Ease Into Sleep, Day 4 "Sleep Habits: Nightly Renewal for Restorative Sleep" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Be guided with an affirmation to honor your body's unique natural rhythm to help you sleep better.

Welcome to this week's meditation series on creating healthy sleep habits that honor your body's unique natural rhythm. Sleep is a fundamental pillar of our well-being, yet many of us struggle to prioritize it in our fast-paced lives. This series is designed to help you cultivate a deeper connection with your body's natural sleep cycle, allowing you to experience the restorative power of sleep.

It's important to acknowledge that our sleep patterns can vary, and there may be seasons of disturbance or change. These disruptions can be the body's way of sending us a message, signaling that we need to pay closer attention to our sleep habits and overall health. By honoring these signals and making adjustments to our routines, we can support our body's natural rhythm and improve our sleep quality.

In this series, we will explore various techniques and practices to help you create a bedtime routine that promotes restful sleep. We will also delve into the importance of mindfulness and relaxation in preparing the body and mind for rest. By the end of this series, you will have the tools to establish healthy sleep habits that honor your body's unique needs and rhythm.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Honor the Night Quest

How you start your day can impact how you end your day. Do one thing each morning to start your day with inner peace. Each night, do one thing that will ease you more gently into sleep.

This is Day 4 of a 7-part series titled "Sleep Habits: Nightly Renewal for Restorative Sleep.

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.

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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 3,88 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and here you
0:09.5	are getting ready to do one of the best things you could possibly do for yourself as you get ready to meditate.
0:18.0	In today's episode, we are at day four of this series. We're exploring this week. This is a series by
0:27.6	popular request and it is all about creating better sleep habits for a more restorative sleep.
0:37.4	So whether you have trouble falling asleep at night or maybe you fall asleep fine but you wake up and then can't fall back to
0:46.8	sleep. You will find meditation techniques that you can do during the day and as you get ready to go to sleep at night to help you sleep better.
1:00.0	And your challenge this week is to think of something you can do as you start
1:07.8	your day and think of this as a habit that you do daily and how you start your day is often how
1:18.8	the whole rest of your day seems to flow so if you start your day seems to flow. So if you start your day with meditation or journaling or
1:26.8	doing something reflective, maybe even walking in nature, it could even be maybe standing outside your home, looking around as you
1:37.4	sip your coffee or tea or your lemon water and greeting the day. Maybe you're able to watch the sunrise before you start your day.
1:49.0	And this could be a ritual that influences the whole rest of your day.
1:54.7	So even if your day isn't going so well, you remember that you did this one ritual and that you do it every day.
2:02.4	So it's something you look forward to.
2:04.8	These little rituals help you maintain perspective when things aren't going so well.
2:13.0	And the biggest sleep culprit happens to be stress.
2:20.0	So any ritual, no matter how small it is, maybe it's just something you do for 15 seconds or 30 seconds,
2:29.0	this is going to help you manage stress and all these little rituals add up to massive
2:36.8	change in your life. Now the other part of your challenge is to end your day with a ritual. So think about a ritual you could do to end
2:50.0	your day. Now some rituals that are popular are of course to help you sleep better
2:57.8	refrain from any kind of devices, so your phone, your television, your computer, refrain from using these
3:09.8	one to two hours before you go to bed at night.
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