Welcome friend,
Your day is complete.
Everything you did was enough.
Everything you didn't do can be left for another day,
Another dawn.
You are safe now,
You're entering the quiet that holds all things.
Taking a breath in softly now,
Then exhale completely when you're ready.
Letting your breathing take its natural rhythm,
Each breath arriving on its own.
This is how life breathes through you without effort.
You are already part of something vast and kind.
Feel the surface beneath you supporting your weight.
It will not let you fall.
Let yourself be held and received.
Your mind may flicker with small lights of thought.
Let them fade on their own.
You are not the thoughts and the flickers.
Your mind is just calibrating,
Wanting to help.
And just breathe and know you are the peace around the thoughts.
As that awareness settles a deeper peace begins to rise in you.
Quiet,
Steady,
Familiar.
It's always been here waiting beneath the noise and the movement.
Breathe as though you are being breathed by peace itself.
Each inhale gathers gentleness,
Each exhale releases what is finished.
Saying softly inside,
I release the day.
I return to peace.
Gentleness.
The meaning of these words sinks beneath the language.
They become the feeling of kindness,
Of gentleness.
There is a presence within you that needs no sleep.
It is not your conscious mind.
It is a calm awareness that watches over you.
You might call it the quiet centre of life.
It asks nothing of you except that you be cared for and surrender into the kindness and wisdom that will restore,
Comfort,
Recalibrate you.
Surrender is not giving up.
Surrender to this kindness is not being unsafe.
It is a kindness,
A pleasure and a peace.
A comfort and a safety.
A restoration,
A leaning into intelligence,
Wisdom and health.
Let yourself be carried into gentleness,
Kindness,
Wise care.
Feel your heart choosing rest in your chest now.
Imagine it softening.
Expanding a little with each breath.
For your heart knows you are safe to rest,
Enjoying the calm.
The warmth of gratitude rises as you let go.
For the unseen life that holds you in care through the night.
The gratitude draws your mind inwards,
Opening doors to peace and calm,
Rest.
Rest.
You may notice small waves of silence moving through your body.
The silence beneath all sound.
This is the living stillness.
It is a sanctuary,
A holy experience without words.
It is good to rest here.
It is enough to rest here.
It is a wonderful place to rest.
If thoughts return,
Greet them gently,
Bless them and let them go.
They are children of the mind and your mind is learning to sleep with every moment.
Each time you let go you drift deeper into the field of rest that surrounds all things.
Say to yourself within,
Slowly and tenderly,
I am loved.
Repeating again until the words dissolve into silence and the silence will carry you.
I am loved.
I am free.
I am free.
Your breathing growing slower.
The intelligence and wisdom of rest.
Hear love and sleep watch over you.
Keep your heart beating,
Your breath flowing through you and your body healing and renewing.
Restoring.
For sleep is wise.
A friend.
A carer.
You are safe in the hands of the loving friend that is sleep,
The protector.
Just drifting now.
There is no need to hold onto consciousness.
For consciousness cannot do all that sleep can do for you.
For it is intelligent,
Wise and infinitely caring.
The healer.
The best friend.
The gentle love that flows through and all around you,
Caring for you as you rest.
Sleep rises up to meet you,
Offering love to breathe through you,
Through your sleeping rest.
You are safe.
Love that surrounds you,
That is sleep,
Welcomes you,
Cares for you and guides you through the night.
Safely protecting you and healing your body,
Your heart,
Your mind.
With all intelligence,
With all care,
Gentleness,
With all love,
Wisdom and peace.
It is very gentle and very good.
It is for you.
It is freedom,
Healing and love.
Your breath deepening and pulse slowing to a gentle,
Natural pace.
And sleep rising to meet you as a good friend,
Here to help,
To heal,
To recalibrate,
To care for you as you quietly,
Safely release.
Thoughts just drifting away now.
Disappearing.
Calm,
Peace.
It is you.
The sacred space and experience of sleep.
Here for you every night.
Rising up to meet you gently,
Safely.
Here for you to land gently like a soft bed.
Kind and gentle around you.
Goodness fills us as we sleep.
A deep,
Kind,
Infinite goodness arrives and cares for us as we sleep.
The goodness that fills creation,
Kindness that flows,
That chooses us as we sleep,
Is here for you,
Your friend,
Your companion,
Gently guiding you as you fall asleep.
Guiding,
Caring for you as you rest.
For sleep is the best of things,
The gentlest of energies,
The kindness of all that is,
Comes to you as sleep.
The kindness of all things arrives as you sleep,
Giving wonders,
Intelligence,
Wisdom and healing.
He gives gifts to us through the night.
He cares for our body,
Every cell,
Every organ,
He cares for our minds as we rest,
Recalibrating,
Uplifting,
A loving kindness flowing through our minds.
For it knows love,
It knows us,
Cares for us,
Uplifts us,
Brings us pleasure and joy and such care.
Our sleep is every good thing,
A true pure friend of infinite presence,
Care and love.
It is a sanctuary,
Divine,
Loving,
Giving.
Bless you my friend,
Hear my words and know you are not alone,
I am here with you,
Or perhaps letting you know for the first time how kind sleep is.
What a great friend sleep chooses to be,
Wanting to help,
Wanting to care for you.
And those thoughts or dreams that are stuck,
It's okay,
For sleep will melt them away.
Kindness and love into your body,
Into your mind and heart,
Into your soul.
Cleansing and healing you of all things past,
Letting go,
Letting your breath breathe you kindly,
You are safe in my words.
Anything that has hurt you,
Let sleep wash away now,
Let it go into the arms of sleep.
And be taken from you for this night you rest,
This night you are cared for my friend,
With such depth,
Understanding,
Compassion and love,
Loved as you are here now.
And cared for by sleep,
As time dissolves,
Space cares for you,
Compassion,
The presence of such kindness.
For sleep loves you,
Helps you,
Supports you,
Cares for you kindly,
Heals you,
Guides your body as you rest,
Into such a depth of restoration and healing,
As can be made this night,
You are experiencing love at its best,
You are safe here,
As you drift,
Gently now,
Gently,
Into the freedom of the space,
And recalibration and restoration,
Recalibration,
Intelligent,
Wise,
Kind love,
Love that chooses to give you gifts over a calm,
Quiet sleep,
Gifts of kindness and care through a sleeping experience of rest,
You are known my friend,
And cared for so very deeply,
In beautiful ways of pure goodness,
Protected,
Preciously adored,
Supported,
Healed and treasured,
That holds and loves you gently,
Your body naturally breathing breath,
Your heart rhythm slowing to calm and peace,
Enjoying rest,
