Let Go of the Day: A Gentle Bedtime Meditation

let the weight of your body sink deep into where you're resting tonight last night we spoke about leaving our worries behind and here we are again ready to lay the whole day down good evening sugar the street is quiet now the porch light is off and you're safe right here in this room you don't have to carry anything at all before sleep feel the cool air coming in through your nose filling you up soft and slow let it go out easy like a long sigh that's been waiting all day to leave inhale that quiet grace

exhale every rush every hurried step and loud noise from your afternoon mhmm let the breath find its own rhythm rolling in and rolling out like gentle water there's nowhere else you need to be tonight notice your shoulders now softening away from your ears let that tightness around your eyes and in your jaw smooth out melt away your hands can open up uncurling the work they held from dawn to dusk

feel that heaviness moving down through your chest down through your hips and legs all the weight of your toes the bed has got you held baby supporting every inch of you picture a soft evening sky above you broad and deep blue without an edge in sight when a leftover thought from today drifts up into your mind place it gently on a white cloud don't wrestle with it or judge yourself for having it watch that cloud float on past carrying that thought away into the dusk

another thought rises and another cloud takes it softly into the distance look at all that open peaceful sky left behind rest inside that wide quiet space you made everything you did today was enough and what's left undone can wait for morning light tomorrow we'll meet you kind sleep peaceful now honey mhmm good night