Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Sleep Meditation: Visit the Relaxing Spa (With bonus Rapunzel story)

Episode Date: June 11, 2020

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This episode is a sleep meditation where I take you to a relaxing, calming, calming spa, where the treatments will put you in a state of calm, ready to go to sleep. I have also included a bonus bedtime story of the classic tale of Rapunzel. This will make up the first half of the recording, but please feel free to skip to the second part,

Go to 17 minutes on the episode for the stress-busting spa. Apunzel, there was once a man and a woman, who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their house, from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress

who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. One day, the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful Rampian, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it and quite pined away and began to look pale and miserable. Then her husband was alarmed and asked, What ails you, dear wife? She replied.

If I can't eat some of the rampion which is in the garden behind our house I shall die The man who loved her thought Sooner than let your wife die Bring her some of the rampian yourself Let it cost what it will At twilight he clambered down over the wall

Into the garden of the enchanted of the enchantress. Hastily clutched a handful of rampion and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it and ate it greedily. It tasted so good to her, so very good,

but the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest, her husband, must once more descend into the garden In the gloom of the evening therefore he let himself down again But when he had clambered down the wall He was terribly afraid For he saw the enchantress standing before him How can you dare? She said with an angry look

Descend into my garden And steal my rampion like a thief you shall suffer for it and said he let mercy take the place of justice I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity my wife saw your rampion from the window and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat

and the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened and said to him If the case be as you say I will allow you to take away with you As much rampion as you will Only I make one condition You must give me the child Which your wife will bring into the world

It shall be treated well And I will care for it like a mother The man in his terror can send him to everything and when the woman was brought to bed the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel and took it away with her. Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was 12 years old, the Enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest and had neither stairs nor door.

But quite at the top was a little window. When the Enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me. Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold. and when she heard the voice of the enchantress, she unfastened her braided tresses and wound them round one of the hooks of the window above. And then the hair fell 20 yells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

After a year or two it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. when he heard a song which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted a climb up to her and looked for the door of the tower. But none was to be found. He rode home. but the singing had so deeply touched his heart that every day he went into the forest and listened to it

once when he was thus standing behind a tree he saw that an entrantress came there and he heard how she cried Rapunzel Rapunzel let your hair down to me then Rapunzel let down the braids of hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her. If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune, said he.

And the next day, when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me. immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up at first rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such as her eyes had never yet beheld came to her but the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband

she saw that he was young and handsome she thought you will love me more than old Dame Gopholders and she said yes and laid her hand in his she said I will willingly go away with you

But I do not know how to get down Bring with you a scine of silk Every time that you come And I will weave the ladder with it And when that is ready I will descend And you will take me on your horse They agreed that until that time

You should come to her Every evening For the old woman came by day The Enchantress remarked nothing of this Until once Rapunzel said to her Tell me Dame Gothel How it happens that you are so much heavier for me To draw up

When the young king's son He is with me in a moment Ah you wicked child cried the enchantress What do I hear you say I thought I had separated you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me. In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her hand, seized a pair of scissors with a right and snip-snip, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground, and she was so pitiless that she took

away Paul Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live. great grief and misery on the same day that she cast out Rapunzel. However, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off to the hook of the window. And when the king's son came, she cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair to me. She let the hair down the king's son ascended. But instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, He found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks.

Aha, she cried mockingly. You would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest. The cat has got it and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you, and you will never see her again. The king's son was beside himself with a pain in his despair He leapt down from the tower He escaped with his life But the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes

Then he wondered quite blind about the forest Ain't nothing but roots and berries And did naught but lament and weep Over the loss of his dearest wife to be Thus he roamed about in misery for some years And at length came to the desert where Rapunzel With the twins to which she had given birth a boy and a girl Lived in wretchedness

He heard a voice and it seemed so familiar to him That he went towards it And when he approached Rapunzel knew him And fell on his neck and wept Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again and he could see with them

as before he led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received and they lived for a long time afterwards happy and contented in the meditation spa

the stress spa were all stresses would be washed away firstly in your bed it's always wise to make sure your breathing is slow and steady and if you can take some deep breath through your stomach through your nose and when I say in through your stomach

I mean into your stomach as you breathe deeply and then just allow the air to exhale like you're letting the air out of a balloon just gently pushing out, let your body just naturally do the work. Taking deep breath, reduces stress, promotes calm and stops any stressful hormones. Forming, so if you think you are over-breathing

and breathing fast, or what is called breathing through your shoulders, concentrate on your stomach and take those deep breaths in and you'll soon find when this takes you into a peaceful place of relaxation but please get as comfortable as you can in your bed into the position you like the most if it's on your back

on your side on your front and do what's best for you have a little stretch and stretch and tense those muscles and then relax and maybe have another little stretch and stretch those muscles out and run. We want to make sure we're in the perfect place for sleep. Mind's eye and want us to think to the stress-busting spa.

We can imagine a door and we're greeted by a nice person and we go in. And in front of us, there's some candles in a room flickering away. All music plays. There's a massage table. In front of us, we're all ready for the massage. and we get on the table and it's very comfortable. We put our head in the whole fit your head into and take some tea breaths again. And the masseuse is now here.

Just take in the natural music for a second. And there's some nice smells as well floating around the room. And the masseuse takes some massage oil and rubs it in their hands. and asks you to smell it, to see if it's the oil. You would like to be having massaged into your tissues, into your muscle tissues, and you take a deep breath in, to the hands in front of you,

and it's had a lovely smell, a beautiful smell. And you say yes, you want to perceive. And the masseuse starts gently, massaging your neck muscles. very gently, getting any of the tightness and rubbing their fingers up and down the neck. In the grooves of the fingertips,

gently strode the skin. And the tightness of your neck seems to go now. You go down to your shoulders. And they massage your shoulders now. A little bit more firm, but getting all the tension out. You drop your shoulders and you might act out a little size

your shoulders are gently being massaged. It feels so wonderful. You might have had a massage before. You know how relaxing it can feel. You might have never had one before. And this is your first time experiencing a deep body relaxation of your muscles and tissues. Just becoming so relaxed.

It feels so good as the masseuse goes down and massages the top of your back and applying a little bit more pressure. But as the pressure is applied, the muscles relax even more. It's just like when you did those stretches or you've done a stretch before. You might be feeling a little tight, but as you stretch, the muscles naturally stretch out, at least the stretch, at least the stretch, your muscles feel a bit warmer and a bit nicer.

As you've activated those muscle fibres and those muscle tissues, it just feels so good. Your body rewards you for doing these stretches, just as your body is rewarding you now, as the masseuse deeply massages those tissues. It feels wonderful as they move into the lower bat. From the shoulders they move upwards and go down your arms, massaging all the arm muscles, releasing any built up tension and stress.

It feels so nice, it feels so good. Go back again, plodied their fingers down and to the top of the legs and down the legs. Massaging all those big muscles there. there, from your thighs down into your calves, removing any stress of the day, any tightness, any weariness, being dissolved away now. The music, and you smell the oils. You can see the candle lights gently flicker on the floor. This really is a peaceful place, or the masseuse.

You're relaxing your legs from the top to the bottom. All those tense muscles to relax, glide the hands up and down. and down to your feet and gently, very gently, rub your feet and your toes. You feel so relaxed and even have a little sparkly feeling coming towards you. Feels so good and you gently roll over. Some Pseuss now cleans their hands, inns to give you a head massage, massaging and gently kneading your scalp.

Feel so nice and just go deeper, deeper down. And they get some new oils out. Eat activate them again in their hands, them together. They put their hands in front of your nose again. And you take a deep breath in and it smells even better than before. You didn't think it would smell better. It matches your taste and the smells you like. They've done massaging your head and your scalp down to your forehead, little circles with their fingertips,

and you feel all the lines in your face relax. In your forehead detents, eyes feel so light as they use the pads on their fingers to gently, very gently around your eyes and you feel your eyes relaxing. As the fingertips move down your cheeks, your jaw gently drops. and any tension there disappears as your mouth if it was clenched smile drops your face now feels

totally and utterly relaxed as the fingers glide down round your neck and to the top of your shoulders and it feels so good and if your eyes weren't closed already just take a deep breath in again

and take in the sounds of the room, sounds of the music, and you just take it all in. The masseuse now tells you the bath is ready, and you move into the next room, and the masseuse close the door behind her as they leave the room. You take in your surroundings again, and it's a luxurious bathroom. Deep comfort of you is a large, circular bath and you can see the steam rising which are foamed up from the oils which have been put into the bath you decide to step in as you step in you can feel the

warmth the water as it goes down your legs as you slowly lower yourself in it's such a good temperature the smells and the water just relax your body or the age and pains away that you might have from the day. And behind you is a soft, fluffy white towel and you lower your head and it feels so nice, it feels so good as you're reclined in the bath and any build-ups or any dirt is gently washed off a big sponge in the bath

and you gently wring it out and glide it over your arms and your body as the massage oils which have absorbed in your skin has left some excess and that gently floats into the bath water. And as you gently wash your body, you feel so clean and you stop washing yourself. And you just recline like words with your head on the towel. You take in the smells, the soft steam and the water is so cleansing, actually. Water now feels like you're having a massage.

It's so amazing and it's so wonderful. Time to leave the bath now. When you stand up, look at one of the spas, fluffy towel and wrap it around you and dry yourself and get a big white rope and put it on. And it feels so good against your skin, you walk off into another room. I admit it is a bedroom.

It could be your bedroom or it could be that you've imagined before. Or it could be completing you. Clean and pristine. You put these on and the clean bed clothes feel so good against your clean. skin, you walk up to the bed and you realize and sheets have just been changed. Gently pull them to one side to allow yourself to slide into the bed and put the sheets back on you. Sensation of your clean skin, the clean bed clothes and the clean sheets and the clean sheets. all together that make you feel so relaxed and peaceful, ready to sleep.

Because you've taken the time to look after yourself, you've done this all in your mind's eye. Because we have to take time to look after ourselves. It's so important. And again, you take a little stretch and get so comfortable. It's in to the big and your body sinks into the bat. thing is just perfect and just right and all stresses of the day have gone