Mini Daytime Meditation | Coming Back To Your Body

Night Falls - Bedtime Stories For Sleep

Sleepiest & Geoffrey Austin Newland

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Fiction

4.5 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Use this meditation whenever you need, as a reset; as a time to let go of your stress, recalibrate, and deescalate any anxiety that latches onto you during the day. Whether you need a mindful moment on your lunch break, or a morning restart, we're here for you. Love Night Falls? 😊 Join Night Falls Premium on Apple Podcasts or via https://nightfalls.supercast.com/ for a rich, immersive and totally ad-free experience 🌙 Please follow and leave us a review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ How are we doing with Night Falls? Let us know 🙌 You can now listen to Night Falls on Youtube! Enjoy the latest episodes with relaxing visuals 📺 About Night Falls 🌕🦌 The Night Falls podcast has been created to gently guide you to sleep with meditation and soothing bedtime stories. Join your host, Geoffrey Austin Newland, every Sunday and Tuesday in the mystical Night Falls, where the air tingles with magic as whispers of stories drift on the breeze along with the embers of the crackling campfire. We will begin each episode with a short meditation, before Geoffrey recounts his adventures in Night Falls, or tells a peaceful bedtime story you may recognise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Jeffrey, and welcome to Nightfalls.
0:24.6	You might know us as your nighttime companion, a place to unwind and drift into rest.
0:32.6	But this time we're here for you at any point in the day, in the middle of a hard moment.
0:41.8	This short practice is here to help you come back to your body when anxiety, panic or stress
0:49.5	pulls you away from it.
0:52.6	You don't need to fix anything. You don't need to change how you feel. You're just
0:59.6	going to come back to your body. Gently, slowly, one breath at a time. Let's begin.
1:12.6	Place your feet flat on the floor.
1:16.6	Notice the ground beneath you.
1:19.6	Feel how it holds you without asking anything in return.
1:24.6	Now bring one hand to your heart and the other hand to your belly. Just notice. There's nothing
1:38.0	you need to do yet. Now take a slow breath in through your nose and gently out through your mouth.
1:52.6	You're here.
1:57.5	You're safe.
2:00.0	Just breathe. Breathe in. Feel your chest rise beneath your hand.
2:11.6	Breathe out. Feel your belly soften.
2:20.3	One more time, inhale and exhale. Now let's turn our attention to the body.
2:39.0	What do your feet feel like right now?
2:44.0	Cool.
2:46.0	Warm.
2:48.0	Tingling.
2:50.0	Heavy? Just observe. No need to read into it.
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