Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Sleep Meditation - Explore Zion National Park

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Starting point is 00:04:51 Let's begin as you relax in a place where you can safely meditate and go to sleep. this may be your bed or it may be a chair but try and get as comfortable as possible even take a stretch and soothe all the muscles of your body soothe them so well before you try into deep relaxation and sleep get into the most comfortable place you can because when you are comfortable, you can sleep better, sleep better.

Starting point is 00:05:53 The next day is so invigorating and so good as you are fully recharged. Looking forward to the day hours you rest in your bed, take a big, big stretch again and make sure and sink into the bed. But the breathing has happened in your stomach area. If your shoulders are moving up and down rapidly, want to try and slow our breathing down, concentrate on the stomach, gently pushing out as we take a deep breath in and gently relaxing out. As we take a deep breath out, first step as we go to sleep helps us to relax and deep breathing makes our oxygen. circulate in our bloodstream so much more efficiently and so much better. Deep breathing is so perfect for your body.

Starting point is 00:08:17 It reduces the stress hormones you may be producing your body. With each breath you can just feel more and more. It's wonderful. This time is just for you. We're going to be going to Zion, Zion National Park, in Utah. You may have been before, you may have never been, or you might have never even

Starting point is 00:09:09 seen pictures of it. But it doesn't matter because you're going there now in your mind's eye and you look down on the valley and the canyon below you. Horse of Zion are steeped with red tinted rocks and steep walls and the valley has dotted green vegetation and the odd stream running through. Unless you've been to this part of the world, you might never have seen a reddish tinted landscape like this before. which look like they could be from Mars mixed in with green vegetation down on the valley floor and it's been a lovely beautiful day and you look up your vantage point and you see the bright beautiful blue sky it's late afternoon now and you can see a few dotted white white clouds. It's a perfect temperature. It could be early summer where it's not too cold or not

Starting point is 00:11:08 too warm, but you're just nice for exploring. You soon realise where you're standing. You're standing angels landing. You climbed a trail up here, going step after step from the valley floor, where thousands of people have stepped before you. You took a few rests going up and he saw birds and birds of prey peacefully flying through the air as you had walked up it. You walked through every step

Starting point is 00:12:35 which had been carved into the rock until you reached the top to see a spectacular view the surroundings below you. It really is a beautiful sight beautiful vegetation, the reddish, which just seem to go on and on from. It's so stunning. And it's so beautiful. And you could just look out forever and ever. But there's so many things I'd like to explore. You've made your way down the trail. And you can hear the birds chattering and singing as you start walking. You see a sign. But it truly is a beautiful valley. And you take a little. And you take a lot of the sun. And you take a little bit. left turn through the trail to a circular clearing which is carved into the rock. The bottom of this clearing is a deep emerald coloured pool, medium-sized waterfall gently empty their contents into the pool.

Starting point is 00:15:30 You're above on the trail looking down as you walk round your elevated position looking down at the Emerald Pool meters ahead of you and above you the rock actually overhangs most of the walkway. So you actually feel like you are part of the landscape, which has been here for thousands upon thousands of years. That waterfall was once new and there was no clearing this water and water into this big circular outcrop which people admire to this day. You see a rock and you sit down and you find some peace as you look at the waterfall with this constant relaxing sound and the sun gently hits them warming small rainbows behind them. It's so wonderful being here and so peaceful. It's like you've found a secret just for yourself and as you sit here behind your surroundings. It's so perfect you want to go and explore the canyon some more, bring its beauty.

Starting point is 00:19:07 You could be on another planet hundreds of years. That the indigenous people of this area explored and made their home explore some more. You see a sign for the narrow and you're feeling a little warm now and you know the narrow because as you approach long streamed blue water, which you can walk in up to your car and you step in, walking, and it feels nice and cool. Water to splash against your legs and it is called the narrows because this water has carved out a path for itself

Starting point is 00:21:04 into the high rocks, but it's not formed a large valley like the one you've just been in but it has caused carving of the rock and as you look up you see very tall, steeped on each side of the narrow little streams and trickles and small waterfalls come over the rock edges from up above and there's vegetation on the sides of the banks of the stream Birds and even, some squirrels, chattering the stream. You sometimes touch aside, lock walls and let the water trickle through your hands. As because a waterfall has started at the top, spreads to its descent, point where you can put your hand on the wall. It's trickle into the stream you are standing it.

Starting point is 00:23:28 It's so peaceful here. time is just for you to explore adventure in your own way because you know you can come back to Zion one zoo in your mind's eye. You might even visit in person one day. You see a bank on the side of the stream with the log which fell down a few years ago. He sit on the lark and eunoke and the stream passing by nature around you. Ancient majesty of this place and think of all the the other people who explored this through hundreds and hundreds of years. I realize this place is hardly altered at all since humans first discovered it and you feel connected in nature.

Starting point is 00:25:55 Our ancient ancestors, as we know we are just on a journey ourselves, passing through time like a stream, helps through a rock. and surely nature in front of you. You imagine yourself at the top of the valley right on its edge. And you can see the beauty of nature below you. Behind you, you see plains of trees and red Mars-like landscape spread out. out, go back to looking at the huge condors. It makes you so happy to see to see these birds of extinction that have been brought because men and women together and be peaceful.

Starting point is 00:28:31 For a common aim of bringing back a species which nearly went extinct. This makes you so happy to see the birds which existed. Even discovered this found this vanish. to his natural habitat. You notice the right side of you. The sun slowly begins to set and starting before night rolls in. When you want to see Zion go into nighttime, him into the camp bed and the covers over you, put your headily as it slowly gets darker.

Starting point is 00:30:38 Have explored. It's so real to you. It says as humans. feel so at peace as we are meant to be one with needing stressed and our modern lives, which is often away from nature we can imagine ourselves. In Zion, we realise the night has rolled in ours or our noon is at half crescent, and you can see the stars of thousands in the sky, so clear and bright, you can only see stars like this, away from cities and towns and it's so clear, it's so wonderful.

Starting point is 00:32:12 It feels so relaxed and a piece and you take a big stretch again and get so comfortable in your bed. The bed you're in right now, fall asleep because tomorrow will be, you might be anywhere, close your eyes on the side, but you'll see it again if you want to.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Sleep Meditation - Explore Zion National Park

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