Let It Drift Away: A Gentle Nighttime Meditation

let yourself settle right here in this quiet moment last time we found our quiet place together letting the day slip away into stillness tonight we'll let it drift away gently like a leaf on a stream begin with your breath just noticing feel the gentle rise and fall of your body the air may be a little cool as it enters your nose and warmer as it leaves each breath is a soft quiet wave washing in and washing out there's nothing you need to do but feel this slow steady rhythm it was here all along now in your mind's eye picture a calm slow moving

stream it flows without hurry through a quiet peaceful wood as you watch the water allow a thought or a feeling from your day to come to mind see it clearly and then imagine it as a single dry leaf gently place that leaf on the surface of the water and just watch watch it begin to float caught by the gentle current drifting away effortless you don't have to push the stream does all the work perhaps you feel a tightness in your shoulders let that be a small smooth stone place it in the water and watch it settle on the bottom a worry in your mind another leaf

let it go watch it float downstream growing smaller and smaller until it disappears around the band all that's left is the quiet sound of the water the stillness rest here the stream flows on even when you're not watching carrying everything away for you tonight you don't have to carry it let it all go now honey let the quiet hold you let sleep find you right here in this peaceful place rest easy