Find your calm, overcome overthinking, and STOP ruminating. Guided sleep meditation & quiet talk
SLEEP MEDITATION with Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 151 minutes
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Summary
0:00-3:00 An introduction to the journey of rumination
3:00-8:00 Stop rumination, start where you are now, and decide to begin now
8:00-10:15 Experience the power of visualisation; stop rumination.
10:15-14:00 Safe space visualisation: imagine a place where you feel entirely safe, harnessing the power of the mind.
14:00-23:00 Picture your ruminative thoughts as balloons filled with air. Balloon release: managing rumination through the incredible balloon release practice.
23:00- 29:00 A serene natural setting for learning to redirect thoughts and practise cognitive diffusion.
29:00-35:00 Candle flame visualisation- Eradicate and transform overthinking; send your thoughts away through breathing.
33:00-41:45 The definition of rumination. Understand rumination so that you can end overthinking
41:45-57:30 Create a self-empowered mental space where you can sort through, categorise, and resolve thoughts.
57:30-1:11 Building blocks to develop resilience and manage overthinking. Learn how to stop ruminating
01:11-1:15:30 Clock alarm visualisation for creation and cultivating cognitive diffusion.
01:15:30 Imagine now engaging in mundane tasks.
01: 27-1:33:30 Cultivate curiosity: a healthy mind is a curious mind. Practice a curiousity and self-inquiry-practice to reduce stress
01:33:30-1:37 Be thankful in this moment; heal stress and stop ruminating with a gratitude practice.
01:37-1:33 Explore cognitive diffusion techniques for stress relief.
01:33 Body Scan Meditation for deep relaxation and sleep.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, Lauren here. |
| 0:06.0 | In this practice, in this meditation, we are going to start by talking about rumination. |
| 0:18.0 | The rumination, the ruminating of the mind this will slowly evolve into a |
| 0:31.6 | meditation focusing on affirmation and a body scan. |
| 0:43.3 | There will be longer pauses at different times in this practice. |
| 0:52.3 | Allow these pauses to flow over you. |
| 1:00.0 | Allow yourself to almost inhale this practice, become this practice. |
| 1:09.0 | Allow yourself to be malleable somewhat like a cloud shape shifting. |
| 1:17.6 | As humans we tend to repeat certain behaviours, develop habits as we do with our minds as well. |
| 1:34.3 | And sometimes these habits can be around thinking or over thinking. |
| 1:43.8 | To change or to reduce or manage overthinking or rumination, it requires |
| 1:55.0 | assessment, understanding you, your mind, and why your body has decided to think in the patterns that it chooses to think. |
| 2:13.6 | A gentle, compassionate understanding for your mind. |
| 2:21.4 | We will start with exploring an understanding of rumination, and this will evolve. |
| 2:33.9 | Decide where you are going to practice this meditation, this quiet talk. |
| 2:43.0 | Preferably dress in comfortable clothing. |
| 2:49.0 | And when you are ready we will start |
| 2:53.6 | sit down or lie down comfortably and we will begin. |
| 3:15.3 | Start where you are now. |
| 3:20.3 | Have an idea, have intention to start now. |
| 3:32.0 | If your mind is wandering or focusing on a number of different things or thoughts, that's okay. |
| 3:44.2 | Gently encourage your mind into this space right now. |
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