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Mindfulness of the Eyes for Rest and Sleep

by Sarah Evans

Rated
4.2
Type
guided
Activity
Meditation
Suitable for
Everyone
Plays
47

This is progressive relaxation exercise focusing on Mindfulness of the Eyes, a simple guided meditation which allows you to fully relax and prepare for sleep or rest. Beginning with relaxing the neck and shoulders, before bringing mindful awareness to the entire eye area and gently resting the muscles around the eyes and releasing the eyes themselves. Mindfulness of the eyes is a great way to calm the body, by stimulating the vagal nerve via the optical nerves and putting the body into the parasympathetic state, for either rest or sleep. This recording ends quietly to be suitable for listening to in bed at the end of the day, but you can enjoy any time you would like to rest.

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Transcript

This is a mindfulness of the eyes meditation to allow you to fully relax and settle,

Either ready for rest or ready for a good night's sleep.

So get comfortable in your either seated or lying down position and for now we'll start with having the eyes open.

So keep the eyes open,

Keep your head down,

Keep your eyes open,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

Keep your head down,

And release.

One more,

Breathing deep into your belly and sigh it out.

Still focusing on a particular point.

What we're going to do is bring our hands and cup the eyes.

So again,

We're keeping the eyes open for now,

But placing the palms of your hands over the top of your entire eye socket and stare into the dark inky black behind your hand.

As you keep your hands there,

Cupping your eyes,

Feeling the warmth from your hand,

And in your own time,

And when you feel ready,

Allow your eyes to close when they feel like they want to close.

Gently,

Soft,

Let your eyes close.

Keeping the hands on your eye socket.

So we're going to gently push into the bony parts around your eyes.

So pushing gently the bone where your eyebrows are,

Your cheekbone below the eye socket,

And the skull at the sides of your eye socket too.

Gently applying a little pressure.

As you do this,

You may find yourself relaxed.

You can keep your hands here if you wish,

Or if you're ready to take your hands away,

Gently release your hands.

Eyes closed.

Now we'll focus the eye muscles around the eyes.

So see if you can gently let the muscles all around your eyes release and relax.

This often feels like you're actually drawing back your eyeball deeper into the socket.

However,

It feels to see if you can completely release tension,

The muscles all around your eyes.

Time for rest.

Time for rest.

Your eyes are resting in your eye socket.

Eye muscles are relaxing.

Relaxing behind your left eye.

Heavy,

Loose,

Relaxed.

Relaxing behind your right,

Your right,

Loose.

Relaxing your left temple.

Relaxing your forehead.

Let it all go.

Relaxing right temple.

Feeling the tongue at the roof of your mouth.

Relaxing.

Letting your jaw relax.

Come the jar slightly.

Relaxing the whole scalp of your head.

Heavy,

Loose,

Relaxed.

Time for rest.

Relaxing the left earlobe.

Relaxing the right earlobe.

Your whole head,

Completely soft,

Heavy,

Sinking down,

Relaxed.

Sinking down into a deep rest.

Heavy,

Loose,

Relaxed.

Meet your Teacher

Sarah EvansSheffield, UK

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