Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Sleep Hypnosis To Clear Anxiety and Depressive Thoughts

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to Sleep Cove. Please listen to this recording in a place where you can safely go to sleep and the content of this recording does not replace any medical advice. Hello and welcome to this recording where we'll be doing a hypnosis episode to reduce anxiety and depressive thoughts. Hypnosis is a therapeutic. exercise, where you'll sit back, listen to me as I guide you and put you into a hypnotic trance, and then give you suggestions which will help you with your everyday life and help reduce

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Starting point is 00:02:14 And let's begin. I'd like you to close your eyes and become comfortable where you are right now. You can take a minute to do that and feel as comfortable as you can in the best. knowing that healing has already begun to happen just by deciding to be here and to do this here today in this place. So begin here with my voice and take a deep breath in and try to do a deep breath in through your stomach. using your stomach area to expand your lungs.

Starting point is 00:03:08 We want to be ensuring that we are breathing through our stomach area and not our upper chest area. Because we want to do deep relaxing breathing. So just focus on your breathing now. Yes, that's right, not forcing it, but just follow your own breath as it flows in and out at your own easy natural pace and you can do this and you can let go allowing yourself to drift comfortably back into the state you know so well where daydreaming is easy and here today it is easier still for I shall provide the dream

Starting point is 00:04:16 this daydream with all these words and guide you to the place of replenishment a younger state so join me today breathing more deeply now and realising remembering that simply focusing on your breathing

Starting point is 00:04:45 naturally brings out its own cloak of calm its own seat of rest and recuperation becoming more peaceful now more easily available to sink into these words With each breath, the voice and bustle of any outside noise becomes distant, temporarily unimportant and far away and hearing my voice in these words gives you growing comfort as you relax and let go

Starting point is 00:05:31 and please listen to the words I have to say as you have come so far and yes there have been many difficulties sometimes so many that you have felt that you maybe could not go on very well in your current situation but you did not give up and you did not give in you carried on and because of all of this you are here now You've come to the point and the place and the time where healing can manifest throughout you

Starting point is 00:06:19 naturally and easily and now in order to get into this relaxed state where we go and deeply transform ourselves through a hypnotic trance where it can be spun much like the spinning of an old-fashioned loom that someone's great-great-grandmother might have used day after day

Starting point is 00:06:51 whatever the weather come rain or shine and for the good of all and so just like that and with as much purpose as we can now here's been a beautiful and wonderful soothing healing hypnotic state naturally a state of mind into which you already feel yourself falling into now and just to test whether this is now happening you are now slipping back into that easy state

Starting point is 00:07:39 where you are about to hear me say something surprising to you and that surprising thing is this and it's something that very few people know or realise and that is that both anxiety and depression are both hypnotic states in themselves and so if you just happen to be here because of either anxiety or depression and you are are you not then the hypnotic state in which you find yourself presently needs merely to be altered to be changed to be transformed and your willingness

Starting point is 00:08:28 your desire for release, complete peace of mind, and all those wonderful things that are about to become integral into your daily experience is quite sufficient to do that. Is exactly what is needed to make this change. This transformation, and that's hugely relieving to hear.

Starting point is 00:08:58 isn't it? That's your very desire. Your very being here. Now, it is the key to your release. And so knowing this, you can allow yourself to go further within, further within yourself today.

Starting point is 00:09:25 That when you return to the everyday world, you will have consigned these unhelpful states of mind to the past for good and the one thing about the past which nobody can deny is that we can never return there again which again is truly comforting isn't it that's right

Starting point is 00:10:00 and so in this way we are about to dismantle the old troublesome and thought patterns during this present session. And we shall do this on three different levels of the body, in the body, soul, and in the mind. You can start again, untroubled by the old ways, ready just to be as you can be, as you are about to be.

Starting point is 00:10:39 just you in a naturally carefree, happily contented state capable of living in the present without fear or dread or any of those useless encumbrances which you've been carrying along with you for so long for too long those burdens are soon to be put down put away and you will be replenished.

Starting point is 00:11:15 Those negative thought patterns are about to be stopped in their tracks to be abandoned like a useless old pair of worn out shoes that hurt the feet rather than protect them. You're going to be getting rid of them for good allowing you to simply, easily and comfortably, walk back to a natural ease, a state of natural ease and release now. I'll be quiet for a moment or two, just so that you contemplate just how truly wonderful all of this is already becoming for you and since my voice will lead you there

Starting point is 00:12:44 there is nothing at all for you to do right now but just being here is all that you need that you need to accomplish and so merely following these words imagining what these words are ask yourself to imagine and experience all that these words ask you to experience. Following these words faithfully is such an easy thing to do and so as described an easy, effortless passage from troublesome, disquiet

Starting point is 00:13:29 to a simple, blissful inner peace is already being brought about you because you are, are you not already still following these words now? Even simpler than merely following these words. Just listening because you don't really even need to comprehend as your unconscious is attentive now. It's listening now and carrying out all that necessary change for you, allowing you to merely follow my voice,

Starting point is 00:14:14 like holding onto and following the length of a rope that now leads you deeper into this space and comfortable and truly move into this transformative place. So let us go now, even deeper. Then in an order that we can do this simply and directly, I'll ask you now to close the eyes of the mind, which are slightly different from your physical eyes, in that whilst you only have two physical eyes,

Starting point is 00:14:57 and you almost invariably close them both at the same time, your mind has several eyes, just like your mind has several voices, and these can be quietened down one by one. And as they do, as they are now doing, you already feel yourself becoming more centered, more relaxed, quieter inside, peaceful, deeply peaceful. and your ability to focus on these words are sharpened for getting all ours, drifting, turning off mental switches and quietening down within. You are journeying towards that completely calm centre within you. And now you begin to realise that you never need to spend any effort in making. your return here because this calm centre is your calm centre, the centre of yourself that exists so peacefully deep within you as your own personal well spring of calm and quiet

Starting point is 00:16:17 self-assurance as to the rightness of all things, which of course includes your own existence, you are becoming a centered area of calm. Now, all of your muscles are loosening and becoming jelly-like in the comfort and safety of this here and now and this central spot in your universe that only you can occupy. Loosening, untying, distressing at a deep and yet level still, all outside pressures diminishing, vanishing, and as they do so, allowing a long-lost feeling of deeper pleasure to re-awaken within you, which brings you not only to feel, but also therefore to understand and fully accept that neither anxiety nor depression are things solely of the mind,

Starting point is 00:17:28 for they also manifest themselves within our physical time frame. But now, because you are doing this, your many burdens are no longer needed. So allowing these heavy, useless garments of stress to slip off forever, you can actually feel the weight of these old burdens lifting from you now, leaving you more able to easily go further inwards, where you are about to accomplish a long-held dream of complete release.

Starting point is 00:18:09 Breathing deeply now and your own natural pace. Comfortably now. Listening, focusing, accepting. descending into that private, personal space, where you are now safely at home in yourself. And now, if you would please, I'd like you to imagine being in your very favourite place, a place where you feel safe and secure, untroubled and well, happy and confident that nothing can do you anyhow. knowing there is no hurry to leave, a place of your own with no distractions or pressures or worries,

Starting point is 00:19:02 a place of complete calm in which you can simply enjoy being yourself. See that place now and be in that place now and feel the wonderful, amazing feeling of being, feeling of being here. And here in this heavenly place, you notice something that you have never noticed here before. An entrance way of some description. I don't know what it looks like, as I can't see this, but you can. It's an intriguing entrance way, an opening, a way further in. inviting, appealing, welcoming and so you enter. You cross the threshold and it feels so good to do this. And there you find an orange coloured sandstone spiral staircase leading gently downwards.

Starting point is 00:20:18 You feel great promise of what is about to come. You know this is good, so you take a step down the spiral staircase, and that feels so good, knowing that you are going to the right place. And so you take another step downwards, and another as you descend further down the spiral staircase, and you feel relaxed as you do so, and you begin to feel something beginning to show. shift inside of you. Inner healing is already beginning to manifest. Manifest within you so you gladly take more steps downwards all the while feeling better and better beginning to feel that flicker of excitement lighting up within you, gluing within you, growing within you as you slowly realize that you are going towards your own core, the place where things can change for the better. Ever downwards, ever inwards, following the gentle curve of the stairwell,

Starting point is 00:21:45 approaching wholeness and inner health, ever downwards, and ever inwards. And now at the bottom of the steps, you find yourself in your own personal palace of peace, where you know you are certain that you are completely safe and that because of this, you can make those changes and achieve that deeply felt self-acceptance for which you have longed for so long. here in this personal inner space, you feel already the familiar feelings of having put down that heavy burden, having taken off those two tight shoes, having removed all the masks of anxiety, leaving you pure, making you feel. and troubled, being totally relaxed, a new feeling of serenity in its place,

Starting point is 00:23:12 your own face of clarity and serenity so long forgotten. But now as fresh and new as the daybreak, with just as much promise. It's so good, that's right. Letting go, completely now and going inwards, now and descending, now into a deeper and more assured place, a delightful feeling of peace in both the body and the mind. As you do now, I'll like you to notice that this delightful feeling has a certain colour to it. And once you see this colour, you see this colour clearly in that place within you that is most relaxed, most relaxed of all.

Starting point is 00:24:18 And you see now that this colour is expanding, filling all of you with a deeply, deeply dreamlike comfort of ease and personal place. pleasure, a feeling of utter delight. Yes, you see that deeply now for a few moments, whilst I will remain quiet. As you now become completely absorbed by that colour, you notice a deeper stillness within. A profound peace, a stillness that pervades the whole of you. inside and out. This piece allows you to notice now your own deep well of inner resources, inspiration and intuitive ability

Starting point is 00:25:52 to solve problems naturally and spontaneously. A personal resource you had forgotten about for so long but it is so welcoming now for you intriguing you you recognise your own ability and power to permanently heal all of those past

Starting point is 00:26:23 inner hurts and upsets and simply allowing them to dissolve away no longer needed a natural method known only to your own subconscious allowing it to work in its own healing magic just by your mere presence in its light

Starting point is 00:26:49 and just be with this for a moment and you sense that great love is present here a deep love a central love a unifying and nurturing love A healing love, existing naturally and rightfully within you and around you. Growing, flowing, deeply healing, becoming so powerful you feel at awe in this place. And as this presence of total love grows, stronger within you, it brings with it deep understanding,

Starting point is 00:27:53 casting of illumination all around and dispelling all remaining darkness. And you find now in the light of this love the awakening of a deeper understanding of the human condition. And with that naturally an innate ability and the capacity for healing forgiveness, for full forgiveness for any and all past hurts and grievances you've suffered in this life as of all these old tensions and grievances disappear easily

Starting point is 00:28:34 and effortlessly in your heart now because you can see and now that you can understand you are no longer needing any of these negative thoughts whatsoever you don't need to bring them a single step further

Starting point is 00:28:57 you can put them down that's right and the relief you feel is so wonderful and in forgiving all in abandoning all judgment and negative feelings towards others a new realisation awakens

Starting point is 00:29:17 and you see yourself clearly now, so very clearly now, that you can rightfully feel full forgiveness for yourself, full forgiveness for your own past actions, which in its turn as this has accepted, as you accept yourself now. effortlessly it dissolves all feelings of guilt bringing an end to all forms of punishment and with that a feeling of deep relief and release just as if you were opening the windows in the basement of your mind and letting the cool welcoming breeze

Starting point is 00:30:04 of the present blow out those phantoms of the past and seeing any remaining remnants of these old visions and thoughts diminishes, dissolves, disintegrates and now that these negative energies are gone there is the space and potential and the vital energy to allow regeneration and regrowth and a return to pure and unadulterated simplicity of mind and being. And additionally, because of all of this, as a direct result of all of this,

Starting point is 00:30:51 you can cool down any remaining negative thoughts, such as anger, and letting the heat of unproductive anger be utilised by more positive. and productive paths. And I shall be quiet for a moment again, as all of this is absorbed and accepted deeply into your heart. A new beginning is yours. That's right, wonderful, going deeper to a place where you can temporarily sweep recent memories away from the current view,

Starting point is 00:31:52 returning to memory and remembering peace, a deep deep peace and you feel that peace now and it sinks into its depths and wonderful truly absorbing ocean of deep peace now you can be here because this is where you are you feel at your centre opening where you can and you go deeper within

Starting point is 00:32:31 where more profound and more permanent change can take place and take root good you're doing so well in this place within you you're doing so well cushioned by confidence

Starting point is 00:32:49 permeated with a glorious glow of gladness at simply being you and this inner place has a certain feeling to it a feeling that you can feel clearly now and I would like you to focus on that feeling amplifying it and allow this to become ingrained in your memory

Starting point is 00:33:14 installed in every cell of your body to be felt at any time that you need it so feel this now a feeling of a certain self-awareness, a balance, a presence, an inner equilibrium, a new knowledge, a new learning about how to return to presence at will. A deep certainty that this presence, by its very nature, is always to hand, unshakable, rooted in sturdy assuredness, for presence in a sense. is simple, that now and forever remembering the presence is the perfect place to permanently be here,

Starting point is 00:34:09 safe from any regrets of the past and any and all unfounded fears for the future, knowing that you can cope comfortably with whatever arises, and I should be quiet again for a moment. as this wonderful, natural, rightful feeling fills each and every cell in your being as each and every cell accepts this new learning I remembers it at a cellular level reveling in gloriousness

Starting point is 00:34:47 and keeping those close for all of time. New patterns of thought attitude take as these new learnings, these more helpful strategies take deeper root within your subconscious to be fully accepted and further nurtured and nourished by your subconscious, as these things are all happening now, the old order, the old attitudes, the destructive patterns of thoughts are irrelevant now, no longer needed and consigned to the what was, and being absolute. replaced with what is your new, newfound, peaceful centre.

Starting point is 00:35:50 Clearing up, shutting down those old and helpful chattering inner conversations of angst, draining the wells of shame and guilt, and stopping all negative internal mental chatter, dampening down the smouldering fires of old. useless anger completely and replacing those old and helpful patterns and strategies with sensible strategies more appropriate and with productive patterns producing a much more stable mental environment a quieter mind able now to create new approaches better suited to this peaceful outlook, your new being, starting in you and afresh, buoyant, calm, assured, and content in your being throughout, from inner centre to outer skin and further outwards

Starting point is 00:37:01 to the stars themselves. And now you can see and now you can accept. and you are now seeing and you are now accepting the natural order of this universe. Understanding deeply that all things have their natural cycle, their birth, their development and their eventual dissolution. Eventually and naturally breaking up into their constituent parts to be used again in their eventual dissolution. new forms, phenomena coming and going without effort, appearing and disappearing according to their nature in whole harmony, a symphony, complete and perfect in itself, knowing no lack or overproduction,

Starting point is 00:38:03 fitting properly and just right. Accepting now, in this way that all things must pass, and that accordingly all things must be let go of at their proper time, and seeing this deeply, gaining the full understanding of this, and therefore, through this understanding and acceptance, you have the ability to allow all things that have come to their natural end to be released without regret, without issue and without remorse.

Starting point is 00:38:49 And in this way, and because of the good work you have done today, you can now from your safe vantage point of perfect peaceful presence, watch and listen as your old anxieties. The loops of them come out of the past and come apart at the seams and disintegrate in front of you. And as each thought loop falls apart and loses its power, you feel a great gladness growing within. Knowing now that time is over. That time of negativity is over. And a period of new growth, of new thought patterns, more sensible, helpful and engaging, profitable,

Starting point is 00:39:45 fertile, joyous and beneficial thoughts, take their place, growing out, sprouting from their very own deep and wonderful, powerful inner resources. That's right, it's so good, and a new ability is arising and immediately strengthening within, and this new ability is the ability to easily and confidently and firmly, say yes. When you want to say yes, the ability to calmly, clearly and confidently state your position and your preference, and just as importantly, you gain the ability to also say no to any requests on your time or your attention that you feel unreasonable, or at any time you feel you are being unfairly pressured by another and now you can lock these new abilities in permanently

Starting point is 00:40:53 that's right lock these in now at a fundamental level. Now fully allowing your subconscious to work in its own way to see the truth of all of these things weaving all these ideas and suggestions intricately, intimately, into the very fabric of your being, your understanding and further developing these new attitudes and helpfully affective frames of mind. And since your subconscious occupies many dimensions,

Starting point is 00:41:37 you can work on several levels simultaneously. You can whilst this is taking place. Also allow all of this new learning to find its permanent place within, guiding both your thought processes and your responses. And quiet now for a moment. And bringing all of this together, you notice something else new, within you. Because of all of this as a direct result of all of,

Starting point is 00:42:28 of this, there is a calm and quiet sense of solid optimism that has taken root within you, filling out the basement of your mind, giving no room for those old senseless patterns to return. A new hope, a quiet confidence, that a centered presence is within you. Your entire being is characterized to its very call by a self-assured gladness at simply being and simply being you. An inner resource, permanently in action, bringing joy and delight to all those you meet. Seeing the best in everyone. seeing the promise and the worth of each and every situation. Seeing and accepting challenges, the challenges that are expected in life.

Starting point is 00:43:36 Knowing that it is these that make life worth living. Taking all of these things and more in your stride, as they arise and you overcome them before going on to the next. Confidently, quietly, assuredly, sensibly, effectively, effectively. All as well, all as well, all as well, all as well, as well as all of this is descriptive of your new understanding of yourself. It is also now associated with your own name And whenever you hear your name

Starting point is 00:44:26 Being called or you see your own name in print Or even think of your own name You'll feel a smile of deep self-assurance From the core to your skin From skin to call And bringing with it certainty That all as well just because you are present.

Starting point is 00:44:51 And now you have carried out all the necessary change. You can dress your subconscious to accept and permanently put into place all the suggestions introduced today. In a moment I'm going to count to three. And when you hear the number three, you can fall into a gentle and peaceful sleep and enter that natural sleep cycle.

Starting point is 00:45:17 and when you are awake at the time of your choosing, you feel fresh, confident, optimistic and so very happy just to be alive and to be you. And if you're needed in any way, you can wake up at any point, two, three.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Sleep Hypnosis To Clear Anxiety and Depressive Thoughts

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