Guided meditation for deep sleep

When we haven’t slept well for a while, it shows. Everything is balled up for us. Even the simplest and most mundane things are lazy and seem like huge mountains of endless work. For life to be pleasant for us, it is important to sleep and do it well.

If you want to introduce the habit of meditation into your day to day, one of the best moments is Meditate just before going to sleep. Also, whether or not you rest well at night, doing a meditation will make you enjoy great benefits. In this video you can follow the guided meditation to sleep deeply, although I recommend that you read the information on how to meditate to sleep before delving into it.

Meditate to sleep: why it helps

To begin with, you will say goodbye to the day connected with yourself and with your body. Thanks to conscious breathing, you will help your body activate the parasympathetic nervous system and this will allow you to lower tension and heart rate. Little by little you will abandon worries and your rest will be deeper and more restful because you will not fall asleep with tense muscles.

Meditation before going to sleep is like a children’s bedtime story. It serves to invite our brain to understand that the day is over, that it can relax because you are safe at home and ready to rest.

How to meditate to sleep well

Along with meditation it is very important to have other good habits in our evening routine. Stop working for a long time before going to sleep, turn off electronic devices, put on our pajamas, prepare a light dinner, create a relaxed atmosphere at home, read for a while, etc. All these ingredients will help us rest better.

Furthermore, in this meditation We will put Jacobson’s Progressive Body Relaxation into practice. This relaxation is one of the best known. It was created by Doctor Jacobson in 1929 and it is about tensing and relaxing muscle groups. I will guide you during the meditation exercise. You will see that it is very simple and highly effective.

Do you know when you’re stressed that you can feel like your muscles are tense? In general, we can notice it especially in the cervicals or shoulders. This technique is based precisely on that: there are certain thoughts and situations related to stress that cause muscle tension. With Jacobson’s Progressive Body Relaxation we tense the muscles expressly, we become aware of the muscular tension and then we relax it and get rid of stress.

Voice Guided Sleep Meditation

If you find that one day you are too tired to put on a meditation, you could also do a short and very useful exercise. Simply, mentally thank three things that you have experienced that day. Give thanks for three lessons or experiences you don’t want them to miss. You can also do the exercise and then put on the meditation or vice versa. Be that as it may, try to have an act of love and care towards yourself every night.

Before doing the meditation, check the temperature of your room. For example, if you think you’re going to be cold, go get an extra blanket or, if you think you’re going to be hot, open a window. This will help you rest better. I recommend Do this meditation just before going to sleep. If you sleep with someone else, ask the person next to you to do the meditation together. If you can, download the entire meditation and then put your device in airplane mode. This way, if you do fall asleep during the meditation, you don’t have to worry. Even if you do the meditation on your mobile device, try not to look at it when you’re done. Try not to use screens an hour before bedtime and up to an hour after you get up. If you feel like it, it can be rewarding do meditation with headphones. You will feel the most enveloping sound and you will be able to better isolate yourself from the outside. But if you think you are going to fall asleep, better do the meditation without headphones.Lie on your bed face up. Let this meditation be the last thing you do in your day. If during the meditation you need to move, go ahead. If you are uncomfortable, please move into a more comfortable position with gentle movements.Put some essential oil in the diffuser or some incense. For rest I recommend lavender or tangerine essential oils. Lavender will help you relax and sleep. Tangerine will help you relax the tension accumulated throughout the day. Before doing the meditation you could shower with hot water to help relax. I also invite you to give yourself a gentle massage with cream or oil. Then, lie down in bed with the room completely dark or with some dim light, such as a salt lamp. You will also notice that at the end of the meditation I suggest you think about what you would like to dream about that night: a person , an animal, a situation, a place, an adventure, etc. When the mind and body are already calm, just before falling asleep, it is a good time to schedule dreams. You will tell me if, indeed, your dreams have gone where you wanted. Allow yourself to relax your body, your mind and your soul to dream long, beautiful and tended.Good night!