This guided meditation will help you fall asleep by allowing you to relax into the present moment,
To relax into the body,
To allow your breath to flow freely through the body,
And to also allow your thoughts to flow freely,
And allowing the present moment,
The breath in the body,
The thoughts in the mind,
To both flow freely,
Providing the optimum conditions from which you can effortlessly drift off into a deep,
Relaxing,
Restorative sleep without making any effort at all to try and go to sleep.
We're just going to simply allow ourselves to be more present in body and mind.
So allowing the breath to come to a natural rhythm in its own time,
And becoming interested in the breath,
Interested in how the breath feels in the body.
So throughout this meditation,
Always looking to feel and experience an aspect of the present moment.
We don't need to think about that,
But of course thoughts will be there and we can notice those too.
But to begin with really feeling your breath in your body,
Remembering not to concentrate,
Not to make effort to focus,
And not to exclude all the other things that are happening in the present moment.
So I'm still aware of the body and the space around the body,
The sounds I can hear.
I'm aware of what's happening internally in the mind,
The thoughts,
Feelings,
Emotions.
They're all part of the picture of this present moment.
But to begin with,
I'm choosing to pay a bit more interest to gently hold in the foreground or the spotlight of my awareness,
The breath and how it feels in the body.
Especially at the beginning of a meditation,
I may notice my thoughts,
Maybe a lot of thoughts,
Depending on how my day's been.
I'm going to see if I can be aware of both the breath and my thoughts at the same time.
So I'm breathing and I'm thinking.
Breath in the body,
Thoughts in the mind,
Both happening right now in this present moment.
So by bringing these two experiences together within my awareness,
And even if there are a lot of thoughts,
I'm still connected to the breath and the body,
Connected to the present moment.
And if I'm aware I'm thinking,
I can only be thinking in the present moment.
So just allowing the thoughts and the breath to flow freely through my awareness.
Not trying to change the breath in any way at all.
Accepting,
Allowing the breath in,
Releasing,
Letting go of the breath,
And accepting and allowing all my thoughts to arrive within the mind,
And releasing,
Letting go of all those thoughts.
So the thoughts can flow just as freely as the breath.
So if at any point you do find that you've wandered off on a train of thought,
Don't move away from your thoughts,
Become more interested in your thoughts,
Add awareness to those thoughts.
Remind yourself that you can only be thinking those thoughts in the present moment,
So you are present.
You are aware of those thoughts,
And you can notice that you're still breathing,
Aware of thoughts and breath,
Mind and body.
So next we can explore a bit more of where the breath and the thoughts are happening.
Starting with the breath,
Feeling the breath first in the body.
So taking your awareness within the body,
Feeling the sensations of the breath as it enters the body,
And then exploring any other sensations you can feel inside the body.
So allowing the breath into the body and allowing your awareness inside your body to explore.
So this is not an explanation session.
This is a kind of Salute.
This is a Sufi endeavor So what about the breath after it's left the body?
So let's get a sense of an awareness on the surface and outside of the body.
As we breathe out and we release the breath,
Getting a sense of the space into which the breath goes just in front of and around the body.
Unaware of any sensations of the body from the outside,
So feeling of temperature,
Connection,
Pressure,
Feeling the clothing on your skin,
The air on your face and hands,
Feeling how the body is being supported,
Noticing every part of the body that is in connection with something.
And feeling the space just around the body.
So now as we continue to allow the breath to flow in and out of the body,
We can feel the sensations within the body and be aware of the contacts and the space just outside the body as we breathe out.
And if I'm aware of the inside and the outside of the body,
Then where is my awareness?
Is it in the body?
Is it outside the body?
Is it both or neither?
So holding the whole of your body and the breath within your open awareness.
So where are your thoughts taking place?
As they arise and pass through your mind,
Are they in the body or outside the body?
Maybe they feel like they may originate inside the brain in the head.
Just like the breath that we take into the body,
We then release and let it go out into the space around us.
So as we let go and release our thoughts,
We can also let them flow and float away out into the space around us.
So our thoughts also happening and flowing through our open awareness,
Without any physical boundaries,
Without any physical limits.
So the breath both inside and outside the body and the thoughts neither inside nor outside the body,
But both flowing freely through my open awareness.
Really relaxing into this feeling of spaciousness of the awareness,
Allowing the breath to flow freely through the body,
Allowing the thoughts to flow freely through the mind,
Keeping the awareness nice and light and open.
Relaxing,
Resting,
Settling into the present moment,
Internally and externally,
Just as it is.
Relaxing.
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