Sleep Peacefully

Welcome to the Healthy Mindset App Podcast where host Mike Hartman, a performance coach and former professional athlete, brings his passion to help athletes and workplace athletes achieve their dreams and goals while being mindful of everything else in life. Mike also uses this platform to share his targeted assessment applications Healthy Mindset Course Meditation and Goal Setting Technique for the Athlete and Workplace Athlete we're glad you're here. Now let's dive headfirst into this episode of the Healthy Mindset App Podcast Podcast. Here's your host, Mike Hartman.

To begin this meditation. Please bring kind awareness to why you chose this topic. How your belly, chest and head each feel when you reflect on this topic the emotions that you can associate with these visceral feelings the positive or negative impact of any stories you believe in regarding this topic the fact that many others are feeling similarly about this topic as you how you might feel with increased awareness around this topic when you can apply increased mindfulness to this topic in your day to day life Sleep through Body Relaxation. Make sure you're in a very comfortable position and that you will not be disturbed. You can listen to this hypnosis be it in the day when you can catch a break, or at night when you're ready to float off into a long night's sleep. Take a large breath is pulling in as much air as you can and just let it go. Allow yourself another full and beautiful breath, letting it go without pushing the air out too hard. Take one more breath in your own time, as full as you can, holding it for a moment and let the air go. Nice. Taking a few big breaths whenever you are ready to rest is now your priority. Begin to focus on your right palm. Relax your right palm and hand. Relax each finger one by one. Relax your right wrist, your forearm, your elbow. Relax your right bicep and entire upper arms. Relax your right shoulder and down to your right hip, relaxing it too. You Relax your right leg all the way down to your right ankle and foot. Each toe on your right foot slowly lets go completely bring your awareness up. Now the right side of your neck, relaxing it. Allow any sounds you hear to feel like tiny waves of relaxation going into your right ear. The entire right side of your head fully relaxes. Your right brain relaxes, allowing creativity to be fully accessible. Your entire right side is fully calm and relaxed. Sleep is easy for you when you feel this relaxed. Good. Begin to focus on your left palm. Relax your left palm and hand. Relax each finger one by one. Relax your left wrist, your forearm, your elbow. Relax your left bicep and entire upper arms Relax your left shoulder and down to your left hip, relaxing it too. You relax your left leg all the way down to your right ankle and foot. Each toe on your left foot slowly lets go Completely bring your awareness up. Now the left side of your neck, relaxing it. 3. Allow any sounds you hear to feel like tiny waves of relaxation going into your left ear. The entire left side of your head fully relaxes. Your left brain relaxes, allowing rationality to be fully accessible. Your entire left side is fully calm and relaxed. This makes bring you closer to falling asleep. Good. Now bring your awareness to your back. Starting with the back of your head. Allow the weight of the back of your head to generate relaxation. The back of your next relaxes your shoulders and shoulder blades. Fully relax. Your entire upper back is completely relaxed. Your spine relaxes starting from the neck. Slowly going down bone by bone. Relaxing your nervous system that runs through the spine. There are 33 bones in your spine and each one of them is relaxing one by one. Good. Your lower back relaxes as it presses against the surface. You are laying on your hips, pelvis and glutes. Relax the back of your legs all the way down to your ankles relaxes. This makes you feel so sleepy. Good. We are going to go through one more focus scan on the front of our bodies, starting at your forehead. Many of us hold tension in our foreheads, So allow your forehead to just melt away, allowing wrinkles to flatten. This also relaxes the frontal cortex of the brain, the place of creative formulation. Relax your eyes now and notice they are making tiny movements. These movements are called rapid eye movement which allow you to relax even more. And notice your nose and how the air passes through. Allow this flow to relax you. Relax your mouth and your tongue. Relax your throat going down. Relaxing your entire lungs. Relax your heart. Relax your ribs and stomach. Allow off of your vital organs to relax your liver, pancreas, spleen, kidneys. Your entire digestive system. Relaxes your reproductive organs. Completely. Relax the tops of your legs. Relax all the way down the tops of your feet. Good. Every single part of your body is so relaxed right now. Just enjoy this feeling for some time. Now you're going to relax your body one more time, but in a different way. A fully relaxed body makes sleep come easily and effortlessly. Make a fist with both of your hands and squeeze as hard as you can for five seconds. Then let go completely. This is called tensing or tense. Tense your entire arms. Flexing every muscle in your arms for five whole seconds and release completely. Now tense your chest and abs as much as you can, holding it for an entire five seconds and relax your chest and abs. Tense your pelvis and hips and reproductive organs, holding tension firmly for five seconds and relax this area. Tense your entire legs as much as you can, holding this tension for five whole seconds and release the leg muscles completely relaxing your legs. And lastly, tense your feet as much as you can, holding 2, 3, 4, 5 and relax your feet good. By doing this, you activate and then deactivate each muscle in your body, causing a continuous relaxation. Now just stop doing anything at all. Don't flex or relax anything. Don't activate or rest any area. Just allow yourself to be. Allow for your body to adjust to anything it sees as needed. Allow for your body to have complete freedom from thought. Let your body be in control now to heal what needs to be healed, or activate what needs to activate or rest what needs to rest. It will do exactly as it needs now without your conscious effort or even your suggestion. This is the natural state of your body when you allow the mind to step away from it. When your mind gets out of the way, our bodies can take charge in miraculous ways. Changing hormones, chemicals, frequencies, the very structure of each cell. This is what sleep and rest are for. Sleeping fully allows for our mind to let go of the body so that it can regenerate for a long while. Now allow your body to do what it does best. Rest and sleep.

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