Winding Down Your Day, Day 6: "Sleep Better Tonight" meditation series,
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
"Spending a few minutes outside before I go to bed at night, helps me sleep better at night, I notice how nature winds down for the evening. This gives me the green light I sometimes need to wind down my own day." --Your fellow meditator
Are you finding it more challenging to fall asleep and stay asleep these days? If so, you are not alone. In fact, meditations to fall asleep are all the rage these days of enduring the Coronavirus pandemic. This week, you are invited to give yourself a better night's sleep. In this week's series, you're guided as you fall asleep and stay asleep using meditation techniques.
This is day 6 of a 7-day Sleep Better Tonight Meditation series, episodes 2229-2235.
THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: You're invited to take part in a Go to Bed Early Quest. You are encouraged to create a new nighttime ritual by going to bed earlier than you usually do.
THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES:
Day 1: Visualization to Sleep Better
Day 2: Affirmation, "I sink into peace."
Day 3: Breathing Technique
Day 4: Mudra Technique
Day 5: Chakra Technique
Day 6: Layer Meditation Techniques
Day 7: Reflection + Introspection
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Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,234 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day six of our sleep series. |
| 0:14.3 | I hope you've been sleeping well this week and that you have discovered some meditation techniques that work for you. You really only |
| 0:23.0 | need one technique to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. It's good to try different ways |
| 0:31.9 | to meditate and different techniques because you never know what might work for you. In today's episode, you are going to be |
| 0:42.0 | guided as you layer together the different meditation techniques you've explored this week. |
| 0:50.3 | When I meditate, I layer together the techniques. And the reason why is because meditation |
| 0:58.1 | techniques help to transition you from whatever you are doing right now to a state of |
| 1:06.4 | inner stillness. And this can take a little time. It's not as though you sit down and boom, |
| 1:13.2 | you are meditating. You are ready to calm your mind. It's more like you sit down and you might |
| 1:21.0 | fidget around a little bit until you get comfortable and then you might have a thought that keeps running through your mind that you |
| 1:29.9 | can't seem to let go of. And so you just might wrestle with that thought a little. And then you |
| 1:38.1 | might think of something else. And then you might think about, well, what are you supposed to be doing? |
| 1:45.9 | You're trying to meditate. |
| 1:47.1 | So you're going to just force your breath to be calm. |
| 1:51.2 | You're going to focus and make yourself calm. |
| 1:55.5 | That doesn't usually work very well. |
| 1:59.1 | And that's why meditation techniques are so priceless. |
| 2:06.1 | When you focus on your breath and you know how to do a few breathing techniques that are |
| 2:12.9 | really designed to help calm your mind and body, you may find that's all you need. You might |
| 2:20.3 | layer in a mudra, a way you position your hands. This helps to activate a corresponding |
| 2:26.4 | region of your brain to help you focus in a particular way. You might repeat an affirmation or do a visualization. These are going |
| 2:39.0 | to help to impact your parasympathetic nervous system in a much better way. That's the |
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