1032: Calming Mind Currents: Guided Meditation For Deep Sleep
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina shares a guided meditation intended to help listeners put their mind at ease and drift effortlessly to sleep. While this meditation is designed to help listeners calm down for sleep, it can certainly be utilized for a restful meditation without leading to deep sleep. Listen in for a peaceful guided meditation and start feeling more calm today!
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Chapters
0:23 Introduction to Calming Mind Currents
4:52 Getting Comfortable for Deep Sleep Meditation
8:19 The Impact of Thoughts on the Mind River
11:20 The Importance of Achieving Restful Sleep
12:10 Benefits of a Calmer State of Mind
15:03 Implementing Positive Affirmations for Mind Control
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, Gina Ryan guides listeners through a calming guided meditation for deep sleep, emphasizing the importance of purposeful relaxation to signal to the mind that all is well. She encourages listeners to cultivate mindfulness by paying attention to breath and words, allowing themselves to relax deeply. By practicing guided meditations, individuals can become accustomed to being in a state of calm intentionally, fostering mindfulness and the ability to let go.
Ryan explores the concept of sleep as a state of letting go, rather than an active process, highlighting the profound act of releasing control and falling into sleep. Through visualization exercises, she helps listeners visualize their busy minds as a rushing river, emphasizing the importance of slowing down thoughts to achieve a clearer, calmer mind. Ryan underscores the detrimental effects of a storm of thoughts on mental well-being, urging listeners to observe their thoughts and not get swept away by overwhelming thinking patterns.
The episode delves into the challenges of achieving restful sleep amidst a busy mind, emphasizing the need to train the mind to work for individuals. Ryan outlines the benefits of a calmer mind, including improved sleep quality, anxiety reduction, increased focus, and enhanced emotional intelligence. By bringing awareness to physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts, individuals can diminish the power of bothersome thoughts and cultivate a more peaceful mental state. Positive affirmations and mindfulness techniques are encouraged as tools to retrain the mind and promote restful sleep.
Through the practice of mindfulness and intentional relaxation, listeners are guided towards a deeper understanding of the mind-body connection and the transformative power of embracing calmness in daily life. Ryan's soothing guidance offers a pathway to achieving restful sleep, emotional balance, and mental clarity, ultimately empowering individuals to take charge of their mental well-being and cultivate a more peaceful existence.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:08.9 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show |
| 0:12.2 | where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, |
| 0:30.3 | and I am so happy to be with you again today as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm. In today's episode I'm talking about calming mind |
| 0:47.4 | currents. This is a guided meditation for deep sleep, but I got thinking about it since we had those recent |
| 0:57.0 | episodes about flying and the stress of flying or the anxiety of flying that maybe this kind of a meditation |
| 1:06.3 | even though it's labeled for deep sleep would be a good one to have on your |
| 1:11.9 | phone that you could listen to while you were flying. |
| 1:16.1 | And what I want you to do is to find your favorite ones to take with you when you are taking a trip like that and you're going to be on the |
| 1:25.3 | plane for a while. Have your favorite things that you can listen to and maybe this will be |
| 1:31.0 | one of them, I don't know. |
| 1:32.8 | But what we want to do is remember that we can relax our body. |
| 1:40.0 | There's so much that we can do to reach that deeper relaxation, but we need to do it purposefully. |
| 1:48.5 | It doesn't just happen automatically. |
| 1:51.3 | Even right now, before we get started on this if I think about relaxing my |
| 1:57.2 | shoulders they go down a little bit more that means that I was unconsciously holding them up. We just do that. It's okay, but we can |
| 2:08.1 | check in with ourselves and bring body awareness so that we can have our body send a message to the mind that all is well. |
| 2:20.0 | Her muscles are relaxing. She lowered her shoulders finally. |
| 2:25.0 | She's taking in longer, slower exhale. |
| 2:30.0 | Things must be okay. The amygdala is gonna stand down now because you're not asking it to be on high alert. |
| 2:40.0 | And when it stands down, then the muscles get to relax a little bit more. |
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