For the nights you wake at three and can’t find your way back down.

Now that you are here... And as you settle yourself simply becoming aware of your body how it’s positioned and just allowing a full easy in soft and a sigh out from this gentle organizing of your state that is very simple and perhaps you begin to notice that you don’t have to do anything else at all nothing to try and figure out and that for these next moments you can simply allow yourself to be here just letting my voice flow over you that is guiding you into this drift back to deep sleep and as your body might move just a little, finding a new place that feels good underneath you. I wonder what it would be like to simply trust. That all is well in your body it can and it will in its own rhythm return and drift back to sleep and that in the meantime letting my voice guide and support you as you feel the softness of texture and being held by what is underneath you and perhaps your breath is already beginning to slow very gently and perhaps there are moments when you notice that you hold your breath and that’s okay too. There’s nothing here for you to do.

Just simply notice from that soft seeping through, softening and sleepy place within. A gentle allowing for mind to do what it wants to do. Whilst you listen to my voice. You may perhaps begin to become aware of your jaw and just notice your jaw and there’s no need to change anything there. And imagine now what a beautiful warm golden light might be like if it were to begin to surround your jaw, the sides of your face like an extra soft buoyancy of soothing light from underneath you.

It has its own beautiful soft energy field that your body gets to softly nestle into without your mind needing to do a thing the warmth is just right this golden light knows exactly how to soothe you and perhaps it allows your jaw to become somehow more soft as you breathe in and breathe out as if it’s smoothing and releasing in its own way and perhaps your tongue find somewhere comfortable now to rest even deeper and the muscles around your jaw begin to let go. You don’t have to make them relax, you can simply imagine them. Being smoothed in this light of gold and warmth, softening and releasing all by themselves. And perhaps each time you hear the words softening, smoothing, releasing your body begins to understand a little more deeply now what those words actually feel like inside. And as you drift, letting the breath come and go as it wants, you begin to notice your awareness flows to the middle of your forehead.

And that... That beautiful space between your eyebrows simply begins to soften wide like a beautiful golden sun. And you don’t need to concentrate, you just notice, imagining it. That space beginning to soften and open with every breath or every movement if anything comes as you swallow if your body wants to rearrange all is welcome and you let your body know all is welcome my darling I’m here and it’s as though your forehead were the surface of a beautiful sun that is softly just above a still lake and perhaps there was once a tiny ripple there. And now the ripple is spreading gently outward, further and further, so soft until the whole surface...

Become so smooth into a spacious, widening and stillness and perhaps you can imagine your forehead beautifully smooth now the forehead and jaw and now around the eyes each gentle out breath or if a sigh or a yawn comes your eyes can just enjoy the idea of softening as your gentleness and awareness gets to remain. And there’s no effort anywhere. And perhaps you begin to discover something quite wonderful. That your gentle awareness itself is becoming like a little magnet. It’s a very soft magnet in your imagination.

Or you just sense it and all these places within your body that maybe or have been holding perhaps the forehead the jaw or the hands the feet or the thighs the chest or the belly or the neck. Perhaps those little moments when the breath was even held, they become like tiny little pieces of iron. Like iron filings and your gentle awareness is the magnet. And you don’t need to search for the tension, you don’t need to find it. You just notice the little iron filings beginning to gather, gently gathering and as they gather they begin to move.

From wherever they are towards the center of your spine at the back of your heart everything just flows effortlessly down towards or up towards this place of your spine the back of your heart and these little tiny particles of tension that have become these little iron filings, they gently begin to be drawn gently towards the base of your spine. Down and down with no effort and your breath simply flows and somewhere at the base of your spine you sense feel imagine this little tap you feel or sense its shape and how it softly opens and how this beautiful little tap begins to flow everything that you’ve been aware of everything begins to flow with ease through and out and off and away. Everything flows down through the body, through the spine. And it perhaps it becomes like beautiful warm light as it flows down off and away like a beautiful river of soft golden light every exhale allows this river to flow a little more freely now and you notice how the body just gets to feel this softness through the jaw, the forehead, smoother the hands so relaxed as it flows deeper now this softness. Your body drifting with ease everything just so gently softening more and you become aware that there is a sense of a beautiful dream time flowing in your imagination of a beautiful velveteen grassy bank that you are comfortably soft cushioned but in your bed it’s a magical sweet place in your imagination.

A sense of floating in your imagination and a beautiful still lake and all you can see in a beautiful lilac blue to indigo sky are little glistening stars that begin to appear as these stars appear you begin to see how still the water is of the lake just ahead of you in your mind’s vision. It feels so safe, beautifully comforting and little lanterns dotted in trees around you, a sweet whispering of a gentle breeze. And you simply sense the beauty of the sky with the stars. And there, a gentle crescent moon softly reflects on this lake. That’s so still, it’s like a beautiful mirror.

The warmth is still along your spine. The quietness around you and you hear in the ethers of the breeze. Just rest now my love your body receiving full permission as the whole of your body begins to allow this beautiful wisdom of the lake of stillness and softness and there’s nothing for you to try and do just simply allowing everything to flow softly with your breath anything in the body remaining it simply flows with ease down through the tap like a beautiful streaming flow of light down through the grass and down into the lake. It’s so beautiful the nature of this. Softening into deep deep sleep your eyes are so heavy your body so gently held in this loving nature that protects you and guides your body to simply allow to welcome this gentle deep knowing of deep relaxation as more and more beautiful stars glisten in the sky, scattered across the darkness, protecting you and holding you.

More stars appearing, beautiful little glistenings of light. Everything simply holding you in its love, the quietness of nature as you rest now. And perhaps something inside you already knows how this allowing... And simply flowing. And tonight may become one of those nights where the depths of beautiful sleep and nourishment becomes the most...

Nourishing sleep you’ve had in a very long time and that your body gets to nourish, restore and feel all of the goodness in the morning and the goodness is so good that your body drops in this knowing now, ever deeper, protected in this loving awareness. And so that... The morning will bring a feeling of gentle refreshment ready for the day. And that sense of all is so very well and the sound of my voice takes you deeper and deeper inside. The breath...soft...deep into the quiet...you can rest now...nothing more is required.

Allowing yourself to drift in being held by this beautiful sense of nature. Simply with you as the breeze becomes a lullaby of soothing with your breath now. And everything you hear in this beautiful music softens your body as you drift ever deeper. And deeper. Your body’s wisdom gently flowing down into deeper relaxation and the deepest restorative soothing sleep. All as well.

Music: “Harmony Across Earth” by Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com.