Earth Medicine Sleep Meditation

In this sleep meditation, connect with the energy of the earth element to help you cleanse any unhelpful energy, find support and relaxation, and meet the unconditional love that earth is a conduit for. Use this meditation if you are feeling stressed, anxious, ungrounded, or simply need a nice way to help you drift off into a restful sleep.

Transcript

Welcome to this guided meditation for sleep,

Where we will invite and call upon the eternally supportive and loving medicine of the earth element.

This is especially helpful if you've been feeling stressed,

Confused,

Insecure,

Lost,

Scared,

Or otherwise just ungrounded.

If you haven't already,

Take a moment to get settled.

Move your body if you need to.

Fidget.

Get as comfortable as you can for your rest.

As you notice what you're feeling in your body,

You might find pockets of nervous energy,

Perhaps in your hands,

Your legs,

Or your jaw.

Take a deep breath and soften into those places if you can.

If it helps,

You could also tense up those places,

One at a time,

Scrunching them up and then fully releasing.

Feel free to do that a couple of times if it feels like the right thing right now.

Now take a moment to acknowledge the land that you are on,

The earth that is right beneath your body.

Consider your relationship with this land,

And perhaps the people who were here before you.

Your relationship with land is historical,

Cultural,

And also immediate.

Your body receives and experiences the season,

The temperature,

The phase of the moon,

The quality of light,

The presence of the seasonal flora and fauna where you are.

Remember yourself as a part of the web of everything.

Check in with your breath.

A deep breath in and a sigh out may help to signal a shift from your day into the practice of sleep.

Sleep is indeed a practice.

We don't always consider this,

Especially if we don't have any trouble sleeping.

But sometimes,

We need to actually give our bodies permission to sleep.

Especially if we've been feeling stressed or scared,

It may not feel like it's completely safe on some level to surrender to sleep.

So let's begin there.

Acknowledge that you have been feeling anxious,

Nervous,

Unsure,

Confused,

Unwell,

Or maybe just going through a lot lately.

If that's true,

It's okay.

Of course you're feeling a little off in your body.

Of course it's feeling a little bit harder to sleep.

That's okay.

Your body is on your side.

It is always trying to help you.

Right now,

Even as you've made the decision to get ready for bed and go to sleep,

Your nervous system might be feeling that you need to stay awake.

Is there a problem that's bothering you?

A situation you feel needs your attention?

Have you simply not gotten enough done today?

Or is something feeling off in some other way?

Sleep will help with almost everything.

It will help you think more clearly tomorrow.

It will help your body recover.

It will help you see solutions to problems.

Trust your unconscious mind to do its work while you were asleep.

Trust your dreams to take whatever you need to work through and explore the issues there.

You do not need to be awake for any of this work.

Maybe you didn't get everything done today.

Maybe there is something you need to do or fix or address.

But there's only so much time in the day.

And now is the time to sleep,

To rest,

To reset for another day.

Can you release these things right now to your unconscious mind in service of healing sleep?

If you can,

Make that choice.

Trust that the things you need to think about and remember will still be there tomorrow.

Now,

Let's invite the earth to help us release whatever we may not need and settle into rest.

Bring your awareness back to the earth beneath you.

It is ever present,

Wide,

Very old.

It has always held you up.

You are a child of this earth,

Connected within the web of everything that is supported by it.

Imagine yourself surrounded by a circle of protection,

A circle of heavy stones,

The magic in them able to repel,

Transform,

Or absorb any energy that is not yours to process,

That is unhelpful or unsafe for you right now,

Or that is unwanted on any conscious or unconscious level.

You may like to invite your talismans of safety into this circle.

This could be loved ones,

Living or not,

Spirit guides,

Angels,

Pets,

Objects,

Places you love,

Anything that helps you to feel safer that you would like with you right now.

Go ahead and invite it here.

Imagine the energy of the earth,

Eternal,

Loving,

Steady,

Ever present,

Rising up to meet your body where you are.

It is gentle and open,

Only supportive.

Offer this energy,

Gratitude,

And appreciation as you allow it to hold the parts of you that feel most tender right now,

Most difficult to sustain.

Allow yourself to relax into the support of this loving earth energy.

This is capable of taking all kinds of energies and recycling them into something else,

Something useful in some other place.

It is okay to let these things go into the earth beneath you.

The earth is able to take these burdens,

Not because it will hold on to them,

But because it can transform them.

Make whatever it is you need to let go of into an offering for the earth.

Trust that you will release what you do not need.

If there is something you need to keep,

You will keep it.

The earth knows what you must do.

Feel your body settling into this supportive earth energy.

As if you were deepening into a soft mattress,

Each part of your body held and supported right where it is.

Feel your hands and arms relaxing.

Your neck and shoulders letting go.

The space around your eyes,

Your forehead,

Your jaw relaxing,

Knowing that you are safe now,

That you are supported.

That you are okay right here,

Right now.

Feel your body so supported by the earth that all the muscles in your belly can relax and release.

Feel the breath moving freely,

Easily,

No restriction anywhere.

Surrender into the support of the earth beneath you.

This gentle,

Loving earth medicine surrounds you like a magnetic field.

Immediately,

The particles of energy that do not belong in your body shift,

Noticing the field outside of your body.

These particles may have been picked up from other people,

From certain situations or places where you didn't feel totally safe.

These particles may be left over from the process your body is always doing to detoxify your system and heal your inner and outer wounds.

These molecules begin to spin and vibrate,

Suddenly aware that they are not where they belong.

With love and patience,

The earth energy surrounding your body draws these atoms out through your pores,

Painlessly releasing this energy from your body into the earth energy that surrounds you and the physical earth beneath you.

Each particle is surrounded by love,

The universal love energy for which the earth is a conduit.

They are returning to source,

To become whatever it is they could be if they did not have to live in your body.

They do not belong to you,

They are going home.

Allow the earth medicine to gently cleanse your body of anything unhelpful,

Anything foreign,

Anything that is not yours.

Feel it leaving,

Becoming something else on its way to fit somewhere better.

Notice the warmth of the universal love energy that the earth is a conduit for.

Not belonging to anyone,

Simply present at all times,

An energy that can be tapped into immediately.

The universal love energy is yours to connect to.

As you remember it,

And as it remembers you,

Your body immediately understands how to realign,

What to let go of,

How to heal itself,

Cleanse itself,

And support your growth into who you want to be.

Simply receive this energy.

There's nothing you need to do,

But remember and feel this energy.

Allow yourself to bathe in this loving,

Healing earth energy and the support of its universal love.

Allow the parts of you that are thirsty for this connection to drink deeply at the endless well of love that is available to you here.

Allow your body to rest.

Feel your body relaxing more deeply into the support beneath you.

Thank the earth energy for resting with you,

And allow yourself to stay here,

Held as long as you need to.

Thank your talismans of safety,

The circle of protection.

Receive needed rest and sleep as you reconnect with this earth energy that was always yours.

Rest sweetly and well.

Goodnight.

Reviews

The best so eye opening thank you.

Beautiful, calming, relaxing, reassuring. Thank you dear Julie 🙏🌿🌏

A beautiful invitation to surrender to and trust the earth. Great respect for kicking off with an acknowledgment of the land’s cultural and spiritual heritage. This! 🙏☺️☮️

This meditation left me feeling very supported, safe and reassured. It didn’t make me much sleepier but the vibes were very good.

Beautifully grounding and calming. Thank you for a soothing end to my day 🙏🌱🌻

Thank you. I feel seen and validated and less alone.