Essential Sleep I'm going to be guiding you into a beautiful meditation that takes you into a sacred bedroom within your heart and I'm going to teach you a few techniques ways that you can connect in with this imagery and this experience so that you can get to sleep at any time day or night that you need to.
So now all you need to do is to rest yourself back comfortably,
Close your eyes and for the next 10 minutes I will be guiding you toward an inner bedroom and I'll be making some suggestions to you that you can use again when you need to get yourself to sleep.
So just closing your eyes and connecting in with your breathing.
Taking in a few nice deep breaths.
That's good.
Breathing in a sense of calmness and relaxation and breathing away the tiredness and the stresses and I'd like you just to place your palms of your hands facing upwards and focus in on your fingertips and you might notice as you focus in on the fingertips a tingling sensation and so just giving yourself as much time as you need now just allowing for that tingling feeling in your fingertips and I'd like you just to keep your attention on that tingling sensation and as you feel that you know that you're bringing your attention inwards that you're focusing within and ready to take that inner journey to a beautiful bedroom where you can sleep peacefully and calmly.
A sanctuary.
So as you feel that tingling feeling just see how far that can move through your fingers into the palms of your hands and notice is it easier for you to focus on both hands at once or one at a time.
So just choose what works best for you.
Relaxing tingling feeling that's warm and comforting.
Connecting you with an inner calmness and peace.
A place to sleep.
So now I'd like you to imagine there's a warm feeling in your heart and so as you focus in on the area of your heart I'd like you to imagine that that is the doorway that opens and leads into this very beautiful and sacred bedroom within your heart.
And so get a sense of what the texture or what the doorway is like.
Notice the color.
If it has a door handle does it push open easily and can you step inside.
And so as you step inside now you enter into a very beautiful room and it's an inner chamber of your heart.
And so as you make your way into that room now you can look over and you can see the most beautiful comfortable bed and you can make your way over noticing again the colors and the textures,
The fabric,
How this bedroom appears to you.
And so I'd like you just to allow that to build and create in its own way a beautiful sensual room.
It's your private bedroom,
Your sanctuary and so I'd like you to climb into that bed resting your head back on the pillow and feel that as you rest your head back and your body just heavy resting back there comfortably supported.
And as you sink into that lovely feeling of tiredness,
Surrendering to sleep,
There comes to your mind a word or a phrase that is just what you need to hear to support you at this time to nurture you,
To embrace you in that beautiful protective feeling that it's time and it's okay for you to fall into that beautiful sleep.
And so you can think that word and hear it whispered into your ear as you rest back closing your eyes resting your head back on the pillow.
It's a beautiful luxurious feeling surrendering into sleep easily and naturally.
And so you can sleep easily and comfortably until it's time for you to wake again.
Until it's time for you to wake again you can just sleep there and even if that sleep is just for five or ten minutes it can seem like a lot longer.
It can seem like hours,
Hours of beautiful restful sleep uninterrupted.
And as you sleep in your sacred bedroom you sleep at a very deep level.
Your body is nourished,
The muscles rejuvenated,
Your emotions calm and you connect into those beautiful feelings of love.
Love for your child,
For your baby,
Love for yourself and that feeling and experience of love is what nourishes you and everyone.
And so as you sleep deeply in this beautiful way your body is nourished,
Your mind is calm,
Your emotions soft and your dreams positive,
Sweet dreams.
And so you can think your word in your mind a word that can connect you again to this loving bedroom,
The experience profound for you.
And so you can think that word and you can focus on your fingertips the tingling sensation in your fingertips and you're connecting at a very deep level.
Connecting with your physical sensation the tingling sensation in your fingertips with your word and this beautiful image and experience,
Positive nourishing.
And so as you connect in with that now this is something that you can connect in again whenever you need to at any time of the day or night when you need to get some rest or get some sleep.
All you have to do is to connect in again with this word.
Focus in on your heart and feel the tingling feeling in your fingertips.
And as you focus in you will automatically fall into a very beautiful deep sleep and you can trust that each time that you come to practice this way of getting to sleep it becomes easier and easier for you.
And you can sleep well,
Nourished and ready for any activity.
And coming from that heart space coming from your feelings of love,
Unconditional love for yourself,
For your child,
For everyone in your life.
And so that sleep within your sleep,
The bedroom within your bedroom,
The bedroom within your heart you can connect in again wherever you are,
Wherever you sleep.
All you have to do is to position yourself comfortably.
Close your eyes,
Connect in with your breathing,
Take in a few deep breaths to begin with.
That's right.
And then focus again on the fingertips until you can feel the tingling sensation and that just lets you know that you're bringing your thoughts within,
Your orientation within and that automatically as you focus in on your word,
Repeating your word in your mind,
Allowing for images to come to your mind of your sacred bedroom resting there comfortably.
That's all that you need to do and automatically you will fall into a beautiful deep sleep and you will wake up when you're needed,
When you need to.
But this is a way that you can fall asleep whenever you need to.
And so in this way you're building a very strong mind-body connection that will enable you to sleep whenever you want to.
So giving yourself some time for that to really penetrate deeply into your psyche.
That this is a wonderful tool that you can use whenever you need to get to sleep.
So those times when you are lying there,
You wake up and you can go back to sleep,
Instead of just lying there,
Focus in on your word,
The sensation in your fingertips,
Allowing for images to come to your mind of your beautiful heart bedroom and automatically you'll fall asleep into a very beautiful nourishing sleep.
And so now I'd like you just to bring that back feeling confident in yourself that this is a tool that you can use whenever you need to.
And you might find sometimes that your bedroom appears to you in a different way and that's okay.
The main thing is that you have that word that you can focus on,
The tingling feeling in your fingertips and your body will take care of the rest.
You'll automatically fall asleep and you'll wake up when you need to or you can set the alarm if you need to.
Giving yourself a tool to be able to enter into a peaceful sleep whenever you need to.
So just making your way back now,
Coming back through the opening of your heart.
It's important just to take your time.
Taking in a nice deep breath again,
Coming back to the area of your heart and just resting your attention there.
Getting a sense of coming back and orientating to the here and now.
Finding it easy to connect back with your body.
Wriggling your fingers,
Having a bit of a stretch and when you hear the chimes just coming back opening your eyes feeling refreshed and ready for your activities.
