Welcome to part three of the pack to a better sleep.
I think everybody has been told the importance of not going to sleep without resolving an argument with your partner.
When you're first told this it seems silly.
When you're in the middle of a mini argument with your partner at night it just seems very difficult to fix.
Just easier to turn your back to them.
However,
With more and more research we are now seeing that well if you go to sleep angry,
Well you're going to wake up angry.
If you go to sleep worried,
Again the worries will still be there in the morning.
So by definition if you go to sleep happy,
Well of course you're going to wake up happy.
I know this sounds way too simple.
However,
Sometimes things are just simple.
Modern society just loves to complicate issues.
So how does this affect your sleep?
Well emotion is a very powerful emotion.
And depending on the emotion you're experiencing right now can either fuel your sleep issues or calm them down.
And don't get me wrong,
All emotions are good.
Anger is a good emotion.
Fear is a good emotion.
Sadness is a good emotion.
Happiness,
Well another good emotion.
We assume we're supposed to be happy all the time.
And well that's just not correct.
Each emotion is good once it's being experienced appropriately.
Feeling angry that you just won the lotto is not an appropriate emotion.
Sadness at a job promotion,
Well that's something that's not right.
A simple exercise is to look at the emotion you're feeling right now.
Fear,
Sadness,
Happiness,
Anger.
And see is this emotion appropriate for the current situation?
Or is this a pattern response that I'm experiencing daily?
And do remember,
Angry people live in an angry world.
Sad people live in a sad world.
Fearful people live in a fearful world.
And again,
Happy people will live in a very happy world.
It's the same world for all of us.
It's just how we decide to see it.
So let's begin.
With your eyes closed,
You can begin to relax.
And it's okay at first.
You may be more aware of some things that you were before.
Maybe sounds in the room,
The sound of my voice,
Sensations in the body as you begin to relax.
Thoughts and images that drift into your mind over the next few minutes.
So for a moment,
Take in a deep,
Deep breath.
Holding for a moment in your time.
Holding for a moment in space.
A time of calmness of mind.
Time to create a new pattern for an amazing sleep pattern.
Over time,
In your time.
I would like you to go on a count of 1 to 10 in your mind.
Breathing in,
Then breathing out.
In this time,
In this space.
As we work to improve,
Enhance,
Support your ability to sleep better.
Happier,
Deeper and deeper.
Because with the eyes closed,
It becomes easier and easier to become more and more aware of those thoughts in the mind.
Of things that otherwise would go overlooked or just maybe ignored during the day.
That sometimes arrive and disappear at night.
Where at night,
A time for many to sleep.
Just allowing the thoughts to flow.
In and out,
As you relax more and more.
As you relax deeper and deeper.
Slower and slower.
As the mind relaxes more and more over the next few minutes.
The next few hours.
The next few days.
As you see how sleep is just part of the normal cycle of life.
Where it sometimes disconnects from its natural cycle.
To sleep.
To recharge.
To enjoy the time and space for your mind.
To sleep.
Thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations.
And the movement of awareness of the calm mind.
Begins to experience that gradual letting go of thoughts.
Letting go of feelings and sensations.
And again of course it may not be until the second or third time that you realize how much better you're sleeping right now.
And remember everybody experiences calmness of mind in different ways.
For you,
It's about finding your calmness of mind,
Your calmness of body.
Taking in another deep,
Deep breath.
Holding for a moment and releasing in your time.
With each and every breath,
Accessing the unconscious mind.
Which supports your ability to relearn how to sleep deeper and deeper.
Recharging mind and body.
As with calmness of mind comes a calmness of body.
Letting go of the effort it takes to be aware of exactly what it is that it is in the mind.
That's affecting your ability to sleep.
Taking in a deep,
Deep breath.
Holding for a moment.
Again in your time.
Again in your space of calmness.
To allow the pattern of a new and better sleep to develop over time.
Where it may not be until the second or third night you realize how better you feel.
How easier it has become for you to improve your sleep.
In your time.
In your space.
It takes time to experience that letting go of what the mind experiences which is in time which you allow to let go.
Your own time in your own way.
As you begin to notice even more than before.
Notice the power to relax.
The power in you to let go.
And the mind begins to flow slowly down towards the place of calmness of mind.
Place of calmness of body.
A place in the mind of effortless relaxation and letting go.
Where even the effort it takes to be aware of the sound of my voice may almost seem too much effort to bother hearing.
Right now,
Relaxing deeper and deeper.
Thoughts coming and going slowly.
It's so,
So much easier for the calm mind to be able to relax and to enjoy that drifting down.
Into that place of calmness and quiet.
Calmness of mind.
A quiet and calm body.
That's right.
The unconscious mind can allow the drifting to occur.
Where the conscious mind drifts off someplace else entirely right now.
As I count from five to one.
Five.
Allowing the calmness of mind.
Four.
Supporting the calmness of body.
Three.
Releasing any thoughts.
Two.
Releasing the mind.
One.
Sleep.
