flowing down all the way through your entire body.
Spreads in your thighs, your knees,
your calves as you relax more deep.
That feeling of relaxation goes from the very tips to the top.
Feel deeply, deeply relaxed again
in a complete state of relaxation.
As you enter your own point,
private haven, a beautiful place of peace, comfort and tranquility. A place where you are deeply
relaxed. A place where it's safe to feel all your feelings. A place where it's safe to express your
feelings. A place where you are relaxed and at peace. And you allow your subconscious mind to fully
open as a flower opens to the rays of the sun.
is good and deep and snow.
You visualize yourself being in a beautiful place.
A special place.
You just enjoy it for a minute or two.
You're here because you may be going to school,
tomorrow or in the future,
and you may feel a little nervous.
I first want to know that everyone feels nervous
in these circumstances.
But when we look back
We realise that it perhaps wasn't as much
Of a big thing
That we realised
It's so natural to have these feelings
And it goes back to when we were cavemen
We got adrenaline and nervousness
In new strange situations
Of life
We are still the same as those cavemen
So when we
go into new situations, we get nervous and stress. Everything is going to be okay.
Being a little worried about going to school. This might be after a summer break, or that it's
just the weekend or a weekday. And you are worried about going to school the next day.
You may be worried about school and what you might encounter.
or just because you are leaving home and leaving your loved one.
Whatever it is, you can fix that mindset will change and you will start place to be.
Every single don't want you to imagine that it is the end of a summer break or a weekend break
and you're back in your new classroom and school with new tutors,
teachers and classmates. You are really prepared and you have everything that you need to have with you,
your pencil and pens and books, and everything you need to make today a success.
You're always going to be prepared. You also have an air of self-confidence.
You are full of self-esteem. You are going to your school.
No other person has a claim over your experience in school
to make you nervous as this school is for you.
It's here to help you, to nurture you.
Today could be the start of the week or a new turn,
but it can be a fresh start for you
as our past does not have to influence
our future
as you go to school you see
the welcoming people
and friendly faces
you notice that there are people
on their own
and this is a new experience
for them as well
you start speaking to them
and putting them at ease
and you start to ask
where they are from
and what they are studying
and you put them at ease
and start to talk about shared experiences, like pop culture or TV shows.
You even talk about what they are going to expect from the new class.
The conversation just flows effortlessly.
You realize that there are, but you can just talk to them calmly,
and the nerves go.
Your nerves go.
You feel so.
at peace and confident.
You feel great and self-assure
whilst being yourself at all times.
You love this feeling
and you aim to be like this as often as you can
because being yourself and confident with who you are
is really a good thing.
You go into the room and sit down
The teacher tells you what is going to be happening and welcomes you to the day
and what will be upcoming in the days to come.
There are breaks to chat to your classmates and get to know each other.
Everything is calm and you enjoy the calm and even a little bit of excitement of the day.
Most people are nice and friendly.
and maybe there are a couple of people who seem a little bit overconfident
but there always are people want to hear what you have to say
after this you have a new class where you do some work
you're excited and eager to hear new ideas and thoughts
and think the class is incredible and can't wait for it again
you feel that you need to be challenged
and it makes you so happy
you are able to concentrate
fully on the class
and you know you have plenty of time
to learn before any exams or tests
you are really going to try hard
at the beginning of the semester all term
so that you are really prepared
for the work later in the year
the more you attend classes, your schools and grades increase.
You may have dreams to move further into different educational fields
in your chosen subject,
and you have the confidence to study and revise to achieve your goals.
You will look forward to going to school more and more.
This will be a place where you learn
make great friends
and maybe even find love
many people who are older in life
sometimes realise they would love to go back to this time
even though that might not feel like this now
if you are in higher educational university
this is the time when you can live independently and free
when school is over
you feel that you can go home
and think about the friendships you are building
and how much new knowledge you have absorbed.
You have become like a sponge
information and knowledge
flows into you.
You look forward to school the next day
and the day after
and you realise how much you are enjoying it.
School is something really to look forward to.
You feel confident serene and ready to be great every school day.
This is an exciting new adventure for you.
Everyone is eager to get to know you and you are eager to get to know them.
Your new teachers are nice and you love going to class.
You enjoy studying at night.
You always caught up with your studies.
So you have no reason to be nervous
about being behind on them.
Nervousness is now behind you
and you can just experience
serene calm from now.