You didn't choose it, you don’t deserve it, but here we are, awake in the middle of the night. This soothing practice with Michelle allows you to shift from the frustration of this situation into a place where you feel supported, safe and able to rest. Allow Michelle to guide you into a space of calm, helping you to rest your mind and slip back into slumber. Michelle leverages current neuroscience to help deal with the default mode of brain function that can occur when we wake up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep. Default mode happens in the brain whenever we're not engaged in a task, and it causes us to hunt for problems either in past experiences or potential future ones. This is a survival strategy, once useful but perhaps not this evening. Michelle draws on helpful, tried and tested imagery used for years in countless other meditations on sleep. Note: This practice can be especially powerful when done with the Ten Day Course: Ten Days to Deeper Meditation.