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meditation. Hi and welcome to Sleep Cove the place to come for a great night's sleep.

With me, Christopher Fitton.

Tonight we're going to be doing a relaxing healing color meditation to help you sleep quickly in

under 15 minutes. We'll use deep breathing as well as guided color imagery and progressive muscle relaxation to remove

any anxiety and stress. So let's begin. Please get comfortable in a place that if you were to fall asleep, you could safely do so.

And you will be listening to the sound of my voice as I guide you in this

meditation and I would like you to put one hand on your stomach and one hand on your chest and feel where the breathing is coming from.

You want to make sure that the breathing is emanating from the stomach and not coming

from the upper chest area.

If it is coming from the upper chest area, then we know that you're not breathing

efficiently or deeply. We want to be making sure that the breathing is

happening through our stomach and that's deep beddy

breathing where we breathe efficiently and the oxygen and air circulates to the deep paths of our lungs.

If we use our upper chest area that means that we are shallow breathing and

shadow breathing is not good as it means that oxygen cannot bind with the red blood cells because your CO2 will not be in

sink with your body and that's why it's really important to do deep, slow breathing.

Breathing fast unnecessarily

actually makes the red blood cells

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