Sleep Regulating Flow

Welcome to this night session. This is perfect to do before you go to bed, actually when you are in the bed. So I suggest that you take a good position in your bed because your bed is a space where you want to feel that calmness, like that you're soothing yourself, that the mind is coming to rest, where you just feel good and safe. So sit in your bed, that’s the best, or at the side of your bed with maybe the legs at the side of the bed, and directly take your mind into your body. Just let everything else go. Nothing is important right now. Your sleep is the most important of everything. The yin aspect, the female aspect, the time when you know that your body can restore and recharge. So just let your back relax. Let your shoulder blades and your shoulders relax. You can move them a bit so that you know that you're really dropping your shoulders. The neck holds up the head, so the top of your head is kind of stretching up. Keep one part of your mind to the top of your head, and the other part of your mind, like an inner eye, down towards your lower back, your lower abdomen, and where you're sitting — your sit bones. Put the hands in front of your chest, palm towards each other. Just take an inhale and exhale. You can start by bringing one hand with the palm downward towards the top of the head and the other hand above that hand, a few centimeters above. They are not touching each other, but both palms are over each other. So the middle of your palms are both facing down toward the top of your head. In this position, just gently follow the midline of your front. So your forehead, your face, throat, chest — like you’re trickling, flowing water that is soothing you, bringing the mind and thoughts down, linking them downward toward mother Earth. And one more time, it doesn't matter which hand is underneath, the middle of the palms are over the top of your head. Again, bring them forward — over your forehead, over your nose and throat — and let yourself relax and soothe. What you're passing all the way down connects the gland on the top of the head, the pineal gland, responsible for releasing the sleep hormone melatonin, connecting it down to the deeper aspects of your kidneys, your reproductive system. Okay. Now put the hands in each other and thumbs toward each other so that you're creating an open space at the lowest part of your lower abdomen. Imagine there can be a color, like a soft wind bringing a color straight into your lower abdomen, filling up the space there. If you don’t find a color that’s fine. If you don’t get the wind, that’s fine too. Just keep your focus there — that’s the main point here. Letting that space grow and grow. Take both palms and gently stroke along the arm, above the ear, behind the ear, around the ear, until you feel the indentation under the ear. Go there. And from there, follow the sides of your throat all the way down. Put the hands gently on your shoulders. Tell your shoulders to relax. Those muscles can be totally calm, soft. Let your hands keep the movement down the back of the hands, meeting and following the midline down — soothing down. Bring the hands up to your heart area and place them over your heart. “I am accepting anything that is in my mind, my emotions, or my personality. All that is fine right now. And I know that I have given things today. I have also received things today.” Palms rising, elbows opening outward, palms downward, and from the same heart area, helping yourself gently bring that back down. Just letting go. It’s okay. Connecting to this open space again, and again any color that comes to mind — let that color gently blow in from the outside, supporting your lower abdomen and the very lowest part of your pelvis, filling it with good, calm energy. Good calm energy in your whole pelvis. From there, let the space open so that the hands separate. Bring the hands up to the sides of the head, stroking above the ears, behind the ears, around the ears, all the way until you’re under the ears. Let the hands come down, relaxing the shoulders, letting go, letting the hands fall down. Bring the hands in a circle up to the heart area. “Again, I accept everything that’s going on in me right now. That’s okay. All emotions. Any worries or fears — that’s okay. I just let that be. It’s fine. I know I have given things today and I also have received things.” “I bring all these back.” Hands over each other, turning palms downward, gently pressing that down toward mother Earth — letting go and letting God. Put the hands in the mudra, keep an open space, and let yourself breathe into the lungs and further down so that you feel your stomach, maybe even your lower back, moving — pulsating from the breath your body is creating right now. It could be like a soothing color coming in, trickling through that open space of your hands to help calm and fill your lower abdomen and pelvic area, giving support, giving a foundation, letting the mind be there — like soaking the mind into that space. Slowly separate the hands and bring them to the sides of the head, stroking along the ear, behind along the throat. Let the hands tell the shoulders to drop — like water trickling down. The hands follow the midline all the way down as far as they go. Bring the hands up again, placing them over the heart. The heart sees everything and is the organizer of all the emotions and everything that happens. “I accept everything I have there — everything that’s me, everything that has happened today. I let that come to rest. I know I have given things. I have received things. I trust in the balance of yin and yang.” Bring things back and down, palms downward, soothing. Bring that all the way down as far as you can, turn the hands, and go up to the top of the head. One hand a few centimeters above the top of the head, the other two centimeters above. Stay there a few seconds, breathing into that feeling of connecting to the top of the head — the gland that secretes melatonin that you need for sleep. This whole hormonal system, this whole female aspect — connecting to the ren channel, the conception channel — soothing, cooling. Keep focus on the hands, and also with one eye further into the body. Do this one more time to finish. Hands up, slowly passing the midline of the body — cooling, soothing — all the way down as far as the hands go. Finish with your mudra, hands together, thumbs toward each other. Let your mind stay where the hands are — in the area of the pelvis — feeling the sitting bones, dropping the shoulders, letting the body breathe. Hands together to finish. Please stay sitting if you feel like that. I wish you a really good night's sleep. Good night.