5-Minute Grounding Meditation For Commuters | Mini Meditation

Night Falls: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast

Sleepiest: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast

Alternative Health, Fiction, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Looking for an easy way to integrate meditation into your daily life? Use this short guided meditation on your commute to ground yourself, and remind yourself who you are, amongst the hustle and bustle of modern life. Love Night Falls? 😊 Join Night Falls Premium on Apple Podcasts or via https://nightfalls.supercast.com/ for a rich, immersive and totally ad-free experience 🌙 Please follow and leave us a review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ How are we doing with Night Falls? Let us know 🙌 You can now listen to Night Falls on Youtube! Enjoy the latest episodes with relaxing visuals 📺 About Night Falls 🌕🦌 The Night Falls podcast has been created to gently guide you to sleep with meditation and soothing bedtime stories. Join your host, Geoffrey Austin Newland, every Sunday and Tuesday in the mystical Night Falls, where the air tingles with magic as whispers of stories drift on the breeze along with the embers of the crackling campfire. We will begin each episode with a short meditation, before Geoffrey recounts his adventures in Night Falls, or tells a peaceful bedtime story you may recognise. Looking for the brands I mention on the show? You’ll find all the latest sponsor links and offers right here:⁠ lnk.to/nightfalls ✨ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Jeffrey here.
0:07.0	Hello, it's Jeffrey here. Welcome to Nightfalls. This meditation is designed to be listened to on the way to work. Maybe you're walking to work, riding the bus, or sitting on a train. Wherever you are, your commute is a great time to take a pause and reset your nervous system,
0:46.3	ready for your workday.
0:50.3	This moment is yours.
0:55.0	Even in motion you can still find stillness.
1:00.0	Even surrounded by noise, you can still return to quiet.
1:09.0	Let's begin by noticing your breath.
1:15.4	You don't need to change it.
1:18.8	Just tune in.
1:21.7	Inhale and exhale. Feel the rhythm, your own quiet anchor. Now gently begin to deepen it. Breathe in through your nose.
1:45.0	Let your lungs fill all the way
1:49.0	and breathe out slowly through your mouth,
1:55.0	releasing any tension.
2:04.7	Again, breathe in calm and breathe out
2:10.9	any rush, any stress, any tightness.
2:32.3	Let your shoulders soften. Let your jaw unclench. Let your body know it's safe to take it slow now let these words settle in
2:39.3	like steps on the path ahead
2:42.1	peat them silently
2:44.8	or let them echo in your mind
2:48.3	I am grounded. I am awake and ready for today. I carry calm with me.
3:02.6	I don't have to rush. I greet each day with intention.
3:11.3	What do you want to bring with you to work today? Is it relaxation? Is it confident?
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