You are listening to the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast and I'm your host Liz Carlile.
Thank you so much for joining me for another guided meditation.
I'm thrilled that you are taking the time for yourself,
For your sleep,
For your happiness.
And it's interesting that when we focus on our self-care,
On loving ourselves,
How everything else changes in our lives.
So you pressing play,
Getting in a comfortable position,
Ready to do the work,
Says volumes about who you are and the direction that you want your life to go.
For now,
I want you to find yourself in a comfortable position.
Since this is a meditation on sleep,
It's best to be laying down already in bed.
Focus now on your breathing.
Feel the air going into your nose,
Down your esophagus,
Filling your lungs with healing oxygen.
Just as you notice the expansion,
I want you to notice the contraction when the air leaves your body through the same path.
Again,
You're not forcing your breaths.
You're just observing.
This might be the first time today that you've really tuned in to your amazing body.
Observing the miracles that are existing automatically so that you can think and feel and process your world.
Notice your breaths.
Notice the rise and fall of your chest.
As we go further and deeper into this meditation,
You should notice your breath moving down into your belly as you fully relax and feel the weight of your body sinking into the mattress.
Bringing your awareness now to the top of your head as it gently rests on the pillow.
Trickle down your awareness past your eyes,
Your ears,
Your jaw,
To your chin lightly as if it were a raindrop on the windowsill.
Bring it down past your throat,
Your collarbones,
Tracing the path past your shoulders,
Down your arms,
Past your elbows,
And your forearms,
Into your wrists and your fingertips,
Bringing the drop back to your heart.
Trickling down past your lungs,
Past your belly,
Past your hips,
Past your legs,
Your knees,
Your shins,
Your ankles,
The tops of your feet,
The bottoms,
All the way to the tips of your toes.
That body awareness has now let you become fully relaxed and aware and into a state of half awake,
Half asleep.
Feel aware of your thoughts,
But also intimately aware of how restful and calm and at peace you feel in your body.
Keep breathing.
I'm going to count down from 10,
And I want you to imagine as each number gets lower,
You sink further into the mattress,
Further into a dreamlike state of happiness and good dreams and bliss.
Ten,
Nine,
Eight,
Seven,
Six,
Five,
Four,
Three,
Two,
One.
Good night.
Namaste.
