This gentle sleep talkdown.
Has been created to help you drift into a quiet and relaxing sleep.
Just settle into a comfortable position.
As you would normally do before sleep.
Close your eyes.
Feel your breathing.
Let your focus simply be on the inhale.
And exhale of your breath.
With each inhalation.
Perceive a warmth and a calm entering your lungs.
Let the warmth begin to permeate your whole body.
Gently spreading down and down.
Think of the warmth as a softness that eases your muscles your head.
Seems to settle more deeply onto the pillow.
Any stiffness or tension.
Slowly melts away.
Your arms and chest feel calm and easy.
This feeling of softness,
Of relaxation.
Travels down to your hips.
Then your thighs.
And down to your feet.
Your muscles loosen.
Cradled by the bed.
Now.
Just listen to the wind.
As it blows across the land.
While you rest.
Comfortable.
And safe.
And cosy.
Feel yourself begin to drift lightly.
Like a leaf letting go in an autumn breeze.
That carries you softly through gentle,
Kindly air.
You are lied.
Yet cradled and supported by the wind.
There is no resistance.
No need to think of anything but the endless moments of calmness.
Allow your mind and body to release any thoughts or worries.
You are weightless.
Floating freely.
All tension gone.
You drift softly through the quiet autumn countryside.
The trees seem to glow with their fall colours,
Yellow,
Bronze and red.
In the cottages.
People work in their gardens.
Deer graze on the edges of the woods.
Faint wood smoke and the scent of autumn is in the air.
A flock of geese passes overhead.
The sound of their cries gradually fading.
But you simply drift into the calm of the day.
Now you are thistle down.
So light it flows on the thinnest air currents.
You are touched by summer sunlight and the light glows like a halo around you.
You float above meadowlands dotted with flowers in the distance.
Would it hills rise?
Fenced by the sky.
The air holds you,
Safe and secure.
The sun warmed you.
Any tension that may remain within the core of your muscles.
Is dissolving away.
You are light and loose in the warmth of the air.
You float toward a clear river,
Winding through the meadowlands.
Willows arch over the banks.
Doubling their leaves in the water.
The gentle current flows over a gravel bed.
Where the sun strikes it.
It sparkles like gemstones.
Slowly,
You descend to the river,
Becoming like the trailing leaves of the water plants,
That only grow in such clear water.
The flow of the water draws away worries the roots of the plant anchor you.
Letting you float within timelessness.
The clean water softly moves your leaves and stems,
It is a soothing presence,
Constant and gentle.
It supports you as you drift.
Feel the tranquility of the river,
Its timeless flow easing you into a deeper state of relaxation.
Your body is completely relaxed.
Your mind at peace.
There is nothing you need to do.
Nowhere you need to be.
This time is just for you to rest and drift.
Like a leaf on the wind.
Like the thistle down.
Like a water plant in the current.
Permit yourself to sink deeper into this feeling of calm.
Feel the weight of your body melting away.
Remaining tension dissolving.
You are safe.
You are at peace.
You are drifting gently into a deep restful sleep.
Let the soothing sounds of the wind and the water carry you deeper in rest.
Surrender everything.
To this state of sublime relaxation and drift further into the embrace of sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep.
Sleep.
