Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Vagus Nerve Sleep Hypnosis - Release Stored Stress & Heal Your Nervous System

Episode Date: June 1, 2026

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I hope you enjoy it and let's begin. I want you to get yourself into a very comfortable position. lie in the bed with your head gently resting on the pillow allow your arms to rest softly by your sides or wherever

feels most comfortable for you and grant your body permission to remain completely still for the duration of this recording there is nothing you need to do tonight nothing you need to fix

nothing you need to think about or solve the only thing you are here to do is to allow yourself to rest so let's begin with some very slow gentle breathing together I want you to breathe in slowly through your nose filling your belly first

then your chest hold for a moment and I'll breathe out very slowly through your mouth emptying every last drop of air letting your body sink a little deeper with each exhale good let's do that again breathe in through your nose slowly and deeply filling your body up and then breathe out slowly and completely and just let go once more. Breathe in deep and slow and then breathe out even slower this time.

Releasing everything that you've been carrying today. That's good. Very good. Notice how your body already feels lighter, heavier, just after those few breaths. That is your nervous system, beginning to shift, moving away from the busy,

and a state of the day, and moving towards the neat, restful state of healing sleep. Tonight I want you to bring gentle awareness to something remarkable that lives inside your body running from the base of your brain all the way down through your throat

through your chest and into your body there is a long wandering nerve your vagus nerve this nerve is your body's natural pathway to calm it is sometimes called the rest and restore nerve

and when it is gently activated. It sends a powerful signal to every organ and every muscle and every cell in your body that says it is safe to let go now. The day is done. There is nothing left to guard against. And you may just rest. And for many of us, that signal has been a muffled. day after day, week after week. Stress builds and settles into the body, not just in the mind, but physically in the muscles on the neck, in the tightness of the chest, in the belly that holds its breath. Stress becomes stalled and the body forgets how to fully let go. Tonight we're going to change that.

We're going to gently wake up that vagus nerve and allow it to carry its calming message all the way. From the top of your head, down to the very tips of your toes, and all you need to listen and allow. And we'll need to take another slow breath in through your nose.

And this time, as you breathe out through your mouth I want you to make it the longest slowest exhale you can let the breath trail out like a long gentle sigh to the very end that's good

that long slow exhale is one of the most powerful ways to activate your vagus nerve with each extended breathes out. You were sending your body a direct message. You were saying I am safe, I can release and I can rest. And let's do that once more. Breathing it slowly, filling your many completely, long and snow, training the air out, letting it take with it any kindness, any more. any health stress and that's good, that's so wonderful you're doing so well awareness.

Through your body, from the feet upland, imagine that the calming signal of your finger's nerve is spreading through each area we've seen, softening everything it touches as begin with your feet. Bring your awareness down now. to your feet and your toes notice how they feel perhaps they feel tired from carrying you through the day and as you become aware of them

allow them to finally let go and relax feel the muscles in your feet soften and spread perhaps you notice a gentle warmth or tingling their relaxation begins to flow and energy begin to move upward into your calves and relax these muscles have been working hard they can simply let go and do you feel them growing heavy and loose and relax and you breathe in and breathe out slowly sending the message that's good to let one into your thighs, those large muscles simply releasing, hanging down heavily from becoming loose and languid.

And if your mind is beginning to wonder now, that's okay. That just means you are relaxing and a feeling very languid. Your subconscious mind is listening carefully. To every word I say, you feel yourself, letting go a little bit of a little. lips and melv relax now. So much tension is stormed here. The tension of sitting and racing. Of holding yourself upright during the day and now that tension is no longer needed. You let it drain away, softening and sinking. This is somewhere many of us hold. Perhaps you can feel it.

A subtle tightening, embracing that has been there so long. You have stopped noticing it. Stop noticing it a slow, deep breath right into the small of your back and as you breathe out. Imagine that storm tension dissolving and releasing. Like ice, beginning to melt in warm water. That's good. So very good, that releasing energy. Moving upward, through your abdomen, your stomach.

your stomach and digestive organs this is an area though your vagus nerve passes directly through softening here a quiet and winding of everything held in if there is any anxiety

stalled here any knocks to begin to listen to soften and to let go and breathe in through your nose and releasing moves down to you your chest, your heart alone, low exhale. Your heart rate naturally begins to settle into a calm,

steady. This is your finger's nerve. Doing its beautiful work, signaling your heart to slow, to settle and to rest. Now the energy moves up in just a fraction more towards the mat, releasing, letting go. That's so good, that's wonderful, and you look that more the most important. Because this is where your vagus nerve travels close to the surface around the sides of the throat and you feel the muscles. On either side of your throat is softening now, the back of your neck releasing muscle is simply in white and as your neck relaxes. I want you to gently put your lips very slightly in a minute of space.

Between your teeth become completely loose and free. Your tongue resting softly in your motion spreads across your face, the muscles around your eyes, softening and smoothing out the tiny muscles of your forehead, releasing. Your scalp relaxing. all the way to the top of your head, your entire body, from your feet to the top of your head, is now bathed in a warm, calming energy. And that energy is speaking to your vagus nerve.

And your vagus nerve is speaking to every soul in your body and the message it is carrying as this. It is safe and you can let go take you even deeper in a moment and we're going to guide you through a very special kind of body scan this is not just about relaxing the muscles

though your body is already beautifully relaxed this is about going deeper into the layers of tissue and memory where stress becomes stalled over time because we all carry more than we realise. Life asks a great deal of us. We show up day after day,

holding our nerves steady through difficult conversations and difficult days and difficult seasons. It keeps, we consciously visit those stalled places and give them permission to release. They remain, quietly tensing, embracing beneath the surface and to visit those places

gently and kindly without effort or force and again focus on your feet and ask them to release stress and a gentle heaviness in the feet slowly relaxes and imagine a grey like mist

beginning to rise upwards out of the tissues of your feet wear any stalled up stress from day in your life has been you like steam rising off warm ground after rate and after it rises it simply dissolves it's gone

it's released and the space behind is a warm golden light and you feel cleaner lighter and freer that's so good you're doing wonderfully and this relaxing feeling moves up your calves into your lower legs

as you breathe in and out slowly imagining the release the stored stress moving out of your lower legs like that fine grey mist rising and dissolving of your vagus nerves calm energy and it goes into your thighs

and your hips as you're breathing and releasing breathing and releasing with each along slow exhale more stored stress lifts out of your body and disappears it goes out of your muscles

and your tissues and you become lighter with each breath and this feeling flows into your torso into your belly a place where many people carry the deepest stormed emotions they have. Fear and worry. This place now, a long deep breath, right into the centre of your belly and as he breathe out, you feel that area soften and open and he held releasing.

The tiny sound there, anything they're held for days, weeks, months or years, is just gently unwinding. and you might feel a physical sensation. Perhaps some warm tingling. Perhaps something releasing. And that is your body, responding to the healing that is happening right now. As he breathed again, deep in and out, long as slow,

weighing his nerves and doing beautiful, but you feel so good. Chin has been released. And the feeling moves up into your upper chest, releasing or tension. when you don't have to hold on to it anymore. You can carry it into sleep tonight. And you breathe in long and slow letting go.

Shoulders and neck. Where we carry the weight to the day with us. And your shoulders can drop. They're no longer needed for carrying heavy weights. The task is done. So just release and drop your shoulders. Let your neck settle into the pillow. And he softened as your jaw, your face, your head just feels doubly relaxed now.

And any stress just lifts off your body like a fine grey mist. Jenny rising, gently dissolving, leaving behind only stillness. And you quiet and any calm and your whole body is deeply released with every area of storms. stress, just letting go has been replaced with relaxation, with that warm golden healing stillness that flows into every part of you. From the very tips of your toes, in your beautifully relaxed state, I want to invite you to a very special place, a place you know well, A place that exists only for you in your mind's eye Imagine yourself at the edge of a forest and dusk

The trees are ancient and tall And the leaves catch the last golden night On the evening and hold it Glowing softly all around you The air is warm. Just the right temperature and you can feel the slightest breath of breeze across your skin, beneath your feet.

The ground is soft. Perhaps there is grass or moss. Something soft and cool. You are completely safe here. There is nothing here that means you any harm. there is nothing here that needs anything from you and as you stand at the edge of this forest you notice a path ahead of you

leaning gently inward through the trees the path is wide and well lit with a golden evening light and it feels entirely welcoming entirely safe begin to walk slowly along this place As you walk you notice the sounds of the forest around you. Perhaps the distant sound of a stream.

The soft calling of birds settling into their nests for the night. The whisper of the leaves and the breeze. Every sound you hear, including my voice, only serves to take you deeper asleep, deeper into healing and deeper into a small clearing. small clearing and in the centre of the clearing there is a still dark pole. The surface of the water is perfectly flat and calm, reflecting the first stars of the evening, appearing in the sky above. You sit down on the edge of this ball, on the soft morning into the still water and you notice the reflection looking back at you, it looks rested and from. This This is you, the real you, beneath the stress, beneath the tiredness, and you stay here for a while,

beside this still water, breathing slowly and peacefully, your vagus nerve restoring with this gentle healing signal, like a healing humming and your body continues to release and restore with every breath. very deeply at peace, drifting beautifully towards sleep. And as you rest here beside the still water, I want to offer you some gentle words for your subconscious mind to receive. You do not need to think about them or analyze them. Simply allow them to drift down into the soft open space within you. Where they were settled like seeds and warmer.

The nervous system knows how to heal every night as I sleep. My body releases stored stress and restores itself. I am safe and my body knows it is safe. My vagus nerve is active and working and I'm in rest. I am restoring and I wake each feeling lighter than the night before. I release what I cannot control. I release what is not mine to carry, and sleep is my natural state. My body knows how to do this, with each night of deep healing sleep.

I become more calm and more clear, more fully myself, and I'm heeding now, and account slowly now from tenor I say you'll find yourself drifting. Just a little deeper asleep. and it will deeper into healing rest until the time I reach one you'll be very very deeply asleep drifting down deeper and deeper with every breath out releasing a little more going deeper

the sounds around you only helping you go deeper asleep seven deeper now your subconscious mind completely open and receptive, taking in only water's mood and healing for you, drifting, floating, letting halfway down and feeling so wonderfully sleepy, so heavy and warm and safe. The last traces of waking consciousness, beginning to soften and fade,

so deeply asleep now, your body continuing as healing with the vagus nerve, carrying its mutable calming signal, almost there now, resting so peacefully, so completely. One, leavely, leavely, sleep. You have done something wonderful tonight. You have given your body and your nervous system, the gift of deep conscious release. You have visited the small places, are ones that carry the weight of everything you have been through, and have given them permission to let go. And as you sleep tonight, your body will continue this healing. Your vagus nerve will continue to guide you need better to rest of restoration, and with every breath, you take to sleep, your body releases more of what it no longer needs to carry. You deserve this

rest. You deserved if you were like, you deserve to wake up tomorrow. And it's all freer than you were today. And I'm proud of you for taking this time for yourself and the rest of the night. He'll sleep. Good night.