Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Forgive Yourself - Guided Sleep Meditation

Episode Date: April 13, 2021

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of self-forgiveness. We sometimes think about things in the past that we did wrong and these latent memories stay with us causing stress. Sometimes these wrongs can be real or imaginary and through this recording you will be able to forgive yourself. This meditation is helpful in letting go of guilt and negative self-talk around mistakes you've made in the past, all patterns of unhealthy behaviours.

We will think differently and be at peace and calm, and importantly we will have forgiven ourselves. Some of us fight it hard to forgive ourselves, sometimes for things that we have done long ago, even for some things that we realise was not a major incident. can linger in our head for years. I want you now to get as comfortable as you can do and move around in your favourite position.

And when you are ready, close your eyes and breathe in to a count of five, then hold it to a count of two, and then relax and breathe out to a count of seven. you want to make sure that you do deep impactful breaths through the breath and make sure you're breathing through the stomach so with each breath breathe in to a count of five hold it for two

and then relax out on a count of seven deep breaths through your stomach you will fall into a deep level of breathing and your breathing patterns will settle and your body will take this as a signal to relax. We will scan our body

for any tension and we'll start from the top of our head moving down the body and any tension and the muscles and the head and the common places from out the forehead

and the areas between the eyes and the jaws will gently detents and relax and all tense muscles will soon ambiities see if you can deliberately relax all the muscles in your head and face and next move down to your neck

shoulders and arms and intentionally let go of all the muscles of your neck, shoulders and arms, and move to your torso and scan your back and chest detensing and soothing the muscles and back up from your back and chest and back up into your neck, shoulders and arms. The feeling of relaxation moves through you

and then it goes down again into your torso and into your legs, your thighs, your glues, through your entire legs to your feet, with all tension going, relaxing. As you take the deep breath, you feel relaxed right from the top of your head down to the tips of your tail. your face and head feel so relaxed.

Your neck, shoulders and arms, your back, your torso, your chest, your stomach and finally you'll and you feel the relaxing feeling again. Flow from the top of your head down into the tips of your toes as you take those deep, deep breath. And now in your mind's eye you are going to your head. to take a walk in a landscape of your ideal place, a safe place. Imagine a place of deep relaxation. It could be a meadow, a park, a valley, a beach. It may be somewhere where you have been to before or a place that you have never visited. But it is a place. a place when you can relax.

Create this feeling and this place in your mind's eye. We will concentrate to forgive ourselves as you breathe into your lungs. You're getting into the right headspace to forgive ourselves now. It may be difficult to think about, but you may want to remove these thoughts now. You have felt guilty and you have paid for this enough through stress and suffering. And that is enough already. We can all make mistakes

and if we truly regret the actual mistakes we have done, we can move on. We do not need to be defined by them anymore and even the worries you may have about mistakes that don't even really matter. you can move on from this as well. People have unrealistic expectations that we should not be making mistakes

but we all make mistakes and mistakes gives us opportunities to learn. We are striving to be better day by day and we do not want to be stuck in our negative thinking for past mistakes our memories are going to give us this guilt and we want to let go of those memories and to focus on the future

and the opportunities of the future think about all the good things that you have done in the past and now in the present realise that you are a good person and the positives that you do now outweigh the negatives of the past. You are going to find it easy to forgive yourself for the things that you may have done wrong in the past.

Whether those wrongs were real or imaginary and whether they are in your conscious mind or buried within the subconscious, you are going to find yourself easily able to let go of any guilt feelings associated with these actions because you are a normal human being with normal emotions

and normal drives and you're sometimes prone to make normal human errors as we all do but those errors those human mistakes are now in the past and we cannot and we should not attempt

to rewrite history because everything that happens to us is part of what makes us human and the very fact that we are able to feel guilt tells us that we are human

and tells us that we are a caring person because if we feel no guilt then that would mean that we do not care and it is only the person who does not care that should feel guilty and yet it is only the person who cares who does

so now it is time for you to just be a little kinder to yourself to accept that the guilt you have been feeling is the subconscious mind's way of letting you punish yourself for things you feel you may have done wrong but there is always a limit to the amount of punishment

that is needed for any wrongdoing every caring person knows that and when that limit has been reached there is no just need or cause for that punishment to continue and a caring person finds it easy to forgive people and their mistakes. So you can forgive yourself now, just as you would forgive others for their errors and their mistakes, because those things you feel you may have done wrong were errors and just mistakes.

So there is no need now to further your punishment. Most of the time and nearly all of the time, you don't make these errors. Nearly all the time you do the right thing and you have always tried to do this because you have believed it is the right thing to do and because of this you're going to find it easy to forgive yourself right now and right this minute. You're going to find yourself easily able to let go of any guilty feelings associated with these things that you feel and that you have done wrong.

Whether those feelings are in the conscious mind or buried within the depths of the subconscious. It's all right to let go of those feelings of guilt and to accept that you are a whole, complete and worthwhile person. We cannot change the past, but we can change the future. And I want you to focus on the positive things that you are going to do in the future now. I want you to think about why you feel guilty and think about this reason. And in your mind's eye, I want you to write it down on a piece of paper. write it completely down you are finished

and it completely disappears you have now imagine now in 12 months from now you can visionise yourself and see yourself in your mind's eye and you see all the good things that you are doing all the good things that you have done in the last 12 months and you have compassion

and you have made good decisions and you are at peace it feels so good to see how far you have come if memories of the guilt come back to you just think I do not need to feel guilty

for these feelings anymore they will not cause me stress and anxiety and just say stop I will not feel anxious anymore. I am undertaking positive actions now and will judge myself on these actions and feel positive from now on. You will not do any negative self-talk around the mistakes you've made in the past or from the patterns around unhealthy behaviours. Mistakes are a wonderful

opportunity to learn and you have learned and you've learned. And you've learned valuable. life lessons. So you want to spend time exploring your new growth in peace and forgiveness and say I have forgiven myself now. I have forgiven myself. Forgiven myself. Forgiven myself. I have forgiven myself. You can go and love yourself and be at peace without anxieties. without stress and just feel lovely at peace, at calm, addities going forward from now on. People have unrealistic expectations that we should not be making mistakes, but we all make mistakes and mistakes gives us opportunities to learn. we are striving to be better day by day

and we do not want to be stuck in our negative thinking for past mistakes our memories are going to give us this guilt and we want to let go of those memories and to focus on the future and the opportunities of the future think about all the good things that you have done in the past and now in the present, realize that you are a good person, and the positives that you do now outweigh the negatives of the past.

You are going to find it easy to forgive yourself for the things that you may have done wrong in the past, whether those wrongs were real or imaginary, and whether they are. in your conscious mind or buried within the subconscious you are going to find yourself easily able to let go of any guilt feelings associated with these actions because you are a normal human being with normal emotions and normal drives and you're sometimes prone to make normal human errors, as we all do. But those errors, those human mistakes, are now in the past. We cannot and we should not attempt to rewrite history.

Because everything that happens to us is part of what makes us human and the very fact that we are able to feel guilt tells us that we are human and tells us that we are a caring person because if we feel no guilt then that would mean that we do not care and it is only the person who does not care that should feel guilty

and yet it is only the person who cares who cares who. does. So now it is time for you to just be a little kinder to yourself, to accept that the guilt you have been feeling is the subconscious mind's way of letting you punish yourself the things you feel you may have done wrong. But there is always a limit to the amount of punishment that is needed for any wrongdoing. Every caring person knows that and when that limit has been reached there is no just need or cause for that punishment to continue and a caring person finds it easy to forgive people and their mistakes so you can forgive yourself now just as you would forgive others for their errors and their mistakes

because those things you feel you may have done wrong were errors. and just mistakes. So there is no need now to further your punishment. Most of the time and nearly all of the time, you don't make these errors. Nearly all the time you do the right thing and you have always tried to do this because you have believed it is the right thing to do

and because of this you're going to find it easy to forgive yourself right now and right this. minute. You're going to find yourself easily able to let go of any guilty feelings associated with these things that you feel and that you have done wrong, whether those feelings are in the conscious mind or buried within the depths of the subconscious. It's all right to let go of those feelings of guilt and to accept that you are a whole, complete and worthwhile person. We cannot change the past, but we can change the future.

And I want you to focus on the positive things that you are going to do in the future now. I want you to think about why you feel guilty and think about this reason. And in your mind's eye, I want you to write it down on a piece of paper. Write it completely down. You are finished that piece of paper into a tight ball. Throw it away. Throw it away as hard as you can. And it completely disappears.

You have now let go of the past. Imagine now in 12 months from now, you can visionise yourself. and see yourself in your mind's eye and you see all the good things that you are doing and all the good things that you have done in the last 12 months and you have compassion and you have made good decisions

and you are at peace it feels so good to see how far you have come if memories of the guilt come back to you just think I do not need to feel guilty for these feelings anymore. They will not cause me stress and anxiety. And just say stop, I will not feel anxious anymore. I am undertaking positive actions now and will judge myself on these actions

and feel positive from now on. You will not do any negative self-talk around the mistakes, you've made in the past, or from the patterns around unhealthy behaviours. Mistakes are a wonderful opportunity to learn, and you have learned, and you've learned valuable life lessons. So you want to spend time exploring your new growth in peace and forgiveness and say, I have forgiven myself now, myself. forgiving myself, forgiving myself, forgive myself.

You can go and love yourself without anxieties, without stress, and just feel lovely at peace, at calm, and at ease going forward from now on.