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

Episode Date: January 8, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:46 please go to sleepcove.com slash support. That's sleepcove.com slash support. If you can't support the show right now, please subscribe with the bell to get alerts on all new free content thank you have you ever gazed in wonder at the great pyramid have you marvelled at the golden face of Tudankhamun
Starting point is 00:01:16 or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti if you have you'll probably like the History of Egypt podcast every week we explore tales of this ancient culture The history of Egypt is available wherever you get your podcasting fix. Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. And welcome to Sleep Cove with me, Christopher Fitten, the place to come for a great night's sleep. This episode is designed to help you if you have an overactive mind
Starting point is 00:02:02 and are kept awake by it. It should also help you in your life. day to day life. We have all been there up at night overthinking keeping us awake. This episode is designed to help clear your mind and give you a peaceful night's sleep. Please listen to this recording where you can safely go to sleep. Begin. Start by getting comfortable and make sure you won't be done. and move around just to get as comfortable as you can. Close your eyes if you haven't already.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Thereness inside to your mind's eye and body. Filling yourself with relaxing calm to take three deep breath. Five seconds, holding for three and then just letting go on the exhale. Count with you. I want you to take some more deep breaths. As you follow my voice, you want to cleanse yourself and purify yourself of all stress
Starting point is 00:04:28 and all things that no longer serve you. Tension or hardships from today are leaving you with each deep breath. Any resistance or discomfort can be natural. But you can feel, feel through it, something today, which cause you stress and concern, maybe something counterproductive that is causing you to overthink, and you realise that you can focus on your body
Starting point is 00:05:18 and how it reacted when you felt this discomfort. You will soon realise that there is absolutely no need to overthink these thoughts. Your body reacted with stress, instead with calm. Exercise tonight will help you become full of calm and clear all the stress. You can take these thoughts and completely breathe through them and forget about them tonight. They don't serve you any as you breathe in and you release the tension you have in your body. body, thoughts and feelings you have, and you relax into your body and disappear as you simply breathe in your awareness inside of your body. You feel relaxing running through you and you
Starting point is 00:06:45 say thank you to your body as you begin to relax more. Your body provides you with life and we're going to be focusing on it, deep breathing, you are relaxing your entire body, begins to clear stress, feel purified and cleansed, and anything that no longer serves you will be cleared. As you breathe in and out, you feel relaxation flow from the top of your head, down into the tips of your toes. concentrate on the tip of your head as you feel a relaxation feeling, flow down into your head, into the muscles of your forehead, any tightness of the little muscles, they release
Starting point is 00:08:13 completely relaxation feeling, flows down and removes any tightness in your eyes, all the little muscles around them are gently closed, not scrunch. It feels like your eyelids are just floating on your eyes as all the muscles. Lexation feeling. Your cheeks in your jaw, thickness in your jaw just relaxes. If you want to open your jaw slightly, you can do that, but you don't have to do that. It's up to you. L relaxation feeling. Lackation feeling flow into your neck and any tension in your neck disappears. You relax those neck means getting more comfortable you can do. You can do this as you relax the neck. Releasing all tension as the feeling flows down into your shoulders. It feels like you are getting
Starting point is 00:10:22 a nice massage and any knots. in your shoulders, just relax and your shoulders drop. You can feel more muscles need tense as this relaxation feeling flows into your chest, into your stomach, and your stomach relax. And your stomach slowly rises and fall
Starting point is 00:11:08 because breathing through the stomach most efficient way to breathe. You want to make sure that you breathe through your stomach. stomach. Your upper chest is as still as possible. You can even put one hand on your stomach and one hand on your upper chest and see which is moving most. There are deep, relaxes all your feel so good lying in the bed. It feels relax and let go relaxation feeling. Then flows to the top of each arm and it moves down your arm.
Starting point is 00:12:56 Through your biceps, triceps, lower forearms, and into the tips of each relaxation feeling flows from your shoulder. To the tips of your fingers, relaxation feeling now, shoulders, to the tops of your hips, relaxing all the muscles, joints and tendons here. Top of your thighs, being and flowing, to the tips of your toes. relaxation feeling as now entire body. You can feel it from the top of your head. When you feel this relaxation feeling? Flow through your body. You've relaxed your entire body.
Starting point is 00:14:56 It's a wonderful feeling as the bed just supports you. Just supports you in the few places it's supposed to. Take your time to enjoy this. As you breathe in, move this relaxation feeling deeper inside your body. Feeling the relaxation feeling running through you.
Starting point is 00:15:58 It runs through your heart through violently working its relaxation magic. You might feel more deeply relaxed than you've ever felt before. You can say thank you. you to your body. It's your physical vessel, which provides you with life the present inside your body from the thoughts you may have in your headspace. Having some overactive thoughts,
Starting point is 00:17:07 or some over thinking, or some stress or consume. It might have been caused a day or another day. Maybe something happened which was counterproductive. Whatever thoughts you've had reacted with stress and overthinking and realise that you can choose for relaxation when thinking of negative thoughts. When you have become worked up, it's okay. It's completely natural. You don't need to force anything.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Just simply breathe into this space and take a deep breath into your thoughts and feeling. Feeling all tension leave your awareness and you have acceptance. And as you bring your awareness and headspace, picture your thoughts as clouds in the clear blue sky. See them clearly now. Top of the cloud clouds are pure white. And the sky is a beautiful blue.
Starting point is 00:19:04 So come here to be present inside this scene. You don't have to deny your thought, you don't have to repress them, you can simply let them be any negative thoughts or upset feelings. It's just okay, just allow them to come in, need dancing, to your physical body. As it repairs and regenerates stress and overthinking is not something you're going to burden your body with. you want to thank your body for providing you with life awareness of your thoughts gently bounce and dance
Starting point is 00:20:37 and thoughts above and every cell inside your body is working at full efficiency to let you rest and relax and keep your awareness on your thoughts on the clouds gently bouncing and dancing Now picture a stream
Starting point is 00:21:09 travelling up from your body to the scene inside your head you feel the white loving light move up into your face and then into your head and you see it spill out slowly into the scene you're visualising you see the light
Starting point is 00:21:49 come through the sky watch it stream through onto your thoughts that are gently bouncing on the clouds. With this for a moment, do you just watch? You have accepted these thoughts, then clears them. These thoughts will not rule you anymore.
Starting point is 00:22:27 Your heart and body is sending loving and healing energy into your thoughts and mind. You can physically see the pure, white heating light radiate into your mind and thoughts. Your thoughts are becoming filled with this light. They are accepted, you know this, but your mind will be still. You are at peace and you keep visionising the light,
Starting point is 00:23:05 streaming down inside your mind. Watch it spill out onto the scene. and see these thoughts becoming more immersed in light and you can feel all the physical sensations of relaxation. Are you feeling more relaxed? Does your body feel less? Can you notice the stress leaving yourselves with eating? It's okay.
Starting point is 00:24:07 It's happening right now. Your body and mind is going through a process of deep healing. tension and stress and concern is just floating away you are going through a process of deep healing with all tension stress and concern just floating away within your heart is both as purified your thoughts purified your mind and purified your heart an invisible clear the shield is in the shape of the circle or sphere and you see it in your mind. Keep a visual in your mind. It's your protection and your creations with the shield. You see it. What does it remind you of? The protection you have? A magical invisibility cloak? Something else. Mystical and amazing.
Starting point is 00:26:34 Whatever it reminds you of. stay focused on the feeling and see subtle vibrations emanating around you see a clear space filling up this protective shield time is only nothing exists outside of this time reminds you of the power of your thoughts right now you don't wish to think negative or whole thoughtful thoughts, while this shield is up. This space or positivity, there is no room for anything else. You see this, you feel this. The subtle, clear, transparent energy surrounding you. You see the invisible particles and atoms bouncing around.
Starting point is 00:28:16 That this space is your time shield. is own. No harm can come to you. You are safe, protected and at one with the world. You can take this protection wherever you go in your life. Negative thoughts cannot penetrate the shield. You've already seen it, used it. You are also at one with your thoughts and mind. Your mind is here to serve you. To protect you, there is nothing dark or deniable about your mind. Processes, you bring your awareness to your thoughts. Do you feel? Can you see your thoughts in your mind's eye? Do they feel lighter, more carefree and positive, see your thoughts? They are clear, yes?
Starting point is 00:29:56 The shield has cleansed them Your energy has cleaned them Your mind is clear now Know it can see this to be true How there is no room For stresses, worries and concerns Which once brought you down Time as only now
Starting point is 00:30:26 You are protected You are safe and clear-sighted, taking some deep breaths and you picture your thoughts again, bouncing gently on the clouds, how do they feel? And you see the shift in energy. You are now in a deep place. If you overthink or have worries or concerns, you can come back to this place and realize your special shield is here to protect you. Conscious. or subconscious world. All negative thoughts are filled with this space now.
Starting point is 00:31:38 They are charged with light. Remind yourself at this deeply relaxed state can be achieved at any moment. It brings you struggle or stress. Your invisible shield is always around. It's protecting you. Mind and body. It's always available and reasonable
Starting point is 00:32:13 and ready to send loving vibrations to your thoughts. How to do it. Stay content and calm within this knowledge for yourselves to activate this wisdom within. Charging you up with calmness of mind, you can now take with you wherever you go, that this is an inner place reached by your mind, An enhanced state of relaxation and awareness can help you become more mindful
Starting point is 00:33:12 and bring your awareness back to the present. If you're ever stressed or overcome by anxiety or fear, bring your awareness back to a special relaxed place. Connect to the clear blue sky and your heart's gentle but powerful healing rays as you watch your thoughts gently bounce over the clouds again
Starting point is 00:33:47 see the protective aura or invisible shield around you is own the present and in this space there is no room for detrimental or stressful thoughts
Starting point is 00:34:10 remember how safe protected and connected you are to your mind your brain has now been rewired and you can access these states whenever you need to you think of the scene again with the clouds on the blue sky
Starting point is 00:34:33 holding your thoughts and a gentle wind has now blown a beautiful sky is at sunset is getting orange think of the scene again with the clouds in the sky It's at sunset.
Starting point is 00:35:15 It is getting more orange. You can see the moon slowly beginning to appear. Soon darkness appears. And there are stars in the sky in this light as blank. And you just enjoy the beauty. As your body is completely relaxed and you can let go. Because you have conquered overthinking.

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