Welcome,
Dear one.
Welcome to your time of rest.
Your day is done.
You've walked far enough.
You've done enough.
You have given enough.
Let everything slow.
Everything soften.
It's time to come home to yourself.
Finding a comfortable position.
Relaxing.
Letting go.
Notice your breath as it flows in and out.
Now take a deep inhale and gently release.
Breathing in your body's own rhythm now.
You don't have to try.
You're being breathed.
For life is doing the work for you.
Feel the surface beneath you.
Steady.
Kind.
Unhurried.
You can lean into it completely.
It will hold you the way the earth holds the sea.
Your body begins to understand,
I don't need to carry myself anymore.
Feeling your face loosen now.
Grateful for this time to relax.
Your shoulders release and feel peace.
Your hands uncurl and rest open now.
So grateful to let go and relax.
Let every part of you be received into calm and peace.
You are safe to let go.
For the night cares for you.
Kind and gentle.
Welcoming you to rest.
Letting go.
Calmly feeling the peace.
If thoughts still whisper,
You don't need to silence them.
Just let them pass through.
You are not your thoughts.
You are the quiet watching over them.
You have always known how to return to peace.
It's older than memory.
The still rhythm beneath all doing,
All thinking.
Now breathe as if the breath were a tide and you are the shore.
Each inhale arrives softly.
Each exhale leaves nothing behind but calm.
Gently whisper within yourself now.
I release this day.
I return to peace.
Let those words sink deeper than language.
Let them become a feeling.
A warmth spreading through your chest and through the whole being of you.
Every beat slowing.
Every thought softening.
Every cell of your body remembering peace.
Your body understands her voice.
It hears her in the rhythm of the breath.
In the calm of rest.
In the silence between sounds.
This is the language of rest.
Of sleep.
And your whole being knows how to answer.
As memories come,
Feelings rise.
Let them be met by compassion.
Let them dissolve in the great kindness moving through you.
You forgive and you are forgiven.
You are free.
You are loved beyond measure.
Saying softly within you now.
I am loved beyond measure.
I forgive and I am forgiven.
I am loved beyond measure.
Finding spaciousness and peace.
Your body gently yields.
You are drifting,
My friend,
Between worlds.
The one that wakes,
Do not try to follow either.
Let them both move around you while you rest.
Here everything is still.
Here you belong completely.
Feel the deep gentleness of the night.
Not darkness,
But rest itself.
The gentle breathing quiet.
The same quiet that holds oceans and stars.
It is holding you now.
It will keep your breath steady.
It will repair what needs mending.
It will soothe what is tired.
You can trust it,
For it cares deeply for you.
The very quiet that you are already becoming.
For it is peaceful and kind.
Let yourself drift.
The night knows how to care for you.
Love you.
Be kind to you.
Heal you.
Restfully care for you.
Rest,
My dear one.
Rest deeply.
You are safe here.
You are loved.
You are home.
The quiet that holds you gently now.
Letting go of the edges now.
Letting go of the effort to stay awake.
Letting go gently of the last thought.
There is only quiet.
There is only rest.
You are safe now.
You are loved here.
You are home in this stillness.
The rhythm of your breath guiding you.
The night gentle and kind.
Holding you the way the air surrounds the world.
Holding you without asking anything in return.
For it knows what rest means.
You do not have to earn this stillness.
It is freely given to you.
All around you becoming a gentle rhythm.
Drawing your body understanding.
This is safety.
This is restoration.
This is what it feels like to be cared for by life itself.
Within this gentleness,
Forgiveness and love appears naturally.
As a truth.
You start finding a beautiful rhythm.
As you feel the gentleness of the air around you.
A loving stillness filled with well-being.
It is wide.
It is gentle.
It keeps watch kindly while you rest.
Your body breathes itself.
Your heart beats easefully.
Everything within you moving towards balance.
Enjoying the freedom to shift into healing and well-being.
Letting go of the last thought.
There is only quiet.
There is only rest.
You are safe.
Enjoying the release.
The freedom.
Wishes you blessings.
Restoration,
Love and peace.
As you drift now.
Feeling the freedom.
The happiness rising.
Everything within you moving towards balance.
Joy.
