Welcome to this awakened body,
Deep body listening,
Guided meditation.
The body has a profound ability to heal itself,
To return itself to balance,
To thriving,
To vitality.
The body is doing this work all the time.
As we settle in now to sleep,
We want to support that process,
Helping the body to restore itself in these peaceful nighttime hours.
Now is the time to let the body rest.
Stretch out your body in the warm,
Comfortable place where you will sleep tonight.
Open the mouth nice and wide and exhale the breath out,
Releasing the stress of the day.
Now is the time for sleep.
Now is the time for restoration.
Now is the time for healing.
Your body now is safe and whole.
It served you well today.
It carried you from place to place,
Helped you fulfill your roles and responsibilities.
Now is the time for rest.
Let's begin to relax the body,
Feeling ourselves getting heavy,
Heavy with sleep.
A heaviness,
Letting the muscles relax,
Letting the soft,
Warm cushion where you're laying receive the fullness of your weight.
You are held.
You are safe.
And let's relax the forehead and cheeks and eyelids.
Place the tongue on the back of the teeth.
Relax the jaw,
The neck.
Feel the collarbone expand as the ribs sink into the bed.
Feel the shoulders soften.
Uncurl the hands.
Feeling the upper body become weighty and relaxed.
Softening through the torso,
Letting the spine rest from its work of today,
Long and stretched,
Held by the surface where you're lying.
Let the legs play open.
Relax the organs of the torso.
Relax the belly.
Relax the legs.
The quads and calves.
Relax the feet.
Inhale deeply.
Exhale out through the mouth,
Laying the body down for deep rest.
Kabbalah teaches that this plane of existence contains at least four dimensions of manifest reality.
We can feel them softening as we drift off to sleep.
Feel your physical body weighty on the bed.
It rests like a cradle,
A holy vessel made of the stuff of this earth,
Cradling the emotional body,
Which churns like water throughout the day,
Ever changing,
Full of life,
Albeit sometimes tempestuous.
Which contains within it the energetic body.
That which expands as we breathe,
As we radiate,
When we feel hopeful or joyful.
Which contains and grounds and supports the astral body.
The part of us that is God's stuff,
Ever so lightly tethered here,
Weighted down by our loyalty to this particular energetic constellation,
To this particular ego,
To these particular desires and feelings,
To this particular earthen vessel,
Which is your body.
Breathing deeply.
Perceiving these four dimensions of you.
Each one a cradle for the next.
As we enter sleep,
We lay the physical body to rest.
It becomes weighty like the earth.
It rests in its heaviness.
So that it can repair itself.
Our muscles growing stronger thanks to the little tiny tears that they endured today.
Our bones generating new bone tissue,
New white blood cells,
Thanks to the strain of the day.
Feel the energetic body.
As it rains down healing energy into the physical body.
Bringing your awareness now to your emotional body.
Releasing any storms of the day.
If you need guidance tonight,
You can request help from your higher selves for some storm that might have erupted in the emotional body.
Here in sleep,
We have tremendous potential to draw down wisdom.
The barriers between the dimensions of us softer now.
So if you need to,
Right now you can ask your angels for help.
Ask your astral body the part of you that has never left God.
Ask your Nishama for help.
Feel your emotional body cradled in loving embrace by your physical body.
The parts of you that are sturdy,
Holding,
Loving,
Healing the parts of you that are like water.
That flows so easily from one mind state to the next,
Always changing.
See yourself as crystalline water filling this earthen vessel.
See the light that glimmers off that water.
Your energetic body.
Weaver and keeper of your story.
It's here on this radiant canvas that your dreams can unfold.
Your nighttime teachers helping you to metabolize the mental inputs of the day.
This sparkling crystalline surface of the water is beyond time and space.
Your energetic body beyond time and space.
This is the canvas for lucid dreaming.
The part of you that can get up and walk about the world.
Travel to distant times and distant lands if you so choose.
Here as you sleep,
The work of this part of you is to weave your story.
To continue to metabolize moments that were perhaps too overwhelming.
To really experience during the day.
Now your mental energetic body can make sense of them.
Ask for your angels blessings to weave a story that is wholesome.
And hopeful.
A story of your ever unfolding healing.
Ever unfolding growth.
Drinking deeply from the wisdom of today's lessons.
Inviting the moment to moment of your life to help you to better know yourself.
Soften the barriers that block love from entering.
Expanding.
Forgetting the lie that we are separate from one another.
That we have what to fear from one another.
This mental energetic part of you remembers oneness.
So close as it is to your astral self.
Now your soul is free to dwell in the land of souls as you sleep.
It need not be confused now.
That it is located in this particular time and place.
This particular story.
This particular ego.
This particular earthen vessel.
Now your soul is free to dance in the land of souls.
Drawing down source energy.
Calling each and every cell back into alignment.
Whispering your purpose.
I am here on a mission.
Help me to be strong.
Resilient.
Vital.
Brave.
I sing my soul song in the world.
And as such I am radiant.
May your sleep be deep and restorative.
May it be healing.
May you draw down wisdom and insights from the upper worlds.
May they bring you comfort and peace.
May you feel soothed and loved.
May you feel in your physical body as a sturdy container for the work of your life.
May it heal now as you sleep.
Turning each cell to its divine balance.
Thriving.
Releasing.
Birthing another.
And surrendering with ease when its time is up.
Feel yourself healing as you sleep.
