Calming the mind and body for sleep, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Having trouble quieting your mind at night? Join Rohan for this soothing, nighttime meditation designed to ease your body and mind into a restful sleep. Drawing on the close connection between mindfulness and relaxation, Rohan takes you step by step through the process of turning down your senses until all that remains is the quiet calm of rest.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for joining us for today's meditation. |
| 0:03.6 | If you're looking for a classic meditative story, |
| 0:06.8 | we invite you to explore the rest of our library. |
| 0:23.0 | You know, it's always struck me |
| 0:25.0 | how the pursuit of better sleep is so often the way people come |
| 0:29.0 | to mindfulness and meditation. |
| 0:31.0 | I've seen it time and time again over the years, |
| 0:35.0 | and it makes total sense. |
| 0:39.0 | Given how much meditation and sleep are natural bedfellows, |
| 0:43.0 | it's also entirely natural that our show has its companion |
| 0:47.0 | podcast feed. |
| 0:49.0 | Sleep song. |
| 0:53.0 | If you've never tried it, |
| 0:55.0 | you totally should. |
| 0:57.0 | The way it works is, |
| 0:59.0 | well you know the amazing music that my annoyingly talented colleagues, |
| 1:03.0 | Ryan Holiday and Eduardo Rivera, |
| 1:05.0 | composed me into our classic episodes. |
| 1:09.0 | Well, they take that music from some of our favourite stories |
| 1:13.0 | and make it the star, |
| 1:15.0 | modding it so that it's super conducive to softening the edges of the day gone before, |
| 1:21.0 | and taking us closer to that threshold of sleep. |
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