| Length | 15:38 |
|---|---|
| Subject | Sleep & Bedtime |
| Best time | Lights off, settled for the night |
| Position | Lying down, in your sleeping position |
| Style | Short lines, said twice, getting slower as it goes. Music underneath |
About this meditation
Nothing to picture and nowhere to walk. Just short lines, said twice, until your mind stops arguing about whether it is safe to sleep.
About 15 minutes. Only listen where it is safe to sleep.
My bedroom is ideal for deep healing sleep. Today is already over. My heart is grateful, my mind is quiet, my body is sleeping. You repeat each one after me and they get slower and quieter as we go. It is the plainest thing on the feed, and for some people it is the only one that works.
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Who this is for
You cannot be doing with a story tonight. No garden, no forest, no walking anywhere.
This is the plainest thing on the feed and for some people it is the only one that works. Only listen somewhere it is safe to fall asleep.
What happens in this meditation
There is nothing to picture. Just a line, said by me, and then said again for you to repeat.
My bedroom is ideal for deep healing sleep. My body is relaxing. My mind is slowing down. I am feeling safe and secure.
Then the one that does more than it looks like it should. Today is already over.
They get slower and quieter and further apart as it goes, and towards the end it settles onto three lines that just repeat until they stop.
My heart is grateful. My mind is quiet. My body is sleeping.
How to get the most from it
About fifteen minutes, and it thins out towards the end rather than finishing on anything.
Feel each line rather than say it. When you hear that your bedroom is ideal for sleep, notice the bed and the dark and the weight of the covers. The body responds to that far more than to the words.
Repeat them if you want to, out loud or in your head, and stop repeating them the moment that becomes work.
Questions people ask
Do affirmations work if I do not believe them?
They are not doing what you think. You are not convincing yourself of a fact, you are giving a busy mind one short quiet thing to hold instead of everything else, and it settles.
What does today is already over mean?
Exactly what it says. Whatever is unfinished is not getting finished tonight. Most people are lying there negotiating with a day that has already gone.
Is there a bell or a wake up at the end?
No. It fades out. Nothing brings you back.
Read the transcript
The transcript follows the audio. Press any line to jump there.
0:00Steven Webb: Just while you're making yourself comfortable and getting settled in, I just want to tell you about another podcast I
0:06Steven Webb: have. It's called Stillness in the Storms Podcast.
0:10Steven Webb: And it's a podcast that helps you to get a little inner peace when you need it most and you
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0:17Steven Webb: And it's just... Seeing life from a different perspective. And I'm also choosing not to have any
0:25Steven Webb: sponsors for either of these podcasts. So if you would like to treat me to a coffee, you can head
0:32Steven Webb: over to StevenWebb.uk or if you'd like to download the five simple practices for inner peace, also head
0:39Steven Webb: over to StevenWebb.uk. You are awesome. Settle in and enjoy the meditation. I won't disturb you
0:47Steven Webb: after the meditation.
0:51Steven Webb: Welcome to Deep Sleep Affirmations. As
0:56Steven Webb: I say each one of these affirmations, just imagine what it's like to feel it. So when I say my
1:03Steven Webb: bedroom is ideal for a deep healing sleep, imagine what that's like. And when I say my body is
1:11Steven Webb: relaxing for a comfortable night's sleep, imagine your body relaxing in that moment. Imagine what it's like for the
1:18Steven Webb: affirmation to be real.
1:22Steven Webb: As I go through them, you'll slowly drift off to a good deep healing night's sleep and the music will
1:29Steven Webb: fade away and you'll wake up in the morning lovely refreshed and ready for your day ahead.
1:37Steven Webb: So wiggle your body out a little bit, become comfortable and get into the perfect position for sleep.
1:46Steven Webb: And we will begin.
1:58Steven Webb: My bedroom is ideal for deep healing sleep.
2:05Steven Webb: My bedroom is ideal for deep healing sleep.
2:26Steven Webb: My body is relaxing for a comfortable night's sleep.
2:34Steven Webb: My body is relaxing for a comfortable night's sleep.
2:55Steven Webb: I am relaxed and ready for a comfortable night's sleep.
3:03Steven Webb: I am relaxed and ready for a comfortable night's sleep.
3:24Steven Webb: My mind is slowing down.
3:28Steven Webb: My mind is slowing down.
3:52Steven Webb: I am feeling safe and secure.
3:57Steven Webb: I am feeling safe and secure.
4:23Steven Webb: My breathing is slowing down, ready for a deep night's sleep.
4:33Steven Webb: My breathing is slowing down, ready for a deep night's sleep.
5:02Steven Webb: Today is already over.
5:06Steven Webb: Today is already over.
5:38Steven Webb: As I drift off to sleep, my body will rest the whole night through.
5:46Steven Webb: As I drift off to sleep, my body will rest the whole night through.
6:16Steven Webb: I am starting to drift off to sleep.
6:21Steven Webb: I am starting to drift off to sleep.
6:43Steven Webb: My mind is becoming quiet.
6:49Steven Webb: My mind is becoming quiet.
7:12Steven Webb: My body is slowly falling into a deep sleep.
7:19Steven Webb: My body is falling into a deep sleep.
7:57Steven Webb: I can feel my muscles relaxing.
8:03Steven Webb: I can feel my muscles relaxing.
8:35Steven Webb: My body and my mind is entering a deep sleep.
8:40Steven Webb: My body and my mind is entering a deep sleep.
9:12Steven Webb: I am grateful for this comfort.
9:18Steven Webb: I am grateful for this comfort.
9:56Steven Webb: My heart is grateful. My mind is quiet.
10:02Steven Webb: My body is sleeping. My mind
10:10Steven Webb: is falling asleep.
10:48Steven Webb: My heart is grateful. My mind is quiet My body is sleeping
11:20Steven Webb: my heart is grateful
11:25Steven Webb: my Mind is quiet. My body is sleeping.
12:13Steven Webb: My heart is grateful. My mind is quiet.
12:19Steven Webb: My body is sleeping. My mind
12:27Steven Webb: is falling asleep.
13:20Steven Webb: My heart is grateful. My mind is quiet My body is sleeping
14:24Steven Webb: My heart is grateful. My mind is quiet My body is
14:32Steven Webb: sleeping
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