Good evening,
My friend,
Or good night.
My name is Alison and I am just here offering my voice and some words to be a quiet and restful companion for you.
And help you feel safe and ready to relax into rest and sleep.
Being a gentle companion.
To reassure you that you're not alone.
Also.
Offering you the thought of a sleep companion who is with you in the night time ready to take your worries or burdens from the day and from other days.
Away and hold them and look after them for you so you don't have to while you sleep.
A safe presence.
Is protective and kind.
And is here absolutely able to carry what you don't need to carry so you can relax your weary bones and your tired mind.
And melt into the sleep that you so deserve and is so good for you.
If you're someone who finds it hard to give yourself permission and your body permission.
To choose rest.
Know that there are others tonight in this night who are also choosing rest.
And some of them are also listening to my voice.
If you are a night owl,
There are other night owls.
If you're someone who's chosen rest.
There are other wise beings choosing rest right now.
Whatever's happening.
Nothing is wrong.
You're not doing anything wrong.
There's nothing to get right or wrong.
Your body knows how to choose to pause,
To slow down.
Knows how to gather back your energies.
You back into your own body and let go of anything else that it's picked up.
You're just letting it.
Sleep and rest are amazing processes.
There are hormones released in our body that wash out the sticky stuff,
The achy stuff,
The not needed stuff.
There are processes that integrate all the parts looking for home.
Letting them come back.
Into the hole.
Well we don't have to do anything at all.
Sometimes our brains think they have to keep working.
They have to work or figure it out.
We just let them know Let your brain know it doesn't have to do anything at all.
Nothing to solve.
While you're asleep background processes go much deeper than your mind can.
As you feel yourself surrendering to gravity.
Dropping into your body.
And the comfort of your pillow,
Your mattress.
Covers,
Touching your skin.
Maybe you can imagine this caretaker,
This quiet,
Supportive presence,
Safe presence who is ready to take and carry the things that you've been holding for you.
Take them away from you so you can sleep.
It might be an invisible.
Presence or more tangible.
You might imagine they're stretching out their hands to say I'll take your load while you sleep.
I'll take care of all of this for you.
Give it over to me and you can sleep peacefully.
And maybe this presence can add some light to it.
Or some help with something and work on it for you.
So just know now that you're safe to give any worries or concerns or to-do lists over to this presence.
Put them into their hands.
Anything that could be keeping you awake.
And that could be ideas.
Thoughts.
Feelings.
You do not have to hold them now,
You can give them over.
This is a time just for rest.
Emptying.
And you can pick them up again.
Or not.
You don't have to hold them alone.
Caretaker,
Your sleep companion is waiting and wanting to hold them for you.
And this could be a gentle figure.
Or a wise part of you or an angel.
Or the vast intelligence of the night itself.
Could be the soft presence of any guardian spirit that you're handing it over to.
Watching over you steady and wise and ancient.
Caretaker may simply be the air around you whispering.
I will hold this for you beloved.
I will hold this for you and you.
Can let go.
Can you feel yourself handing over your thoughts?
Your concerns,
Any residue.
The caretaker will take care of them.
While you rest and sleep.
You are safe to give them over.
You are safe to rest.
To let yourself be at ease my friend.
Remembering times when you have felt ease in your body.
And what happens in your body,
In your feelings when you are at ease.
In your spirit,
In your thoughts,
When you are at ease.
You're remembering there's nothing to figure out,
To fix or understand.
Not now.
That can be later,
It's not now.
You're just letting your body remember.
Your smiling body.
That can feel ease that all is well.
You are deeply,
Deeply,
Profoundly safe.
I am here,
It's just my voice.
And I'll continue to offer these words.
Nothing for you to do or say.
Nothing to learn or understand.
Just allow your body to receive.
You are not alone.
It is safe to let go and rest Relax.
Your worries are taken care of.
Your body is surrendering to peace.
You can trust in the choir.
Of this space.
You are not alone.
It is safe to let go and rest.
Your worries are taken care of.
Your body is surrendering to peace.
You can trust in the quiet of this space.
I am not alone.
It is safe to let go and rest.
My worries are taken care of.
I surrender my body to peace.
I can trust in the quiet of this space.
I am not alone.
It is safe to let go and rest.
My worries are taken care of My body is surrendering to peace.
And I trust in the quiet of this space.
Goodnight.
Sweet you.
Good night.
