← Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast
Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast
Get Sleepy On A Yacht In Indonesia | Soothing Sleep Hypnosis
00:59:48
Loading summary
Transcript5 lines
- [00:12]
A
Hi, everyone, 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. Merry Christmas, everyone. Thank you all for being here. This episode is dropping on Christmas Eve, and I just want to send some holiday cheer to anyone who might be celebrating around this time and to everyone who isn't. Obviously, there are lots of people who don't do Christmas, so I thought I would make tonight's episode a luxurious vacation that had nothing to do with the holidays, but to which we are all invited. So tonight, get sleepy on a yacht in Indonesia. Okay, so how did we get here? Well, I have a friend named Bill and he loves a good hotel. He's a big traveler and has been to a lot of them. Most of them I cannot afford. Well, I was hanging out with Bill the other day and I asked him what his favorite hotel in the world was, and I was expecting an answer. Something along the lines of what I've heard before, like the Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons or the Waldorf. And he said the Amman in Bali. Well, thank goodness for Google, because within seconds I was looking at the most exquisite resort in Bali, tucked into the side of a mountain. Just the type of place Bill would end up on his adventures. And as I continued to search, I noticed that the Amman Hotel Group also owns a yacht or two that sail around the islands. They're like luxury hotels on the water. And when I say yacht, I don't mean the big motorboats we think of. The Amandira is a traditional Indonesian two masted wooden sailing vessel called a Pinisi, with a teak deck and beautiful warm interior. Just the type of vessel that looks like a gem on the sea and reflects all the natural beauty around it. So every once in a while, I write a podcast about a place I've never been or something I've never done, which takes me down a whole research rabbit hole into history and videos and blogs in order to stitch together the experience. And the research is as fun as the trip itself might be. Well, almost. So tonight, let's go to Indonesia, and if you celebrate Christmas, I'm sure Santa will find you there on the Amandira. Before we begin, our only ad break which makes this magic possible to listen ad free, follow the link in the show notes. One thing we talk about all the time on Sleep Magic is setting up a routine that supports rest. So when I started my holiday gift shopping this year, I thought, why not give people something that helps them unwind every single night. And that's why Quince Bedding has become my go to gift. It's soft, crafted to last and made from beautiful materials like European flax, linen, organic cotton and bamboo viscose. And honestly, the linen sheets have been one of the best gifts I've given myself this year. They're soft and they keep the temperature just right. And on colder nights I add their quilt and that's something I'll be gifting too. It has that warm, textured finish that makes a bed look and feel inviting the moment you pull it on. And as a gift, Quince Bedding feels meaningful without being over the top. Their quality rivals that of luxury brands that charge two or three times as much. But because Quince works directly with trusted factories and skips the middlemen, you can give that level of craftsmanship at a much more accessible price. Give a gift they'll actually use and love with quince. Go to quince.com sleepmagic for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com sleepmagic free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com sleepmagic as the holidays draw near, the pace of life can start to pick up. More plans, more pressure, more to think about. And if you've been putting everyone else first this year, you might notice your own well being slipping to the bottom of the list. Like the work we do here on Sleep Magic, Taking the step to talk to someone can help you find your way back to Balance, and Rula makes that step simple. They help you start therapy that fits your life and your budget. No endless searching or long wait lists. Rula partners with over 100 insurance plans, and the average cost for most people is about $15 a session, sometimes even zero. Depending on your coverage. They'll match you with a licensed therapist aligned with your goals, and you can often have your first appointment as soon as tomorrow. Rula stays involved too, checking in along the way to help ensure your care is working and that you feel supported. And every step of the way, thousands of people are already using Rula to get affordable, high quality therapy that's actually covered by Insurance. Visit rula.com sleepmagic to get started. After you sign up, you'll be asked how you heard about them. So please support our show and let them know we sent you. That's r u l a.com sleepmagic you deserve mental health care that works with you, not against your budget.
- [06:28]
B
When the holidays start to feel a bit repetitive, reach for a Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry and put your twist on tradition. A bold cranberry and winter spice Flavor Fusion Sprite Winter Spice Cranberry is a refreshing way to shake things up this sipping season, and only for a limited time. Obey your thirst. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast Smart move Being financially savvy Smart move Another smart move having State Farm help you create a competitive price when you choose to bundle home and auto bundling. Just another way to save with a personal price plan. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state.
- [07:23]
A
And Doug Here we have the Limu Emu in its natural habitat, helping people customize their car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. Fascinating. It's accompanied by his natural ally, Doug. Limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us? Cut the camera. They see us. Only pay for what you need@liberty mutual.com Savings Fairy underwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company affiliates excludes Massachusetts now get yourself into a safe and comfortable position and let's begin. Allow your eyes to close easily and gently. As you bring your awareness to your breath. If you've been around for a while at Sleep Magic, you've brought your awareness to your breath many, many times. So it's getting easier to reel in your awareness and bring it home to your body. Bringing it home to your breath. Good. So now I'd like you to bring your awareness up into your eyelids. And I want you to imagine, just for a moment, that your eyelids are becoming sleepy. That you're tired even if you're not. Pretend that you're tired. Pretend that your eyelids are getting heavy and sleepy and even that weird stinging feeling you get when your eyes are so tired you can't keep them open. So allow that heaviness to take over your eyelids. And now I'd like you to accept the suggestion that your eyelids are so heavy they will not open. Of course, if you really wanted to open your eyelids, you could, but I want you to pretend that you can't. So we're really doubling down on the pretending, which is good. It's powerful, powerful part of your mind. So as you pretend that your eyes are so relaxed, your eyelids so heavy that you can't open them. Now test them. And testing them means wiggling your eyebrows, letting your eyebrows move around a bit while your eyelids remain closed. Do that great. You can stop doing it now. Perfect. Now I'd like you to bring yourself to a moment you experienced today. A good moment. It could have been a moment simply of relaxation or peace, a moment of happiness, of connection, or simply observing something, something special or new. There is no right or wrong in what you select. In fact, I encourage you to just let your imagination, your memory, your body serve up a moment today. I know you had hundreds of moments, but just allow yourself right now to really relive a positive moment of your day. And feel good about it. Really let it in. Let your whole body and being breathe into that moment again. Good. This is part of the magic of your mind, is that as you relax, you have more control over what you focus on and can make choices about what you focus on. And focusing on positive things, refeeling positive experiences, is not only pleasant, it's powerful. As you train yourself to feel good for no good reason, except that you have the ability to do that. So let this be your Christmas present or your holiday gift to yourself. Good. Now, as you bring your awareness back to your eyelids and that lovely heavy relaxation in your eyelids and around your eyes, let's imagine that moving back now into your head, like it's falling, spreading, moving back into your brain. Let's imagine that that nice, warm relaxation is moving all the way back into your brain, taking over every single cell of your brain so that your head is feeling nice and heavy on the pillow. But inside your head, it feels floaty and released as all mental tension dissipates and the muscles of your face are becoming soft, soft and relaxed. Your face is letting go from all the work it does during the day. Your face is on vacation. And that warm, relaxed feeling is moving down now to your neck. Imagine the large muscles running up and down your neck being massaged by warm, gentle fingers, creating the perfect pressure to help those muscles let go, let go, let go. As the relaxation moves down into your shoulders, your shoulders are softening and dropping. And the muscles in and around your shoulders are sort of melting. And that melty feeling is moving all the way down your arms, like your arms are melting, feeling heavy on the bed. And the melty feeling is moving all the way down into your palms and your fingers as you imagine energy just pouring out your hands, any tension you may have carried today moving all the way down through your hands, through your fingers, into the bed and down into the ground. Good. And from this moment on, no sound that you hear going on around you in your environment will bother or disturb you in Any way from this moment on, any sounds that you hear, traffic on the street, someone in another room of your home, all of those sounds are now taking you deeper and deeper into relaxation. Bring your awareness now to any sounds going on around you. And let them take you deeper. Beautiful. The only sound you're paying any real attention to is the sound of my voice. And the sound of my voice is also taking you deeper and deeper. And soon then, the sound of my voice will seem distant, detached, as you let go and drift and float and dream. So let's imagine that wonderful melty feeling moving down the muscles of your back. Just imagine that meltiness going down over your shoulder blades, down through your mid section, now moving down through your spine, deep into your lower back muscles, your buttocks, the whole back of your body, melting into the bed. And now a lighter version of the melty feeling, like a misty version of that soft, sweet, melty feeling is moving inside your torso, like you're breathing it into your lungs. And they feel soft and relaxed. And the melty feeling is now circulating inside your chest cavity, surrounding and supporting your heart, softening your heart. And any emotional tension you may have picked up during the day or the week or even this whole past year is dissolving, dissolving. And it feels so nice to let it go. As that melty feeling moves down now deep into your midsection, moving in and around and through your middle organs. And now it's moving down deep into your belly. And you feel your breath drop deep into your belly as your pelvis feels nice and heavy on the bed. And the muscles in your belly, even the ones that you may hold unconsciously during the day, are letting go, softening, relaxing, As you're taking yourself deeper and deeper. That melty feeling is moving down your legs. Now it's moving all the way down your legs, down deep into your feet and your toes, so your legs feel like they've melted. Because you are on vacation now. As you are going deeper and deeper and deeper. As you enjoy this experience, Imagine you are standing on a wooden jetty in Ambon, Indonesia, on one of the over 17,000 islands that make up this tropical archipelago. The air is warm and the humidity hugs your skin. You smell the scent of cloves in the breeze. And as you look out over the water, the sea looks like a sparkling sapphire, rippling gently in the late afternoon light. And in the bay, floating on her anchor, you see a boat, the Amandira, her twin masts rising high against the sky, with her cream colored sails furled neatly her polished hull is glimmering, almost black as it bobs gently in the water. She looks both refined and ancient, like a royal vessel from another time. You step onto a tender boat. The driver starts the engine, pulls away from the jetty and moves into the bay. The sun is strong and warms your whole body, and as the tender picks up speed, it creates a gentle spray that mists your face. The hum of the small engine vibrates beneath you, and as the tender ushers you to the Amandira, you're going deeper and even deeper into relaxation. As you get closer, you see the jet black hull reflecting the light of the water. You look up and see the masts, the lines, the sails up close. She is a beauty. The driver holds your hand, steadying you as you step off the tender and take a set of steps up onto the Amandira. You step onto the deck and your bare feet touch warm, smooth teak. A member of the crew greets you with a bow and you bow. She hands you a cool towel scented with lemongrass and mint. You wipe your hands and pat your face and return the towel. You feel clean and refreshed. Another crew member hands you an icy drink made from coconut, pineapple and lime. You take a sip and the cool tropical tastes slip down inside of you. It's a perfect balance to the heat. You feel calm and relaxed, going deeper and deeper. You peek into the cabins of the vessel, crafted completely from wood. As the late afternoon sun shines through, the interiors glow in gorgeous amber. You smell the wood, oil and fresh linens. Warmed by the sun, Your shoulders relax, taking you deeper and deeper. You survey the bay, looking all around you. There are volcanoes rising straight out of the water. With their dark, muscular shoulders, their slopes streaked with old lava, you are in the ring of fire, a chain of tectonic hotspots running along the edge of the Pacific plate. This ring of fire is home to three quarters of the world's active volcanoes. You look down over the side of the Amandira into the water. You are floating in an ink blue bowl dropping thousands of meters into the sea. This place is like a hinge on the planet. In this region, continental plates come together like puzzle pieces and major ocean currents align. You are floating on the bridge between Asia and Oceania, home to species found nowhere else. Birds of paradise, dwarf seahorses and orchids that bloom like tiny fireworks and smell of cinnamon. The anchor is raised and you feel the faintest vibration beneath her feet. The sails unfurl with a slow, heavy flutter until they catch the wind in wide, quiet breaths. The crew is working quickly and efficiently with ropes coiled like serpents at their feet. You take a nice, deep breath. The breeze smells of salt and volcanic soil. The boat creaks gently, like it's alive, moving with the water. You walk up to the bow and notice a cushioned lounge bed under a canopy. You lie down, relaxing as your body goes deeper. The warm air relaxes your whole being, and the canopy is filtering the remaining sunlight into soft, golden, moving patterns. A young man brings a platter of pineapple slices sprinkled with chili and lime. You pick one up and take a bite m the perfect blend of sweet, sour and spicy. The wind brushes across your arms. The sea stretches out endlessly ahead. The Amandira is really sailing now. You feel the tilt of the deck and the hush of the water as the hull slices through it. And as it sails, you are going deeper and deeper. Indonesia's history unfolds like a tapestry woven from islands scattered across warm seas, each one carrying a story as old as memory. From the first seafarers who looked to the stars to navigate across oceans, to the rise of powerful kingdoms like Srivajaya and Majapahit. This archipelago evolved, becoming one of the crossroads of the world. Traders arrived with spices and silk, new languages and beliefs. Everyone seemed to leave something behind and carry something forward. The Amandira has slowed down now, and you drop anchor near the small town of Banda Nera, its horizon dotted with sharp green volcanic peaks. The islands around it look untouched, as if time has forgotten them. You ride on the tender into town and disembark for a leisurely stroll. Banda Neira is a small town of just 15,000 people, but it has a deep and storied history. As you walk along a humid street, children wave. Old Dutch cannons rust quietly among tropical flowers. You pass an old colonial mansion, a Dutch church and a Chinese temple. You step on something. It feels small and round. You pick it up and place in the palm of your hand where you discover a glossy brown seed in a lacy red casing. This is nutmeg. And now that you've stepped on it, the red outer layer, called mace, is releasing a burst of scent. It's sweet and warm, and it's a scent that changed the world. For thousands of years, these microscopic volcanic islands were the only places on Earth where nutmeg grew. Only here. But when it was finally discovered by outsiders, this aromatic seed in your hand rewired global trade routes. It spurred the age of exploration and even launched wars. These Banda islands were, for a while some of the most valuable real estate on the planet. Nutmeg was so valuable that in 1667, the Dutch traded one of the Banda Islands to the English in exchange for a little island in North America called New Amsterdam, which we refer to today as Manhattan. Nutmeg was worth more than gold, and the world's fortunes turned on these tiny islands. You sniff the seed again. What a potent scent. As empires have risen and fallen, the people of Indonesia have maintained their sense of place, their connection to the forests, the volcanoes, the temples carved with stories of gods and humans. It is a place layered with different cultures, indigenous Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and European. Like sediment creating a beautiful riverbed, countless lives have shaped the ground beneath your feet. And as you walk down the street, it is so peaceful, with its bright red bougainvillea, slow bicycles and a rooster crowing in the shade. When you return to the Amandira, you feel like you're stepping into a gentle floating cocoon. The sun has long ago dropped behind the volcanoes, and the horizon is dissolving into a bluish blur. The night feels soft and humid, And as you go deeper and deeper, your inner being softens. And it just feels good to simply be. The boat bobs gently around her anchor. There's an undulation that feels rhythmic, comforting, primal, Like the Amandira herself is breathing. A member of the crew points your attention upward. The Milky Way unfurls across the sky. The stars are magnificent, so bright they cast a faint reflection on the water. Out here, so far from big cities, the sky becomes an ancient map. And as the moon is rising, You are going deeper and deeper. A crew member leads you along the deck toward your cabin. The wood planks feel smooth beneath your feet, softened by decades of oiling. You hear the waves lapping gently against the hull. You arrive at your suite. It is a simple, spacious cabin, paneled in beautiful pale teak. The bed has crisp white linens that smell of jasmine. Across from the bed is a large window just above the waterline so you can watch the sea shimmering in the moonlight. You slip between the cool sheets. And you sink into the mattress, feeling deeply, deeply relaxed, perhaps more relaxed than you've ever been. And as you close your eyes.
- [46:51]
B
The.
- [46:51]
A
Amandira is cradling you. And you are being rocked to sleep by the ocean itself. And as you go deeper and even deeper, You detect the scent of spice trees drifting across the bay. And your inner being is expanding. As you drift. And float, Sa. It. It.