Affirmation to Sleep Better, Day 2: Sleep Better Tonight Meditation series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
"Today while meditating I felt a very weird out-of-body experience. Is this normal?" -- Andre from California USA , your fellow meditator
Are you finding it more challenging to fall asleep and stay asleep these days? If so, you are not alone. In fact, meditations to fall asleep are all the rage these days of uncertainty. This week, you are invited to give yourself a better night's sleep. In this week's series, you're guided as you fall asleep and stay asleep using meditation techniques.
This is day 2 of a 7-day Sleep Better Tonight Meditation series, episodes 2229-2235.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a Go to Bed Early Quest. You are encouraged to create a new nighttime ritual by going to bed earlier than you usually do.
THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES:
Day 1: Visualization to Sleep Better
Day 2: Affirmation, "I sink into peace."
Day 3: Breathing Technique
Day 4: Mudra Technique
Day 5: Chakra Technique
Day 6: Layer Meditation Techniques
Day 7: Reflection + Introspection
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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,230 of the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you as you give |
| 0:11.9 | yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. |
| 0:21.5 | I welcome you to day two of our series. |
| 0:26.5 | You're being guided through this week to help you sleep better. |
| 0:33.5 | Sleep is a vital part of your health and well-being. |
| 0:38.8 | It's not an option, although it's often treated as something that you can put off doing in place of other so-called more important activities. You might find that if you still have some work |
| 0:58.7 | left to do at the end of your day, you'll forego an hour or two of sleep in order to finish it. |
| 1:06.4 | Experts claim that you can't really catch up on lost sleep and that in order to repay your sleep debt, it can take up to four days. |
| 1:20.7 | Sleep expert Alina Wynnell says that statistics indicate that we can catch up on about 20 hours of missed sleep. |
| 1:35.3 | We can also only catch up on this debt in one to two hour increments of time, not in one block. |
| 1:47.0 | So when you sleep, your body is doing a lot of important activities. |
| 1:55.0 | Your brain is entering information it has learned through the day into your memory and this is forming new |
| 2:04.6 | pathways to help you learn and remember. This is also the time that it reestablishes |
| 2:12.6 | communication between your different areas or regions of your brain. |
| 2:21.3 | Also when you're sleeping, your body grows, repairs, and heals itself. |
| 2:27.3 | And this includes your heart and blood vessels. |
| 2:33.3 | Sleep also helps to maintain a healthy balance of hormones. |
| 2:39.0 | And those include hormones that control appetite, blood sugar levels, and growth and development. |
| 2:49.0 | Sleep also helps to regulate the function of your immune system. |
| 2:56.8 | And this is from a website called Blackmores and it's titled Stress Relief. |
| 3:06.6 | How long does it take to Make Up Sleep Debt? |
| 3:11.9 | So as you get ready to perhaps settle yourself down to sleep, you can do this meditation, |
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