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The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
Release the Day: 15-Minute Deep Sleep Body Scan
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A slow, Yoga Nidra-inspired body scan to help your body soften and your mind go quiet at the end of the day. You will move gently from head to toe, releasing tension as you go, then drift into a calm, spacious stillness that makes it easier to fall asleep.
A quiet Stoic thread runs underneath it: release what you cannot change, and come back to the only place you ever actually rest, this moment.
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Welcome to this sleep meditation. Yourself comfortable in bed. Your pillows, your blankets. Your body find its natural sleeping position. Deep breath in with a long slow exhale. Body begin to sink into the mattress beneath you. Need to do anything else tonight? Complete a slow breath. Exhale yourself settling deeper. Relax. Move through your body now, releasing tension over it hides. At the top of your head. Move to your forehead. Smooth out any furrows. All the thinking relax. Your eyes heavy and still. More seeing needed tonight. Your cheeks, your jaw, your mouth falls slightly open. Release any clenching.
SPEAKER_03Your neck rough and supported.
SPEAKER_01Shoulders dropping away from your ears. Nothing to carry right now. Shoulders to elbows. To fingertips, heavy, relaxed, sinking into the bed. Effort required. Your entire body now is deeply relaxed. Imagine yourself floating weaklessly on a soft cloud or a calm, warm ocean, simply suspended in peaceful darkness. No effort needed to stay here. You are completely held.