Sleep Archive

Learn to Guide Relaxation Meditation For Sleep

Stress, anxiety and mental rumination can keep us up at night. Guide yourself or others in meditation for relaxation and sleep using a meditation script.

Bedtime Guided Meditation For Better Sleep

This mindfulness bedtime meditation may help you wind down for sleep. Use this meditation script to settle for the night, or guide someone else to sleep.

A Restful Train Ride Sleep Meditation Script

In the guided sleep meditation script, you’ll take a sleepy train ride into deep rest. Use it for personal practice, or use it to guide others.

Meditation for Sleep Guided by Jason Stephenson

If stress, anxiety or ruminative thoughts are keeping you awake at night, sleep meditation may help. Sleep meditation is a relaxing guided practice you do while lying in bed at night. Unlike daytime meditation, which invites us to remain alert and awake, sleep meditation encourages us to welcome drowsiness and drift off to sleep. A […]

Sleep Meditation – Compassion for Friend

Sleep meditation – Compassion for Friend. Today, bring to mind someone from your life who you care about and you know that there’s difficulty.

Sleep Meditation – Compassion for Friend and Self

Sleep Meditation – Compassion for Friend and Self. Today, we’ll expand and move our compassion outward onto a broader range.

Sleep Meditation – Coming Home to the Breath

Sleep meditation – Coming home to the breath. Take a few moments just to relax the body. Coming into a place of stillness and ease.

Sleep Meditation – Body Scan

Sleep Meditation – Body Scan. Today, we’ll be focused on doing something called a body scan meditation. Scanning through the body.

Sleep Meditation – Counting 1 to 10

Sleep meditation – Counting 1 to 10. In today’s practice, we’ll be using the technique of counting and counting our breaths.

Sleep Meditation – Gratitude Body Scan

Sleep Meditation – Gratitude Body Scan. Today, we’ll be adding in a little twist, so we’ll be doing a gratitude body scan. Moving through…

Sleep Meditation – Curiosity Body Scan

Sleep meditation – Curiosity Body Scan. Today’s practice will be getting curious about what you’re feeling in each different part of the body.

Sleep Meditation – Equanimity

Sleep Meditation – Equanimity. This practice is focused on cultivating the quality of equanimity. The state of inner balance, inner peace.

Sleep Meditation – Metta Benefactor

Sleep meditation – Metta Benefactor. Think of someone in your life who has cared for you in some way. Consider this person a benefactor.

Sleep Meditation – Labelling

Sleep Meditation – Labelling. Today, we’ll be using our awareness to just notice whatever’s arising in our experience as we fall asleep.

Sleep Meditation – Metta Friends and Self

Sleep meditation – Metta Friends and Self. Today we’ll include yourself to learning how to send well-wishes in your own direction as well.

Sleep Meditation – Nothing to Do

A guided sleep meditation script about giving yourself permission to be here, with nothing to do, nothing to accomplish, and nowhere to be.

Sleep Meditation – Mountain Visualization

Sleep meditation – Mountain Visualization. To cultivate inner peace and balance, the imagery we’ll be using today is that of a mountain.

Sleep Meditation – Ocean Visualization

Sleep Meditation – Ocean Visualization. Today, we’ll do a visualization practice, conjuring up an image to help soothe and relax the mind.

Sleep Meditation – Metta Friends

Sleep meditation – Metta Friends. We’ll continue with this practice of loving-kindness. Cultivating a well-wishing for those around us.

Sleep Meditation – Resting the Body

Sleep Meditation – Resting the Body. Today, focus on just settling and relaxing. Letting go of any tension or tightness from the body.

Sleep Meditation – Tonglen

Sleep meditation – Tonglen. Tonglen is Tibetan for taking and sending and this is a form of meditation that we can use to cultivate goodwill.

Sleep Meditation – Thoughts Like Clouds

Sleep Meditation- Thoughts like clouds. There’s a useful metaphor that we can use. That thoughts are just like clouds floating in the sky.

Sleep Meditation – Soundscape

Sleep meditation – Soundscape. Today we’ll be practicing with sound. Mindful listening and opening up to the soundscape around us.

Sleep Meditation – Spacious Awareness

Sleep Meditation – Spacious Awareness. To do this practice we’ll simply be opening up the awareness to all of our senses. Noticing anything..

Mindfulness Body Scan for Better Sleep

A guided body scan script for bedtime, built around the image of the body as a body of light. It is an invitation to rest, not a promise of sleep.

How to Meditate Into Sleep

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

Settling Your Mind By Picturing Your Body As A Bowl

Picturing Your Body As A Bowl. One of the many ways you can settle the mind down when it becomes active. You may use it as a stand-alone practice.

Total Body Relaxation For Sleep

A guided meditation script with a detailed body scan that relaxes each part of the body in turn, to help you wind down toward sleep.

Simple Sleep Meditation

Simple Sleep Meditation. A guided meditation for sleep, this one has listeners feeling deeply into the comforts of sleep. It’s simple, sweet, & soothing.

10 Sleep Meditation Scripts

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

Visualizing A Beautiful Island For Sleep

Visualizing A Beautiful Island For Sleep is a great guided meditation script that allows for relaxation and smoothly transition to good night’s sleep.

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation

Seven free mindfulness exercises for relaxation, plus a look at the relaxation response, what gets in the way of relaxing, and five simple habits that may help.

4 Guided Meditation Scripts for Better Sleep

The number of hours we sleep each night is in decline. From 9 hours of sleep on average in 1910 to less than 7 hours for today’s American adult, a drastic decrease in slumbering hours is evident. To wake up feeling rested, adults require between 7 and 8 hours of solid sleep. It’s a duration […]

10 Mindfulness Exercises for Sleep

For those who struggle to get a good night’s sleep: you’re not alone. Mindfulness exercises can help. Here are 10 mindfulness exercises for sleep.

Tranquil Meditation Sleep Music

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

5 Meditations for Sleep

A good night’s sleep is something we might take for granted – until we struggle to attain it, that is. If you are one of the many who struggle to fall (or to stay) asleep, rest assured you’re not alone. According to statistics, somewhere between 50 and 70 million adults in the United States suffer […]

New Silent Meditations With Bell Sounds

If meditating with a teacher is not your thing, you can download our free audios of silent meditation with bell sounds. Follow the bell sounds to focus.

Angelic Healing Music | 528Hz + 396Hz

A long sleep track built on the 528 Hz tone, which sound-healing tradition calls the love frequency or miracle tone, with occasional hits of 396 Hz.

TIBETAN FLUTE MUSIC + OM CHANTING @432Hz

Tibetan flute music with a chanted Om in the background, for a yoga practice or for relaxing.

432Hz | Healing Music | Derived from Cosmos

An 8-hour track of 432 Hz music that its creator describes as derived from the cosmos, with context on the traditional claims made about this frequency.

Sleeping Music with Healing Waves and Harp Sounds

Sleep music with harp sounds and added delta waves, which its creator offers to support rest, relaxation, and meditation.

Cleansing Aura For Sleep – A Spoken Meditation

A guided sleep meditation by Jason Stephenson with soothing music, intended to help you relax and let go of stress before sleep.

Peaceful Sleep Music

“Love” Peaceful Music is specially selected by Jason Stephenson to help you relax and go to sleep. Use it during meditation or as background music.

Hypnosis Utopia Sleep Meditation [Video]

Do you have trouble falling asleep? This guided sleep meditation video by Jason Stephenson may help you wind down for the night.

Calming Mindfulness Meditation Before Sleeping

Listen to this short mindfulness meditation by Jason Stephenson, followed by 45 minutes of peaceful sleep music to help you connect to this moment.

Relaxing Sleep Music [Video]

Listen to this 3 hours of soothing relaxation music by Peder B. Helland and let go of your daily worries to help you sleep.

• Tara Brach

Mindfulness of Sensations and Breath

Tara Brach takes you through The Art and Science of Meditation. Listen to the first session as it explores the basic types of meditation and mindfulness.

• Mark Coleman

Sky Gazing Meditation with Chris Sharma

Mark Coleman leads Chris Sharma through a 6 minute Sky Gazing Meditation that will settle you down and open your mind. Be inspired to follow along.

Isochronic Tones – Delta Meditation

A video featuring isochronic tones set to a slow fractal animation. The creator describes the tones as a way to settle into a quiet, deep state; that is the creator’s experience, not an established finding.

Binaural Beats Sleep Meditation: Root Chakra Activation Music

A binaural beats sleep meditation built around the 396 Hz solfeggio tone, which sound-healing tradition links to the root chakra and to letting go of fear and guilt.

Sleep Meditation: Floating Amongst Stars

An hour-long guided meditation for sleep, designed to help you achieve a state of deep relaxation to promote better sleep & enter a deeply relaxed state!

Guided Meditation For Sleeping

A spoken meditation clip to assist you in falling asleep in a relaxed manner, followed by cozy & ambient sounds of a log cabin and a gentle fire crackling.

Floating Clouds Sleep Talk down Guided Meditation Visualization

A spoken 'talk down' guided meditation for sleep, voiced by Jason Stephenson and produced by Sleep Ezy Tonight, built around a floating-clouds visualization.

Guided Meditation To End Your Day

A 13-minute guided meditation from Boho Beautiful for the end of the day, filmed beside the River Kwai in Thailand and made to help you unwind before sleep.

Guided meditation for a deep peaceful and calm sleep

Settle toward a peaceful, calm sleep with this guided meditation with binaural beats. If you can, use headphones, since binaural beats rely on a slightly different tone in each ear. You guys asked for binaural beats and here they are. Settle toward a peaceful, deep sleep with this guided meditation. I give you a couple of minutes before the meditation […]

Surrender Meditation (Letting Go of Control)

Jason Stephenson leads the surrender meditation (letting go of control) to promote better sleep, peaceful meditation before sleep and inspired living.

ASMR Close Whisper Guided Sleep / Muscle Relaxation (with countdown)

A quick whispered guided sleep and muscle relaxation with a countdown, from TingleBelleASMR, made for relaxing before sleep.

Before Sleep | Chakra Balance

A spoken chakra alignment meditation by Jason Stephenson, to listen to before sleep.

Devi Prayer: Gentle, Peaceful Music

Devi Prayer is gentle, peaceful music, performed by Craig Pruess and Ananda. You might play it quietly during meditation, rest or reflection.

Open Third Eye Chakra: Sleep, Healing, Calm Sleep Meditation Music

Meditative music for working with the Third Eye Chakra, which chakra tradition links with intuition, insight, and inner vision.

Deep Relaxing Sleep Music: Go For Your Deepest Sleep

This 3-hour, non-stop video features sleep music by Jason Stephenson that incorporates delta tones.

Sleep Music Delta Waves: Relaxing Music to Help you Sleep

If you have trouble sleeping, this 45-minute sleep music with delta-wave tones is a calming soundtrack to help you settle toward restfulness and slumber.

Guided Sleep Meditation for Insomnia Relief (Sleep, Relaxation, Calm)

A spoken guided sleep meditation for relaxation, with music and rain sounds, plus eight bedtime habits that may help you wind down.

Sleep Guided Meditation (Spoken): Relax & Sleep Deeply

A healing deep sleep meditation by Jason Stephenson. Come inside the log cabin with the log fire, enjoy the moments as fire crackles and the rain pours.

Lucid Dreaming

Jason Silva talks about lucid dreaming, the potential to transform what it means to be human, to turn subjective experience into living, breathing painting.

A Truly Life Changing Guided Meditation for Sleep

A guided sleep meditation by Lauren Ostrowski Fenton, designed to help you settle into sleep at bedtime and wake up clear and focused.

Sleep Meditation – Fall Asleep – Bedtime Zen

This guided bedtime sleep meditation helps you settle into deep relaxation and fall asleep. You may wake in the morning feeling refreshed.

Open Third Eye Chakra: Calm Sleep, Meditation, Balancing & Healing

It is the spiritual eye that seeks to see & know the truth in all things & that from the 6th of the 7 chakra we look at the world from all aspects of self.

Aura Cleansing Sleep Meditation: 7 Chakras

A bedtime meditation with changing musical frequencies, described as clearing the aura and balancing the seven chakras. It complements, and does not replace, professional care.

Deep Sleep Meditation Music for Insomnia

Millions of people struggle with insomnia, but this meditation music can help you experience a better night of sleep. Check out this free meditation.

Rain Sounds – 10 Hours

Listen to 10 hours of non-stop rain sounds for meditation, yoga, massage, or winding down at night.

432 Hz Frequency Music for Sleeping and Deep Relaxation

Please enjoy this 9 hour long video by Nu Meditation Music that is tuned at 432 hz for Sleeping and Deep Relaxation. Queue this up just before your night’s rest and let it settle around your evening. Nu Meditation Music is […]

Sleep Chakra Meditation Music

Heart chakra sleep meditation music from Nu Meditation Music, a YouTube channel of long meditation music videos. Balancing and healing are the creator’s framing.

9 Hours Sleep Music

This nine-hour piece of relaxing music for sleep is a soft and restorative backdrop we might use to improve our slumber. Many of us struggle to fall (or to stay) asleep, and yet there are tools we can use to improve the restfulness of these midnight hours. Sleep music is one of these tools, though […]

Solar Plexus Activation & Healing, Kundalini Sleep Music

Use this sleep meditation music for solar plexus activation. Combine with Kundalini sleep music to acquire self-empowerment, integrity and self-respect. The 6th Ray of “Devotion” governs this chakra. This chakra symbol connects us with the energy to “act” and is the seat of self-esteem and expressing our personal power. Our relationship to the world around […]

Before Sleep Ho’oponopono Affirmation Meditation

Find out how you can use Ho’oponopono, an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness, as a daily meditation prayer. Ho’oponopono is a traditional Hawaiian prayer of forgiveness. Use this recording just before sleep: the speaking fades away over the last 15 minutes, leaving only the music at the end.

Guided Sleep Meditation by Deepak Chopra

A guided sleep meditation led by Deepak Chopra: a calming exercise that may help you settle into rest at the end of the day.

Fall Asleep in 10 Minutes

A calming guided sleep talk-down by The Honest Guys, with a gentle beat that gets calmer as the recording progresses. It runs about ten and a half minutes.