Settle in.
Give your body permission to arrive before your mind tries to understand anything.
Feel where you are supported.
The bed beneath you.
The pillow holding your head.
The quiet space around you.
Take a slow breath in through your nose and release it out of your mouth like a gentle sigh.
Again,
Inhale and let the exhale be longer than you expect.
You are not carrying today into tomorrow.
Not all of it.
Not the heaviness.
Not the noise.
Not the energy that was never yours to hold.
Right now,
We wash the day away.
Imagine above you,
A soft,
Warm light,
Not harsh,
Not blinding,
Just steady,
Kind,
Patient.
This light knows you and knows how hard you've tried today.
It knows what you've carried quietly.
And now,
It begins to gently pour downward.
Like warm water.
Like golden rain.
Like something sacred returning you to yourself.
The light touches the top of your head.
And as it does,
Imagine it loosening everything you picked up mentally today.
Conversations,
Decisions,
Things you replayed,
Things you wish you said differently.
You don't have to hold every moment forever.
Breathe in and exhale.
The mind softens.
Breathe in.
Exhale.
The mind loosens.
Breathe in.
Exhale.
The grip the mind has on today is gone.
The light moves down across your forehead.
Softening effort.
Softening energy.
Softening vigilance.
Softening the need to watch everything.
Your eyes can rest.
The muscles around your eyes can let go of holding the world together.
Your jaw loosens.
Your tongue is heavy and relaxed in your mouth.
You are safe to be unguarded here.
The light flows into your throat and neck.
Washing away words you swallowed.
Washing away moments you felt misunderstood.
Washing away the pressure to explain yourself perfectly.
You are allowed to exist without constant translation.
The light pours across your shoulders.
Feel it lifting what you carried for others.
The emotional weight.
The responsibility.
The invisible labor of being strong.
Being steady.
Being the one others lean on.
Settle in.
You are allowed to be held too.
The light moves slowly through your chest,
Around your heart.
Washing away disappointment,
Fear.
Washing away the moments you felt like you were too much or not enough.
Your heart does not need to perform to be worthy of rest.
Breathe in.
Exhale.
Imagining the chest growing softer,
Warmer,
More open.
Breathe in.
Exhale.
Noticing the space you've created through the body.
The lightness.
The ease.
The light flows now into your stomach.
Softening.
Softening all it holds.
Softening the places stress likes to hide.
Softening the clenching.
Your belly is relaxed.
Tell your body,
We survived today.
We're allowed to power down.
Washing away stored tension.
You do not have to stay ready for the next thing to happen anymore.
The light moves down the thighs,
The knees,
The calves.
Releasing into the feet and out the toes.
Releasing forward momentum.
Releasing urgency.
Releasing the feeling that you must keep going or everything will fall apart.
The earth is holding you.
You are not holding the earth.
Everything that is not yours.
Everything that does not belong to your spirit.
Everything your body has carried.
Drains gently out through the soles of the feet.
Back into the earth.
Where it can be recycled.
Where it can be transformed.
Where you don't have to manage it anymore.
Imagine your entire body surrounded by a soft field of clean,
Quiet light.
This is your energy.
Your natural state.
Clear,
Steady,
Whole.
Nothing missing.
Nothing leaking.
Nothing contaminated.
Just you.
As you were meant to feel.
Take one slow breath in.
As you exhale,
Let sleep begin to come closer.
You don't have to chase it.
Just let it find you.
The day is complete.
You did enough.
You are enough.
Tomorrow will meet you when you wake.
