Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Guided Sleep Meditation for an Overactive Mind - Release Stress and Overthinking and Relax

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

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the podcast and YouTube channel to get a great night's sleep. Please subscribe to the show and put your phone away by the side of the bed and listen to this recording in a place where you can comfortably and safely go to sleep. This episode is a guided meditation for an overactive mind. It will help you gently quiet your thoughts that are keeping you away. awake at night and you'll drift off to sleep very quickly and within 20 minutes. I hope you enjoy it. And let's begin.

I'm so glad you'll hear with me tonight. And you've given me the opportunity to guide you into restful sleep. I know that today might have given you a great deal to think about. Perhaps your mind has been busy for hours, turning things over, revisiting conversations, making plans and finding problems where they may be none. And that's okay. That's what busy minds do. But tonight, going to rest, who are going to relax? and that every single fault that you've been carrying is gently going to be set aside you don't need to solve anything tonight

you don't need to plan anything you don't need to remember everything that needs your attention will still be there tomorrow and you will be far better off to meet it after a wonderful night of sleep. So the job you only have to do tonight is to rest. So get yourself in the most comfortable position for you right now. Adjust your pillow if you need to.

Shift and move your body. into whatever position is comfortable for you. And if you haven't already, gently close your eyes and make sure you are breathing nice and slowly. Breathing through your stomach

and not doing upper chest breathing to gently rise on the inhale, the fall on the exhale. breathing in relaxation and letting go any stress. With each breath that you take, and with each word that is said and uttered, you can feel your body perhaps relaxing more and more.

And perhaps you can begin to notice the wonderful feelings of heaviness settling through you. Your muscles getting soft, they're sinking into the bed, and you begin to feel so relaxed from the top of your head, all the way to the tips of your toes.

You're beginning to feel so good, and I wonder if you can bring your awareness now to your feet and toes. And there is a gentle warm energy moving into the soles of your feet, feet and that energy is causing all the tiny muscles there to simply let go and become loose and your toes relax and the arch of your foot releases and the heel of your foot just drops down and rest and there's a warm relaxing energy slowly moves into the heel of your foot just drops down and rest and rest and there's warm relaxing energy

slowly moves into your calves it reaches your calf muscles and they become quite loose and relaxed just like a handful of loose rubber bands and the tension simply fades away and with each breath that you take and when each word of that is uttered perhaps you can feel your body

relaxing more and more sinking a little deeper down into the mattress beneath you and this relaxing energy is moving into your thigh muscles causing them to simply let go and become loose

and you can let your thigh muscles just loosen and be heavy completely at ease lows into your hips all the muscles there and if you're carrying any tension into your lower back at all this simply dissipates now

as you breathe out breathe all stress and tension out so good the energy moves into your stomach and your abdominal muscles soften and release letting you do deep breath

breath doing deeper all through the stomach, letting go into your upper chest, into your shoulders, letting your shoulders sink and drop just a little, dropping a little down. And this is such a wonderful sign that you so well, relaxing how you're into a state of pure relaxation, pure calm, as your shoulders have dropped, as any weight of the day, as God, the energy flows down your shoulders, through your upper arms, past your elbows, all the way down to your forearms, to your wrists and hands, and you may even feel a pleasant tingling sensation in your fingertips. As the energy reaches them and all that tension

simply dissolves away. And now this relaxing, this calming, this calming, this heeding energy flows up now into your neck. And if you're holding any tension there, It simply dissipates and the neck muscles become loose, free and easy. Energy moves into your face now and all the tiny muscles around your eyes, nose and mouth. Just let go and your jaw relaxes. And a little space forms between your teeth and even your tongue.

your jaw just rest together and all the sounds you hear, including the sound of my voice, only serve to help you go deeper and deeper to sleep, and your mind is beginning to wonder now. And that's okay. It means you are relaxing and feeling so good, so amazing. Your subconscious mind is listening very carefully To every word I say

And with each word That I utter And with each breath That you take You can feel yourself relaxing Even more I want you to imagine That you are now standing on the top

Of a beautiful, wide staircase and the staircase leads down to the deepest most peaceful place of rest you've ever known as I count down from 10 to 1 with each number I say you will take one slow step down the staircase

and with each step you will feel yourself going twice as deeply relaxed as you were before. Ten, taking that first gentle step down, feeling the relaxation deepen. Nine, a second step. And you feel heavier now. More at ease. That's good, that's very good. 7.

You're doing so well. 6. Halfway down and the peace is growing around you. 5. The world above you. Feels very far away now. 4. Deeper and deeper into this beautiful calm. 3. Almost at the bottom. and you feel so wonderfully and completely relaxed. 2.

Feeling doubly, deeply relaxed than before. There's just one more step and you can allow yourself to fully arrive and let go. End of one. You are there now at the bottom of the steps. You see a wooden door in front of you. It's got some glass in it. and you can just about see what's up ahead, and you open the door, the cool handle in your hand,

and push the wooden door in front of you, and step through, and in your mind's eye, you find yourself at the edge of a quiet forest. At the very end of a long summer evening and the sky with the trees, is the deepest shade of Indigoam blue scattered with the first early stars beginning to appear. Fully still and you will follow a soft path through the trees and the ground is carpeted with moss. And it gives away gently beneath each step. The sound is barely a whisper and the further you walk

the more the sounds of the world fall away behind you after a short while you come to the edge of a forest and before you lies a small calm lake the surface of the water is so still

that it mirrors the sky above it perfectly and you can see the stars reflecting in there and the last golden light at the horizon and the whole world feels quiet and held and safe. You sit down at the water's edge and the soft bank of grass and you feel the warmth of the earth beneath you and the gentleness of the evening air against your skin in this hidden place.

There is no time and no space for worry. Everything that was heavy is simply not here. There are no expectations, no demands. Nothing you have to do but breathe and be present in this beautiful moment. You notice the sounds around you. Perhaps the faintest murmur of the water. perhaps the distant call of a night bird and these sounds only carry you

deeper and deeper into peace and if you hear any sounds in your environment they only serve to deeper near relaxation now and you look out across the still water of the night and you notice that every now and then drifts down from the trees and learns

softly on the surface and you watch it drift gently and it's so easy to watch without following, without holding on just allowing each thought to float nothing and requiring nothing

as you rest here in this deep natural peace loss of conscious mind is I've been a receptive now I want to offer it something very gently. Perhaps you will allow yourself to notice how the water is so still between the leaves that drift across it.

The water itself isn't changed by anything that lands upon it. It simply receives and lets go and remains perfectly still beneath. Perhaps you can feel now that your mind is something like that water deeper than any thought that passes through it quieter than any worry

more still than any plan or fear or question do you allow yourself to feel this now that underneath all the noise of the day there is a place in you that has always been quiet, that has always been at rest, patient stillness, that no thought can disturb and no worry can reach, and you allow this to become true for you now. Perhaps you notice that the thoughts that were so loud earlier this evening, beginning to thin and soften, the mist clears at the end of it has worked hard this wisdom. mind possesses wisdom to release, to trust that you have done enough today, night you give.

Yourself this gift. The gift of a quiet mind, a resting mind, is at peace and clear. And tomorrow when you're awake, you'll feel the difference. The things that felt entangled, untangled within you. will feel clearer. The things that felt heavy will feel lighter because a mind that has rested is the mind that can meet the world with grace and ease. And you can carry this feeling forward now, this deep and natural quiet, into the dream state that awaits you. You feel so good and you're doing so well.

You've done something truly wonderful for yourself tonight simply by being here by choosing rest. By allowing yourself this time you have given your mind and your body exactly what they need. I'm so proud of you

and you should be proud of yourself because choosing to look after yourself, choosing sleep, choosing peace, choosing to release the day, that's not a small thing, that's an act of deep self-care, and you deserve every moment of rest that is coming to you now and so it's time to drift off, to let your eyes come. grow heavier and your mind grow quieter with each breath that you take to allow the stillness of this moment to carry you gently down deeper and deeper into the most comfortable and natural sleep deeper and deeper now more and more relaxed drifting off good night