Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Guided Sleep Meditation for Stress - Bonus Episode for International Stress Awareness Week

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Starting point is 00:01:59 You'll go to your special place after being deeply relaxed. Let go of all your stress. in a visualization. I hope you enjoy it. Please remember to subscribe for all new free updates. Begin. This is your space. A few minutes carved out of time to slow down, soften and simply breathe. You don't need to fix anything right now. You don't need to figure anything. nothing out. There's nowhere else you need to be and nothing else you need to do. Just allow yourself to be here, to feel supported, to let go.

Starting point is 00:03:03 Stress is not who you are. It's simply the body's way of asking for a moment. just like this one. And you can let go of stress. So in this meditation, I'll be your guide. Helping you drift inward. Letting the noise of the day fade into the background as you return to calm, to clarity and to peace.

Starting point is 00:03:41 Listen. So please allow yourself to settle into whatever position feels best for you you might be sitting upright or lying back and just take a moment to allow your body

Starting point is 00:04:09 to feel supported there's nothing you need to do nothing you need to figure out you're allowed right now to simply be that's right, This time is just for you and if you haven't closed your eyes already, you can bring attention to a single point,

Starting point is 00:04:40 maybe a spot on the ceiling or a mark on the wall or even just the soft blur of space in front of you and that your gaze rest there for a moment. Close your eyes and begin to notice your breathing. Just observe it. Notice where. where you're breathing from. You want to be breathing through the belly area and not the chest area or the upper chest area. If you're breathing through the upper chest, that means you are shallow breathing, which causes a cycle of stress.

Starting point is 00:05:47 You want to allow your shoulders to drop and concentrate moving your belly, slowly in and air. breathing knee recalibrates your blood chemistry and causes you to relax and to be more calm you listen to my mind you just feel the natural rhythm of your brain and you are entering a calm natural state of focused awareness you're entering this meditation you've been relaxed like this many times and you feel more and as you breathe in and out you notice that your body is softening the muscles in your face just relax all the muscles in your forehead smooth all the little muscles around your eyes feel soft and gentle your jaw your cheeks your neck just relax and let go

Starting point is 00:07:47 a little more with each breath. That's it. I'm going to count down from 10 to 1 with each number. You allow yourself to drift even deeper, deeper into calm, deeper into comfort, deeper into the real. Be just for fun. Imagine yourself walking down a gentle staircase. With each number, each step, feeling more calm, more grounded and more at ease.

Starting point is 00:08:49 Stepping down, feeling safe. With each breath and step down, drifting more deeply inward. Letting the outside world soften and fade. 7. Feeling lighter or heavier or just different. like sinking into warm water, peaceful and supported, halfway down now, and it's okay to relax even more, noticing the space between thoughts, growing wider and quieter. Three, so easy to follow the sound of my voice and go even deeper.

Starting point is 00:09:54 Almost all funny there in that quiet, peaceful place inside. In your mind's eye as you walk off the staircase, off the final step, you can begin to imagine walking into a place that feels safe, comforting and restful. Perhaps it's an open meadow or maybe a forest path. or a quiet beach at sunset, or maybe it's a cozy room with soft light and wall. It could be a place you've been before or somewhere entirely new, and this place is just for you, and it's just whatever place your subconscious mind brings forth. You can feel the nature, you can hear the gentle sounds around you.

Starting point is 00:11:27 The distant breeze, through trees, sound of waves. Or simply silence, the kind that wraps around you like a soft blanket. You feel so relaxed, you feel so free. Free from time, free from pressures, free to simply rest. And your body heals, belts away. and the stress flows away with it. If you want to, you can explore this place, perhaps walking slowly. Or you can just sit comfortably and take it in.

Starting point is 00:12:45 Notice how your body responds. You feel so good. You feel so relaxed. The deepens. Your body slows and your body heals. This is your time. just for you. There's no rush here, no urgency,

Starting point is 00:13:33 just the sweet, gentle descent into a deeper kind of peace. But you may not even remember feeling a long long time. Maybe it feels just like coming home, because that while this place is, a home inside yourself. A special and safe place. A place you can return to any time and every time you come here or listen to this meditation. It gets easier, more familiar, more powerful and you can return here at any part of this meditation.

Starting point is 00:14:33 Rest in this place now. Notice how everything unnecessary is already being done. beginning to melt away, drifting out of your mind and body out of your awareness. And it feels worried too much. The body is more relaxed and your breath is flowing naturally. You can begin to turn your awareness inward. Let your imagination gently bring up an image. You can imagine yourself walking in this special place or somewhere else and there's a weight on your back, gentle step forward. You notice it's a little bit more.

Starting point is 00:16:22 It's a backpack. You've been carrying it for so long. Then maybe you forgot. It was even there. But today, you're aware of it again. And as you notice it, you become aware of it. of what's inside. It's filled with stress. It's filled with deadlines, old worries and fears that don't belong to you anymore. It has conversations that replay in your mind, tensions you've absorbed from others, expectations, pressures, plans and noise, collected over time, and maybe you've absorbed from others. Expectations, pressures, plans and noise, collected over time. And maybe you've absorbed from others. Expectations, pressures, pressures, plans and noise,

Starting point is 00:17:24 collected over time and maybe you didn't even mean to carry it or maybe you've picked it up without realising it might have felt necessary back then but right now you don't need to carry it anymore so gently take a deep breath in and as you exhale that

Starting point is 00:18:01 slowly reach back and clip the straps and feel that backpack slide off your shoulders down to the ground notice how much lighter you feel how your spine lengthens how your chest opens until your breath flows more freely and you don't even need to open the backpack you don't have to relive or examine anything inside you can just leave it there because you realize this backpack was never part of you. This stress was caused externally.

Starting point is 00:19:16 You can leave stress, you can take it from your body and you can just leave it behind. You weren't born. You just picked it up along the way. Now you're ready just to leave it behind. Earth knows here. you're ready to release. This stress is going to be broken down, recycled and turned into something you might even imagine the ground where you've placed the backpack, opening gently, and that old stress sinking into the soil where it can be transformed without that.

Starting point is 00:20:28 you needing to hold on to it anymore and breathe in lightness out to the release of all that weight. Tension going or pressure going and you are not the tension and you are not the pressure. You can begin to walk again. But this time each step feels freer, lighter and you feel like yourself. You feel your shoulders opening up, the release in your neck, the openness in your chest, and each breath, each moment is more your own. You continue down the path and you notice what's around you. The light moves through the trees, or how the breeze gently moves the leaves.

Starting point is 00:21:58 Or the sounds of birds, water and life. The world is so still here and it's so calm and you've let go of all stress and graced peace and if you'd like to you can sit and rest when you want

Starting point is 00:22:31 and just enjoy the space how you want to for a little bit now as you continue to walk along that peaceful path you notice how different everything feels not because the world has changed

Starting point is 00:23:35 but because you have there's more space inside you now more room to breathe to think clearly and to respond rather than react and you can take this feeling with you this peace

Starting point is 00:23:57 it doesn't live in this meditation it doesn't live in the forest this peace is not the sound of This peace lives lives in you. It's something you can carry, not like a burden, but a quiet strength in your centre. You can imagine a time in the near future, a time where you might get stress, it's all overwhelmed. But this time you notice how your body feels different. You notice that you're breathing and steadier. How your shoulders stay relaxed.

Starting point is 00:25:04 You breathe in through the stomach. How you don't mouth breathe and breathe through you. Because the stress doesn't control you now if you get stressful feelings. You notice it. You pause and acknowledge the feeling and then you breathe deeply. You choose to be calm. You choose to react in the right way and in that moment you remember

Starting point is 00:25:45 you've already let go of the weight once and you know how to do it again you realize that holding onto stress does not serve you and every time you can return to this place within yourself it becomes easier more familiar and more automatic When you listen to this meditation is your reset button.

Starting point is 00:26:29 And your reset button is your breath. Anytime and anywhere. You can sleep in deep relaxation and healing. Where you're calm. Where you're serene.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Guided Sleep Meditation for Stress - Bonus Episode for International Stress Awareness Week

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