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Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast
Get Sleepy In A French Parfumerie | Guided Sleep Hypnosis
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Jessica Porter
Hi, I'm Jessica Porter and welcome back to Sleep Magic, a podcast where I help you find the magic of your own mind, helping you to sleep better and live better. Thank you everybody for being here. I really appreciate your listening and showing up and exploring relaxation in your own lives because it really works. It's like this deep superpower that we all have and that is worth exploring. You know, like, I'm never going to.
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Tyler
Run a marathon, let alone an ultra.
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Jessica Porter
Marathon, but technically my body is equipped.
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Tyler
To do it, but it's just not going to happen.
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Jessica Porter
But I think relaxation is like the opposite of a marathon. It's like exploring ourselves in the un.
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Tyler
Marathon way and we are all equipped to do it and it is really valuable.
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Jessica Porter
So not only thanks for listening, thanks for giving us feedback, and I just want to say I've been looking at the reviews that were recently written on Audible and I don't see them all the time. So I just want to give a shout out to some of our Audible listeners. Like Instaciable, Great name Instagiable has been recovering from surgery and experiencing some hormonal changes, and she says that Sleep Magic has really, really helped. Sherry has ADHD and used to have a really hard time falling asleep, but now has no idea what happens five.
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Tyler
Minutes into any episode. Great.
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Jessica Porter
That means I'm doing my job. Someone named Tee Bundy who listens to Sleep Magic and all other sleepy Type podcasts at 0.7 speed so slowed down, says that even when she thinks this isn't going to work tonight, the next.
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Tyler
Thing she knows, she's waking up in the morning.
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Jessica Porter
So I love that. And Jada, who is 10 years old, who didn't like going to sleep before Sleep Magic, but that has all changed with this podcast. So shout out to all of you. Also to a listener named Josette. Thank you for listening, thanks for writing, and I appreciate you all. If anyone wants to subscribe, please consider doing that. You get 50% more content, access to the back catalog, and no ads. So please consider that. Hey Sleep Magic listeners, you. You know that on Sleep Magic we explore things like anxiety, stress, and loss because those real life challenges don't just disappear when the day ends. And while sleep hypnosis and meditation can be deeply healing, there are times when what we're facing calls for a different kind of support. Someone trained to help talk us through what's going on. And that's where Rula comes in. Therapy has been part of my own journey, and I know how powerful it is to feel truly heard and supported. So Whether you're going through something specific or just feeling a little stuck, having the right person to talk to can make all the difference. And Rula makes it easy to find a therapist who gets you. You just answer a few quick questions and they'll match you with licensed therapists who meet your needs and take your insurance. Most Rula members pay as little as $15 a session and you could book your first appointment as early as this week. Thousands of people are already using RULA to support their mental health, so if therapy's been on your mind, this could be the nudge you need. So head on over to rula.com sleepmagic to get started today. After you sign up, they'll ask you where you heard about them. So please support our show and tell them our show sent you. Go to r-u l a.com sleepmagic and take your first step towards better mental health today. You deserve quality care from someone who cares. Hey Sleep Magic listeners. We talk a lot about rest, movement and mindfulness, but let's be real financial stress can undo all that calm in a heartbeat. That's why I switched to Mint Mobile. They offer premium wireless for just $15 a month for your first three months with fast data, unlimited talk and text, and coverage on the nation's largest 5G network. I came from one of the big three carriers and I've been genuinely impressed. I kept my phone and number and even when I travel, Mint makes it easy to stay connected with simple, affordable add ons. This year, skip breaking a sweat and breaking the bank. Get your summer savings and shop premium Wireless plans@mintmobile.com SleepMagic that's mintmobile.com SleepMagic Upfront payment of $45 for 3 month 5 gigabyte plan required equivalent to $15 a month New customer offer for first 3 months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See Mint Mobile for details.
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Tyler
Sleep is important, but so is how you wake up.
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Jessica Porter
If you want to start your day with a little more intention, Wake Me up is the podcast for you. It's like a warm cup of tea for your mind. Here's a taste.
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Lunet
Hey there my friend. Welcome to Wake Me Up. This is the place to start your day on a positive note. Taking some time for yourself first thing in the morning to clear, calm and focus your mind can have profound impacts on not only your day, but your entire life. So join me Tyler, your host here on Wake Me Up. Each and every day you'll find a variety of episodes from affirmations to Meditations to motivational talks. Truly, there's something for everyone. So just search for Wake Me up in your favorite podcast player and see why millions of people are living better days in and lives with Wake Me Up.
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Tyler
Great.
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Jessica Porter
Tonight, get sleepy in a French parfumerie or perfumery.
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Tyler
Spoiler alert.
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Jessica Porter
You will have to deal with my French accent sometimes. Tonight, a listener named Melissa suggested this episode and I thought, I love that idea. In fact, when I was a teenager, I was taken on a tour of a perfumery in the small town of Grasse in the south of France. It was a very memorable experience. And now, many years later, with little help from the Internet, I can bring.
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Tyler
Us all there tonight.
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Jessica Porter
So lean back, relax, and we will have a lovely sensory experience in the south of France. So get yourself into a safe and comfortable position. And let's begin.
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Tyler
So allow your eyes to close easily and gently.
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Jessica Porter
If you want to take that nice.
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Tyler
Deep breath with me, please do. As you bring your awareness now to your breathing.
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Jessica Porter
And you don't need to do anything.
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Tyler
Interesting or fancy with your breath because right now we're just bringing our awareness to the breath.
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Jessica Porter
This is a way of hijacking or reeling in your awareness.
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Tyler
Your awareness loves to just move around, explore, jump like it's a kid in a playground. And we're just gently inviting it back to the breath, gently inviting it back to the body. Good. So now I'd like you to bring.
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Jessica Porter
Your awareness up a bit from your.
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Tyler
Breath into your eyes, specifically into your eyelids. And imagine that your eyelids are feeling very, very sleepy, heavy relaxed. And the nice thing about the imagination is once you start imagining things, the body follows. So as you imagine your eyelids getting heavy and relaxed, they're becoming heavy and relaxed. And now I'd like you to imagine.
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Jessica Porter
That your eyelids are so heavy and.
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Tyler
Relaxed they won't open. And then I want you now to test your eyelids to make sure they won't open. And that means wiggling your eyebrows. And I need you to pretend they won't open. I know you could open them, but we're pretending. By pretending really strongly, we're entering your imagination and that's where we want to be tonight. So pretending that your eyelids won't open, I want you to test them by.
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Jessica Porter
Wiggling your eyebrows, just to give them a tug.
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Tyler
Good. Well done. As you go deeper and deeper and deeper and you find that your head is becoming heavy on the pillow, heavy like a rock on the pillow. And that wonderful relaxation that you had in your eyelids lets imagine it's spilling back into your brain. So it's taking over your brain like a weird mist. And everything in your brain is becoming soft and even a little fuzzy in a good way. And the muscles of your face are also becoming soft and relaxed as you go deeper and deeper. And this lovely heaviness in your head is moving down into your shoulders, into your arms, down into your arms. Imagine your arms are heavy, like they too are made of stone. Just for right now, imagine your arms are made of stone. And let them be heavy. Heavy. It feels nice to let go of the day, to let go of any excess tension you may have been carrying as you take yourself deeper and deeper. And the sound of my voice is taking you deeper and deeper. And all of the sounds going on around you and your environment.
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Jessica Porter
Are taking.
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Tyler
You deeper and deeper because they're just vibrations. As you allow them to simply move through your body, they're taking you deeper. And at some point, as you're listening tonight, perhaps it's already happened. My voice will seem far away in the distance in the background as you drift and float and dream. And that wonderful mist of relaxation up in your head is moving down now into your chest, softening and opening and releasing your chest, spiraling inside of you, the relaxation deep in your body, moving down as a mist, moving down now through your torso, now deep into your belly as it spirals and circulates and softens you from the inside out. And any muscles you may hold unconsciously during the day are letting go. And the muscles of your back or letting go as your pelvis feels heavy on the bed. Your buttocks are relaxing. And the relaxation is moving down into your legs. Now down deep into your legs, so that your legs are feeling heavy. Heavy like they are made of stone, as you take yourself deeper and deeper. And it feels so nice to let go. Imagine it is a warm late afternoon and you are in the small town of Glass in France. Perched in the hills above the French Riviera, this historic town is known as the world capital of perfume. And the air itself seems to shimmer with scent. You are walking down a winding cobblestone street, past ochred colored buildings, their shutters flung open to reveal flower laden balconies spilling over with jasmine, lavender and roses. The higher you walk in this little town, the better. You can see the sparkling Mediterranean Sea just off in the distance. Although France is now the center of the perfume trade, it did not arrive here until 1533. When Catherine de Medici, at the tender age of 14, came from Italy to marry the equally young King Henry ii. She brought to France, her personal perfumer, Drinato Bianco, who created her signature fragrances. As you continue to stroll beyond the town center, you arrive at rolling fields of blossoms stretching toward the horizon.
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Jessica Porter
You see rose de May.
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Tyler
Their soft, pack pink petals shimmering in the light. These May roses are hybrids originally developed in Holland, but now grown mostly in France, particularly in this region, and harvested in May. You come to a gorgeous, wide open rose blossom. It seems to have a thousand petals, and as you lean in to take a whiff, its rosy scent seems to jump out at you. The roses of May are prized for their unique scent and are used in perfumes and soaps and other scented products. You look up and see rows of lavender swaying like purple waves in the wind. Their color is so bright and powerful, it excites your brain. And then there are vines of jasmine covered in tiny white star shaped blossoms, their aroma thick and intoxicating. And here and there, you see bees flitting between the blossoms, adding their own happy hum to the symphony of nature. A farmer walks by, carefully plucking the blossoms by hand and placing them in a burlap bag. Thousands of freshly picked petals are needed to create just a single drop of essential oil. By the 17th century, perfume had become very popular in France, and very necessary considering the lack of running water for bathing. The court of King Louis XIV sprayed itself with so many exotic sense that it was known as the Perfumed Court or La Coule Parfumet. You arrive at a grand wooden door with gilded lettering that reads Maison the Parfum. You step inside and the scent of citrus, vanilla and delicate florals envelops you. You are in the main room of the perfumery, the boutique, and it is bathed in golden light, filtering through lace curtained windows. Glass shelves and wooden cabinets line the walls, each displaying elegant flacon delicate bottles filled with amber, sapphire and rose hued elixirs. Crystal decanters stand proudly containing pure rose du maille, tuberose and violet absolutes, their floral essence captured in shimmering liquid. The decanters bear handwritten labels, each one a work of art in itself. The ancient Egyptians believed that scents could guide souls into the afterlife, so the tombs of the pharaohs contained beautiful perfume jars made from alabaster. Legend has it that Cleopatra spritzed her palace with intoxicating floral perfumes to enchant lovers like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. You lift a small paper blotter, dip it into a cobalt blue bottle and inhale. A delightful mix of citrus and jasmine unfolds, transporting you to a sunlit garden. As you go deeper and deeper.
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Jessica Porter
A.
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Tyler
Door opens into the perfume laboratory, the atelier, where a master perfumer known as Linnay, French for nose, is at work. He is slim and graceful, dressed in all white, and wears wire rimmed spectacles over his expert nose and French moustache. In the atelier, shelves are lined with amber glass bottles holding thousands of raw materials, from exotic resins to rare florals, from tonka bean to iris root. The first recorded perfumer was named Taputi, a female chemist from Babylon who did her work over 3,000 years ago. She distilled flowers, resins and oils with water and solvents, creating some of the early perfume making techniques that laid the foundation for modern perfumery. At his wooden blending table, tiny vials are arranged in meticulous order. Lunet dips a blotter into a vial labeled Bergamot de Calabre, swirls it and inhales deeply, closing his eyes in concentration. He has trained his amazing nose, spent years in fragrant schools, studying chemistry, botany and olfactory science. Over time, he has developed his scent memory and now has the ability to identify innumerable compounds and to imagine how they might interact with one another. He has been an apprentice to more experienced noses and is mentoring some younger ones. Now he is both a scientist and an artist, a connoisseur and a creator. He gestures for you to try. Handing you a glass pipette, you mix a few drops of rose absolute vanilla bean extract and a whisper of ambergris, a perfume taking its first breath. This will mature over time, he says with a knowing smile. Just like wine, perfume needs to age. You take a sniff. You too have a nose designed to explore the world of smell. Until recently, scientists believe that the human nose could detect an impressive tens of thousands of smells. But a study conducted in 2014 determined that our noses have the ability to detect one trillion different scents. One trillion. As you go deeper and deeper, Lunae leads you through an arched stone doorway, and you enter the distillation room, where copper stills gleam in the dim light. Baskets overflow with freshly harvested jasmine, orange blossoms and roses of May, their scents filling the air with heady sweetness. Some scents are extracted through steam distillation, a process invented by a Persian physician, Avicenna, a great genius who was born just before the first millennium. By applying steam to blossoms, perfumers could extract essential oils from the more delicate types like rose and jasmine. Over time, the Middle east became a major hub for the perfume trade, importing exotic ingredients like sandalwood, ambergris and musk. You watch as Rose petals swirl in a copper still, their essence condensing drop by drop into a small vial, the purest form of scent imaginable. In the next room, you come across large stainless steel vats filled with aromatic elixirs. Vanilla pods and tonka beans are soaking in alcohol to release their deep, creamy fragrances. This is a technique called maceration, similar to the aging of wine, and it allows individual scents to unify with others, creating a seamless aroma. You return to the boutique and notice that the sun has set and warm, glowing lights have been turned on. All the glass shelves and crystal decanters are sparkling, reflecting and refracting the light. Before leaving the maison de parfum, you select a bespoke perfume blended just for you. It contains your favorite scents blended together perfectly. The bottle is sealed with wax stamped with the perfumery's emblem and a final spritz. A fragrant mist lingers in the air as you step back onto the cobblestone street, carrying with you the memory of this small town, timeless artistry. The air is cool now and the stars are twinkling above in the midnight blue sky. Everywhere is the scent of night blooming jasmine. After a short stroll, you arrive at your inn, which overlooks a cobblestone square. You go up to the second floor and unlock the door with an antique key. Your bed has a wrought iron frame and a handmade quilt. Next to the bed is a vase full of May roses. The window overlooks the square and below it is a window box full of flowers, petunias and geraniums. You take a sniff. You put the little bottle of your bespoke perfume on the table next to your be, and you get under the covers between the sheets, so cool and clean. The moon is rising over the square, over the hills and making the Mediterranean sparkle. You turn off the lights, close your eyes as you take yourself deeper and even deeper as you drift and float and dream.