This is episode 1,561.

Welcome to your daily guided meditation.

How are you doing?

How is your nighttime ritual coming along?

Several of you have emailed me and sent photos of some of the ways you have created a nighttime ritual for yourself. You've shown me candles and

your room and different things you've done and that is really exciting.

I'm so happy for you because when you do these things

for yourself, they make a big difference. And it makes you excited about what you're doing for yourself.

So many times by the end of the day we're thinking, I'm just exhausted I'm going to go to bed I don't

really need to do anything special for myself I'm just gonna lay down and go to

bed well when you celebrate going to bed, then it becomes more of an event and it creates

a shift within you. and it's time to

it creates a shift within you psychologically that it's time to honor your sleep.

Remember, sleep is not an option. It's not a luxury. If you have a choice between getting a little more work done or getting a few more hours of sleep, go for the sleep.

Too often we think, oh, sleep. much better tomorrow and so you sacrifice your sleep but it takes a full day to

recover from losing an hour's worth of sleep. If you miss several hours worth of sleep that

night it takes several days for your body to catch up on the sleep. So honor your sleep above all else that

you're doing in the evening. And think of sleep as a vital part of your health and well-being. So here is another

suggestion for you.

If you're not going to be watching your screens,

meaning your TV, your computer, or your phone,

two hours before you go to bed at night, then you might wonder, well, what

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