← Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast
Sleep Magic: Sleep Hypnosis & Meditation for Sleep Podcast
Sleep Hypnosis For Anxious Nights | Calming Meditation For Bedtime
00:58:59
Loading summary
Transcript1 lines
- [00:12]
A
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. Hi everyone. Thank you everyone for being here. I have some shout outs tonight thanks to Becky at Blacksford who wrote to us. Says she loves the episodes where I read books and has listened to some of them up to 20 times. I love that someone named Breezy would like some episodes about historical events. Interesting idea. And PJo Anonymous is no longer falling asleep in class. Well, that's great. Thank you for letting us know. Mr. Cool says sleep Magic is good for his brain. And Alan Aks, I don't know what that means, encourages others to subscribe. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally we heard from Zoe Z. Who wished us a happy St. Patrick's Day. I hope you had a really good one too, Zoe. Thank you all for listening. Every single person out there right now listening. Thank you. Without you, I am just relaxing into the void. And that, that's no good for anyone. So tonight, sleep hypnosis for anxious nights. I know when I feel anxious, that becomes my whole world. I'm sort of taken over by it and I can't see beyond it. My brain gets hijacked, my heart shuts down and my gut tightens up and does its own weird freaked out dance. And with all that drama going on in my body, I lose perspective. I forget that I'm simply experiencing a wave of anxiety and that this too shall pass. So the issue is not about getting rid of anxiety, but rising above it. Seeing that it's not the whole picture, that it's not all of who I am. So detaching from it. So for tonight, I've designed a hypnosis that will help you rise above any anxiety you may be feeling. And if you're not feeling anxiety, great, great. Well, then it will just feel good. I hope you like it. Before we begin, our only ad break which makes this magic possible to listen ad free. Follow the link in the show notes. You go to Hawaii in your head all the time. But when you're actually ready to go, there's Expedia, flights, hotels, vacation homes, cars. Save more when you bundle so you can stop dreaming and start saving Expedia, the one place you go to go places. Members only. Savings vary. You're probably driving, working out or doing chores. Right now. TikTok isn't just entertainment. It's where I find fast, practical advice for real life. Download TikTok now. April has a way of subtly inviting Change longer days, softer mornings, a real sense that things can begin again. And sometimes it's a chance to return to our routines and start shaping them in a way that truly supports us. With that in mind, I've decided to run a rare flash sale on team magic with 30% off our yearly plans, giving you ad free access to my full world of sleep hypnosis and exclusive sessions so you can sleep better night after night. And this month on our premium feed, I'll be sharing some of my most targeted work yet, including hypnosis designed to ease anxiety, soften overthinking, and help you reconnect with a calmer, steadier version of yourself. As we move toward Mental Health Awareness Month, this is a beautiful time to support your rest a little more intentionally. So if you're ready to sleep a little deeper this year, you can join now by tapping the link in the show notes or. Or click subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Now get yourself into a safe and comfortable position and let's begin. Allow your eyes to close easily and gently. Good. Now bring your awareness, just for a moment, to the breath. It's amazing that our breath is always here and yet we pay so little attention to it. So when you bring your awareness to the breath, your awareness begins to settle down. It's coming home back to your body, back to this lovely metronome inside of you. And you don't need to do anything fancy with your breath. Just allow the awareness to ride the wave of it. Good. Now let's bring your awareness up into your eyelids and allow your eyelids to get nice and heavy. Imagine that heaviness in your eyes. And as you imagine it, they become heavier, even if just a little. As you allow your eyelids to relax, I'd like you to accept the suggestion that your eyelids are so relaxed they will not open. And that's an absurd suggestion, but I want you to pretend. So pretending that your eyelids will not open, I'd like you to test them now by wiggling your eyebrows. Just give them a little tug while your eyes remain closed. Good. Now, this lovely, heavy, relaxed feeling that you have around your eyes is the same quality of relaxation that you will soon have throughout your entire body. So let's imagine that warm, relaxed feeling moving back now into your head. Just imagine it like a wave spilling back into your head into your brain, taking over every single cell of your brain. As your mind begins its letting go. As you imagine warm waves of relaxation lapping up against the beach of your mind, just allow those warm waves of relaxation to lap up against the beach of your mind as all mental tension disappears. Good. And your head is feeling so heavy on the pillow, the muscles of your face are becoming soft and relaxed. As this lovely, warm, relaxed feeling spills down now into your neck and throat, warming your neck muscles, moving down now into your shoulders, you allow that lovely, warm, relaxed feeling to move down into your shoulders so that they're melting, melting into the bed. And as your shoulders are relaxing, all of the responsibilities you carry on those shoulders are falling to the floor. Responsibilities you feel to your family and friends, responsibilities you feel at work and to your community, responsibilities you feel to the world at large and to the future. They've all dropped to the floor. And even responsibilities you feel to the past have fallen away as well. And you can pick any or all of them up in the morning. But for right now, your only responsibility is to yourself. As you go deeper and deeper, You're allowed to let go. This is the time when everyone is allowed to let go. Of everything. As we drift into the night, Experiencing a very special type of freedom. As the relaxation moves down your arms, now allow that heaviness to move down through your biceps, your elbows, down your forearms and into the palms of your hands. Allow that heaviness to take over your arms so that they feel so heavy they could be made of marble. And as the relaxation moves down into your fingers, every single finger is feeling warm, heavy and relaxed. It feels so nice to let go. And as you go deeper and deeper tonight, you may be aware of sounds going on around you in your environment. But from this moment on, no sound that you hear will bother or disturb you in any way. In fact, from this moment on, any sound that you hear because you are so relaxed will take you deeper and even deeper. So bring your awareness now to any sound that may be going on around you. And let them take you deeper. Good. The only sound you're paying any real attention to, my voice. But very soon, my voice will also feel like just a vibration in the distance, taking you deeper and deeper. And perhaps that's already happening. As you go deeper and deeper. So let's imagine that warm, lovely, relaxed feeling moving down into your chest. Imagine that wave sort of spilling into your rib cage, into your chest cavity. And let's imagine that it's swirling there like a gentle whirlpool. And this is softening you from the inside, Relaxing you from the inside out. And as that whirlpool surrounds and softens your heart, Any emotional tension that may have built up in the last little while in or around your heart. Has disappeared, gone with the tide. And that feels so nice, to be at peace, That wonderful warm wave move down now deeper into your belly, your lower body, as you feel your pelvis sitting heavy on the bed. Allow your pelvis to feel heavy, and all of the muscles around it connected to it are letting go. And as that warm, relaxed feeling moves even deeper inside of you, it too is swirling like a whirlpool in your belly. And your belly picks up tension. It thinks in its own way. It feels, it senses. So as you let it be bathed now in this relaxation, any tension that may have built up in your belly over the last little while has disappeared. And you feel soft inside, Connected to your inner world, your inner being. And as you allow the warm, relaxed feeling to move down now, down into your legs, through your knees, down your calves, into your feet, allow your legs to feel nice and heavy. Their day is done. And as the relaxation moves down into your feet and toes, every toe is feeling full, heavy and relaxed as you go deeper and even deeper. Imagine, now that you're standing on open ground. The grass beneath your feet feels cool, and you feel supported by the earth. You look up now into the wide sky stretching above you, and it's filled with clouds. Some are moving quickly, shifting and reshaping, while others are gathering more densely, layering over one another, Full of movement and energy. You watch them for a while. You notice that their motion is constant as they continue changing. There are currents around and within the clouds, forming and then dissolving and then forming again. Some currents are passing swiftly while others linger. Imagine these clouds are your thoughts. They too have energy and movement, and their activity fills the sky of your mind. And as you're standing here on the grass, you feel how close the clouds are, And your attention is drawn upward into their motion, following their patterns, their shifts, their speed. The clouds are dominating your mind and have a life of their own. And now something begins to change. You feel a gentle lightness in your body, And you detect a soft upward pull as you begin to rise. Gently, effortlessly, like a balloon. Now you're floating. The ground beneath you is becoming more distant as you lift into the air. You are being carried, and your body is light. Your movements are smooth as you drift up, up, up toward the clouds. You enter the first layer. It feels soft and cool here. The air is slightly thicker, brushing gently across your skin. The clouds are surrounding you. Their edges are dissolving as you pass through them, And you are surrounded by a soft, silvery light. It is very quiet here Although there is movement taking place, you are now within it, drifting, floating. As you are carried up, up, up. You're rising through another layer. And now another. Each one softening around you. And now you are rising through the final layer. And you emerge into a vast open sky. Clear, wide, Endless in every direction. The air feels lighter here, And very still. You allow your inner being to expand. You look down now. And you see the clouds stretching over the land like a soft landscape. They're rolling gently across the sky. You see their shapes more clearly now. Their movements appear slower, More defined. You see patterns emerging. Where before there was only motion. You notice how the clouds move together, How they gather into larger formations, And then how they drift apart again. You watch entire systems forming, shifting and moving on. There's a rhythm to it all. A quiet intelligence. Some areas are dense with clouds. And others are more open. From up here, Everything feels different. You're watching the same clouds and the same movement, But you're seeing them from a different perspective. From up here, you're getting the wider view, Seeing how everything moves, How everything changes. And here, up in the open sky, You sense a quiet steadiness, A stillness, A presence. Wide open, Unchanging. And you recognize this stillness. It's always here, Always has been, and always will. Be. Patient, Observant. There's nothing to do here, Nothing to think. There's just space. And you're gentle awareness. And your body is responding to this peaceful stillness. Your breath is slowing down. Your chest is softening. Your shoulders are settling. And a sense of ease is spreading through you. As this openness is moving into you, Filling the space inside your body. As your inner being expand. Again. And now, very gently, slowly, You begin to drift downward. Slowly, Easily. The clouds below you are drawing closer. But they're soft and familiar now. And the closer you get to them, the more relaxed you're becoming. As you enter the clouds once again, you feel their texture soft against your skin. But this time they feel more spacious. You notice the openings between them. You notice the flow. As you drift down through one layer and then down into another. Carry gently and easily toward the earth. And as you move down through the clouds, You notice that the wide open sky remains within you. You carry it in, Steady, Open. Calm. And as you're drifting downward, the ground begins to rise up toward you again. And now your feet meet the grass once more. And you stand here again, beneath the sky. And you notice the clouds have shifted. There's more space between them, Soft light passing through them. Their movement is gentler. And slower. They're peaceful. As you feel the vast open sky within you. And now you feel your body on your bed. Sinking deeper into the matt. Your breath feels nice and slow. And steady. And your mind is resting. As you drift. And float. It. Sam. Sa. It.