Speaker 1: I know today may have felt heavy for you, my dear,
Speaker 1: but this is a safe space now, and you may
Speaker 1: put everything down for a little while. You do not
Speaker 1: have to fix your whole life to night. You do
Speaker 1: not have to solve every problem before sleep comes. You
Speaker 1: do not have to explain the whole day to yourself
Speaker 1: one more time. You only need to end the day gently.
Speaker 1: That is enough, more than enough. So take a deep
Speaker 1: breath with me now. Let the shoulders drop, let the
Speaker 1: jaw soften, let the belly stop holding on so tightly,
Speaker 1: and just notice what it feels like to be here
Speaker 1: in this moment with nothing to prove, nothing to perform,
Speaker 1: nothing to chase. A peaceful ending creates a half beginning,
Speaker 1: It really does. So I want to ask you something
Speaker 1: very softly before we go any further. If tomorrow we're
Speaker 1: a gift waiting to be opened, what feeling would you
Speaker 1: like to open it with? Would you like to open
Speaker 1: it with fear, with pressure, with dread, or with a
Speaker 1: little hope, a little trust, a little quiet expectancy that
Speaker 1: something good may come, even if you do not yet
Speaker 1: know the form it will take. Because the way you
Speaker 1: close the day matters, the tone you use with yourself.
Speaker 1: Tonight becomes part of the atmosphere you wake up into tomorrow.
Speaker 1: The way you end this day helps shape the way
Speaker 1: you begin the next one. And that is such good
Speaker 1: news because it means tonight can be very simple. You
Speaker 1: do not need to repair everything. You only need to
Speaker 1: stop wounding yourself before sleep. You only need to become
Speaker 1: a little more loving, a little more peaceful, a little
Speaker 1: more willing to let the body know that for this night,
Speaker 1: at least it may rest. One of the sweetest secrets
Speaker 1: I know is that you do not have to know
Speaker 1: exactly what tomorrow will bring in order to feel good
Speaker 1: about it now. In fact, some of the happiest mornings
Speaker 1: begin the night before with a little excitement for the unknown.
Speaker 1: I like that so much. There is something very healing
Speaker 1: in allowing yourself to believe that life may still surprise you. Kindly.
Speaker 1: We get so used to expecting trouble, expecting effort, expecting
Speaker 1: one more thing to manage, one more burden to carry,
Speaker 1: one more little problem to solve. But what if you
Speaker 1: stopped doing that to night? What if instead of preparing
Speaker 1: your nervous system for struggle, you prepared it for goodness.
Speaker 1: Not in some silly, forced way, not by pretending that
Speaker 1: nothing difficult ever happens, but by saying I do not
Speaker 1: know everything tomorrow will hold, and still I am willing
Speaker 1: to believe something interesting, something lovely, something helpful, something kind
Speaker 1: may come my way. That is a very different energy
Speaker 1: to fall asleep in. It tells the subconscious to look
Speaker 1: for life instead of danger. It tells the heart that
Speaker 1: the future is not automatically an enemy. So I want
Speaker 1: you to begin setting the tone very simply, say slowly,
Speaker 1: tomorrow will be a wonderful day. Again, tomorrow will be
Speaker 1: a wonderful day. And once more, even softer, even slower,
Speaker 1: tomorrow will be a wonderful day. Do not rush these words.
Speaker 1: Let them fall into the body. Let them become part
Speaker 1: of the mattress, part of the pillow, part of the
Speaker 1: air around you. You are teaching the mind what to expect.
Speaker 1: You are not demanding a perfect day. You are inviting
Speaker 1: the mind to notice the good Tomorrow begins in the
Speaker 1: thoughts you plant tonight. Expectation is a kind of inner direction.
Speaker 1: If you go to sleep expecting difficulty, the mind will
Speaker 1: keep scanning for it. If you go to sleep expecting goodness,
Speaker 1: the mind becomes a little more open, a little more welcoming,
Speaker 1: a little less defensive. That'll changes so much, And I
Speaker 1: think people forget how powerful that is. They think the
Speaker 1: morning begins when they open their eyes, but so often
Speaker 1: the morning begins in the last few thoughts of the night.
Speaker 1: And then there is the body, my dear, the beautiful,
Speaker 1: faithful body that does so much for you while you sleep.
Speaker 1: Sleep is not only rest. Sleep is one of the
Speaker 1: great healing rooms of life. While you are sleeping, especially
Speaker 1: in those deeper and dreaming phases, the body and mind
Speaker 1: are processing, settling, sorting, clearing, repairing. Emotional strain that was
Speaker 1: too tangled during the day begins to move differently. The
Speaker 1: nervous system gets a chance to soften, the cells get
Speaker 1: a chance to restore. The whole being begins doing quiet
Speaker 1: work that you do not have to supervise. And that
Speaker 1: is why the thoughts you offer yourself before sleep matter
Speaker 1: so much. If you fill the last moments of the
Speaker 1: day with fear, criticism, self attack, or endless mental rehearsing,
Speaker 1: then the whole system goes to bed, still braced, still guarded,
Speaker 1: still uncertain whether it is safe enough to let go.
Speaker 1: But if you offer the body thoughts of love, thoughts
Speaker 1: of safety, thoughts of reassurance. The whole healing machinery of
Speaker 1: sleep can work much more kindly. Sleep is not only rest.
Speaker 1: Sleep is a healing room. Safety is medicine. I want
Speaker 1: you to remember that the body recovers better when it
Speaker 1: feels safe, The heart of unwinds better when it feels held.
Speaker 1: The mind settles better when it is not still being
Speaker 1: chased by your own inner voice. So to night, before sleep,
Speaker 1: do not tell yourself one more frightening story. Do not
Speaker 1: turn one little worry into tomorrow's funeral procession. Do not
Speaker 1: use your last waking minutes to rehearse every unresolved thing. Instead,
Speaker 1: place your hand on your heart and say, I am safe.
Speaker 1: All is well again, I am safe, all is well.
Speaker 1: Let those words become a blanket. Let them be the
Speaker 1: signal to the nervous system that says you may let
Speaker 1: go now, you may rest now. You do not have
Speaker 1: to stay on watch all night. And if your mind
Speaker 1: wants to jump in with old worries, smile at it
Speaker 1: gently and come back. Tomorrow will be a wonderful day.
Speaker 1: I am safe, all is well. That is enough for tonight.
Speaker 1: That is a loving place to stop. That is a
Speaker 1: beautiful way to hand yourself over to healing. I remember
Speaker 1: a time when I would go to bed with my
Speaker 1: whole day still inside me, My dear, my body was
Speaker 1: in bed, but my mind was still at the office,
Speaker 1: still in old conversations, still in tomorrow morning, still trying
Speaker 1: to fix things that could not be fixed at eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock at night. And then I would wonder why sleep
Speaker 1: did not feel RESTful, Why I woke up tired. Why
Speaker 1: my heart felt as though it had been working the
Speaker 1: whole night through. Perhaps you know that feeling too. Perhaps
Speaker 1: you lie down and instead of resting, you begin holding
Speaker 1: committee meetings in your mind. One thought speaks, then another,
Speaker 1: then another, and before long the whole room inside is noisy.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you something very softly tonight. What
Speaker 1: if bedtime were not the place where you keep carrying everything,
Speaker 1: but the place where you lovingly put it down. That
Speaker 1: is what I want for you. I do not want
Speaker 1: you to drag the whole unfinished day into your sleep
Speaker 1: and then expect your poor nervous system to turn it
Speaker 1: into peace without any help from you. I want you
Speaker 1: to begin giving your mind a cleaner ending, a gentler hand.
Speaker 1: Off a softer little bridge into tomorrow, Because how you
Speaker 1: end the day matters. It matters to the body, it
Speaker 1: matters to the mind, it matters to the heart. A
Speaker 1: day that is ended gently becomes a softer tomorrow. And
Speaker 1: so I want to give you three very simple bedtime practices,
Speaker 1: very practical, very doable, and very loving, so that happiness
Speaker 1: begins to feel less like an accident and more like
Speaker 1: something you are quietly preparing for, not by force, not
Speaker 1: by pretending, but by giving your inner life a little order,
Speaker 1: a little closure, and a little hope before sleep arrives.
Speaker 1: The first one I love so much because it is
Speaker 1: wonderfully ordinary, and ordinary things often heal us more than
Speaker 1: dramatic ones. Do. I call it the brain dump. Give
Speaker 1: yourself one minute, just one minute, and write down everything
Speaker 1: that is still spinning in your mind. The things to do,
Speaker 1: the worry, the call you forgot to make, the thing
Speaker 1: you still need to decide, the little irritation, the sentence
Speaker 1: you wish you had said differently, the half finished plan,
Speaker 1: the concern about tomorrow. Put it all on the page.
Speaker 1: Do not try to make it pretty, do not make
Speaker 1: it wise, Do not turn it into literature. Let it
Speaker 1: be messy. If it wants to be messy, let it
Speaker 1: be a pile. If it wants to be a pile.
Speaker 1: The point is not beauty. The point is transfer. You
Speaker 1: are moving things out of the looping mind and into
Speaker 1: a container that can hold them while you rest. The
Speaker 1: brain becomes quieter when it knows there is somewhere else
Speaker 1: to put what it is carrying. And then, at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the page, I want you to write one
Speaker 1: little sentence. Tomorrow, I will handle this. That is such
Speaker 1: a loving sentence. It tells the mind. You do not
Speaker 1: have to keep repeating this all night in order to
Speaker 1: prove it matters. I have written it down, I have
Speaker 1: seen it. I will return to it tomorrow. Writing it
Speaker 1: down is how you tell the mind it has been stored. Now.
Speaker 1: The mind quiets when it knows there is a place
Speaker 1: to put things you see. So often the mind repeats
Speaker 1: because it is afraid you will forget. It is not
Speaker 1: always trying to torture you. Sometimes it is trying, in
Speaker 1: its own tired little way, to protect you. So when
Speaker 1: you give it a page, you are giving it reassurance.
Speaker 1: You are saying, thank you, sweetheart, I know this matters.
Speaker 1: We do not need to rehearse it seventeen more times
Speaker 1: to night. I have found that people sleep so much
Speaker 1: better when they stop trying to hold the whole day
Speaker 1: in their heads like a tray piled too high. Put
Speaker 1: it on paper, Let the paper hold it for a while.
Speaker 1: Let your pillow be for rest, not for planning. And
Speaker 1: if the mind starts up again after you have written
Speaker 1: it down, just remind it kindly. No, my dear, it
Speaker 1: is on the page now tomorrow I will handle this.
Speaker 1: That is enough, That is very powerful. That is how
Speaker 1: you begin teaching the mind trust. The second practice is
Speaker 1: what I call a clean ending. And I think this
Speaker 1: is deeply important because so many people do not really
Speaker 1: finish the day. They collapse into sleep still inwardly arguing
Speaker 1: with it. They are still grading themselves, still accusing themselves,
Speaker 1: still deciding whether they were good enough, productive enough, loving enough,
Speaker 1: successful enough, disciplined enough. And the body cannot rest very
Speaker 1: deeply while the inner judge is still awake and pacing.
Speaker 1: So I want you to give the day a clean ending.
Speaker 1: Take one minute and write one simple line. Today is complete,
Speaker 1: Just that feel how healing that is today is complete,
Speaker 1: not perfect, not all figured out, not tied up with
Speaker 1: a shiny ribbon, but complete, finished, enough for now, over
Speaker 1: enough for now. Then add one more line, I did
Speaker 1: my best with what I knew, my dear, I cannot
Speaker 1: tell you how many people need that sentence. They believe
Speaker 1: they may only rest if the day was flawless. They
Speaker 1: believe they may only feel peace if they made no mistakes,
Speaker 1: forgot nothing, spoke beautifully all day, and met every demand
Speaker 1: without ever trembling. But that is not how healing works.
Speaker 1: That is not how loving yourself works. You do not
Speaker 1: need a perfect day to sleep peacefully. You need a
Speaker 1: day that has been gently closed. Completion is kinder than perfection.
Speaker 1: When you write to day is complete, you are ending
Speaker 1: the argument with the day. And when you write I
Speaker 1: did did my best with what I knew, you are
Speaker 1: ending the argument with yourself. That does not mean you
Speaker 1: stop learning. It does not mean you never apologize, never improve,
Speaker 1: never grow. Of course you do. But bedtime is not
Speaker 1: the place for self punishment. Bedtime is the place where
Speaker 1: you become a loving witness to your own humanity. You say,
Speaker 1: all right, sweetheart, perhaps it was not perfect, but it
Speaker 1: was real, and it is done now, and you may
Speaker 1: put it down. I think this is one of the
Speaker 1: gentlest forms of self love. It is not dramatic, it
Speaker 1: is not fancy. It is simply refusing to drag the
Speaker 1: day behind you like a chain when sleep is asking
Speaker 1: you to lie down in peace. So if there was
Speaker 1: a mistake, let tomorrow teach you. If there was an
Speaker 1: un and finish thing, let tomorrow hold it. If there
Speaker 1: was a tender moment, let it be held in compassion
Speaker 1: to night. The day is complete. You did your best
Speaker 1: with what you knew. That is enough to rest on.
Speaker 1: And then the third practice, which I think is so
Speaker 1: lovely and hopeful, is what I call the happiness rewire.
Speaker 1: This is where you stop using the last minute of
Speaker 1: the day to warn yourself about tomorrow and begin using
Speaker 1: it to welcome tomorrow. Instead, take one minute and write
Speaker 1: one sentence using this simple form. When I wake up tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I choose to feel. Perhaps you choose joy, perhaps calm,
Speaker 1: perhaps grateful, perhaps confident, perhaps peaceful, perhaps hopeful, whatever quality
Speaker 1: your heart most needs, place it there. Then write one
Speaker 1: more sentence, I allow good things to surprise me. I
Speaker 1: do love that line. It opens something. It tells the
Speaker 1: subconscious that tomorrow is not automatically a battle field. It
Speaker 1: tells the nervous system that it does not have to
Speaker 1: wake up on guard before the sun is even up.
Speaker 1: It tells the heart that goodness is still allowed to arrive.
Speaker 1: Joy is not only something that visits you. Joy is
Speaker 1: also something you practice receiving. You are creating a path
Speaker 1: for better feeling when you choose it ahead of time.
Speaker 1: And this is not false positivity. It is direction. It
Speaker 1: is a loving instruction to the mind. All day long,
Speaker 1: the mind has been practicing certain roads, worry roads, self
Speaker 1: criticism roads, urgency roads, scarcity roads. Why not before sleep
Speaker 1: begin laying one better road? Why not begin teaching the
Speaker 1: mind tomorrow? We look for calm tomorrow, We welcome joy tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We let gratitude be easier tomorrow. We expect something kind
Speaker 1: to happen, even if it is very small. That is
Speaker 1: how happiness is rewired, sweetheart, not in one giant emotional leap,
Speaker 1: but in these little choices of direction. And I want
Speaker 1: you to notice that the sentence begins with when I
Speaker 1: wake up tomorrow. That is very important because it gives
Speaker 1: the mind a clear moment to step into. It is
Speaker 1: not vague, It is not some day. It is tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: That makes it real, It makes it personal, It makes
Speaker 1: it immediate enough for the subconscious to begin organizing around it.
Speaker 1: So tonight, before sleep, write your one chosen feeling. Then
Speaker 1: write I allow good things to surprise me, and let
Speaker 1: that become the final tone of the day. Let tomorrow
Speaker 1: be something you are willing to greet, not something you
Speaker 1: must defend yourself from before it even begins. And now,
Speaker 1: my dear, I want to give you the last two
Speaker 1: little pieces of this evening practice, because sometimes it is
Speaker 1: the smallest rituals that teach the body the deepest things.
Speaker 1: People imagine that the nervous system only changes through grand breakthroughs,
Speaker 1: but that is not true at all. Very often it
Speaker 1: changes through repetition, through tenderness, through one loving signal given
Speaker 1: and at the same time each night, until the body
Speaker 1: begins to recognize it and say, ah, yes we are
Speaker 1: safe now. Ah yes, the day is ending now, ah
Speaker 1: yes I may let go now. That is why I
Speaker 1: love what I think of as a sleep trigger, a
Speaker 1: simple little closing signal that tells the body and mind
Speaker 1: very clearly and very gently that the active part of
Speaker 1: the day is over. So many people do not really
Speaker 1: end the day. They drift into bed still half inside
Speaker 1: their email, half inside tomorrow's worries, half inside old conversations,
Speaker 1: half inside self criticism. And then they ask sleep to
Speaker 1: do all the softening for them. But the body responds
Speaker 1: so beautifully when you help it a little. First, so
Speaker 1: for one minute, just one minute, place your hand on
Speaker 1: your chest. Feel the warmth of your own hand there,
Speaker 1: Feel the steady life still moving beneath it. Then say
Speaker 1: slowly twice, I am safe. Pause and breathe again, I
Speaker 1: am safe. Then softly, all is well. Pause again, all
Speaker 1: is well. And as you do this, let the exhale
Speaker 1: be longer than the inhale. Breathe in for four and
Speaker 1: breathe out for six, or even eight if that feels natural.
Speaker 1: Not a forced breath, not a dramatic breath, A soothing breath,
Speaker 1: a reassuring breath, a breath that tells the body you
Speaker 1: do not have to keep watch. In the same way. Now,
Speaker 1: I think people forget how much the body believes tone.
Speaker 1: The body often trust the gentle voice more than it
Speaker 1: trusts the noisy thought. Your body believes the loving tone
Speaker 1: of your voice more than the frightened chatter of your mind.
Speaker 1: One long exhale can change the whole nervous system. That
Speaker 1: is not an exaggeration, sweetheart, It really can. It does
Speaker 1: not always solve every life problem in that instant, no,
Speaker 1: but it can shift the chemistry enough that the body
Speaker 1: starts releasing instead of bracing, softening, instead of guarding, settling,
Speaker 1: instead of rehearsing. And what I love about this little
Speaker 1: ritual is that it is so simple. You can do
Speaker 1: it even on the hardest nights, even when the mind
Speaker 1: has been noisy, even when the day was imperfect, even
Speaker 1: when you feel tender and tired and not especially spirit.
Speaker 1: It does not ask you to become someone else before sleep.
Speaker 1: It only asks you to become kind. Put the hand
Speaker 1: on the chest, say I am safe. All is well.
Speaker 1: Breathe a little longer on the way out. Let the
Speaker 1: body hear the day ending, Let the younger places in
Speaker 1: you hear that someone loving is now in charge. Let
Speaker 1: the heart know it may rest. And if old thoughts
Speaker 1: still float by, do not wrestle with them. Stay with
Speaker 1: the hand, stay with the breath, stay with the words.
Speaker 1: Let this be the bridge from effort into surrender, from
Speaker 1: carrying into resting, from the noisy outer day into the
Speaker 1: quiet inner room where healing can do its work while
Speaker 1: you sleep, and then before you drift away, I want
Speaker 1: to give you one more beautiful little practice, And this
Speaker 1: one is what I call a loving preview. I think
Speaker 1: this matters so much because many people use the moments
Speaker 1: before sleep to preview tomorrow's trouble. They imagine what might
Speaker 1: go wrong, what might be difficult, who might disappoint them,
Speaker 1: what might feel awkward, what burden might be waiting, And
Speaker 1: they call that preparation. But very often it is only
Speaker 1: fear trying to arrive early. So instead, I want you
Speaker 1: to send love ahead of you. I want you to
Speaker 1: let the mind see a gentle direction, because the mind
Speaker 1: does not need to see the whole map. It only
Speaker 1: needs a little picture of goodness to begin organizing itself differently.
Speaker 1: So for one or two minutes, imagine three very simple
Speaker 1: moments from tomorrow going well. Keep them ordinary, that is important.
Speaker 1: We are not trying to stage a grand fantasy. We
Speaker 1: are teaching the mind and body that ease belongs in
Speaker 1: everyday life. So perhaps you see yourself waking up a
Speaker 1: little lighter, not rushing into alertness, but opening your eyes
Speaker 1: and breathing before you move. Then perhaps you see one
Speaker 1: pleasant conversation, a kind exchange, a smile, a message, a
Speaker 1: simple moment of warmth with another person. And then perhaps
Speaker 1: you see one thing flowing more smoothly than you expected.
Speaker 1: A task completing, a line moving quickly, a meeting feeling easier,
Speaker 1: a decision becoming clearer, a burden becoming lighter. Just three
Speaker 1: small moments. Let them be enough, let them be believable,
Speaker 1: Let them be gentle. The mind does not need the
Speaker 1: whole future. It only needs a loving direction. You send
Speaker 1: love ahead of you, and it begins opening the way.
Speaker 1: I think that is one of the quiet miracles of
Speaker 1: this practice. You are not demanding that tomorrow obey your script.
Speaker 1: You are simply teaching the mind to expect some goodness,
Speaker 1: some ease, some support, some pleasant surprise, instead of only
Speaker 1: scanning for strain. Then end the little preview with the sentence,
Speaker 1: tomorrow will be a wonderful day. Say it slowly, let
Speaker 1: it settle. Say it again if you like, tomorrow will
Speaker 1: be a wonderful day. That is not childish, That is
Speaker 1: not denial. That is a way of orienting the heart
Speaker 1: toward possibility. It tells the subconscious tomorrow is not automatically
Speaker 1: an enemy. Tomorrow may carry something good. And I think
Speaker 1: that is such a lovely way to go to sleep.
Speaker 1: Not with a clenched fist around the future, but with
Speaker 1: an open hand, Not with a mind rehearsing disaster, but
Speaker 1: with a mind invited into hope. Not with a body
Speaker 1: still preparing to fight, but with a body being shown
Speaker 1: a kinder picture to rest into. So tonight, if you
Speaker 1: can give yourself these last two gifts, the sleep trigger
Speaker 1: and the loving preview, hand on heart, I am safe,
Speaker 1: all is well. Long exhale. Then three simple good moments
Speaker 1: from tomorrow, a softer waking, a pleasant conversation, one thing
Speaker 1: flowing more easily than expected. Then tomorrow will be a
Speaker 1: wonderful day. Let that be enough. Let that be the
Speaker 1: final atmosphere. Let that be the loving handoff to the
Speaker 1: healing intelligence of sleep. Because the body knows what to
Speaker 1: do when it feels safe, and the mind knows how
Speaker 1: to look for good when you have shown it the direction.
Speaker 1: And so, my dear, close the day this way. If
Speaker 1: you can not perfectly, just lovingly, the night will hold
Speaker 1: you better, and the morning may meet you with more
Speaker 1: kindness than you imagined. Before we close, my dear, I
Speaker 1: want you to feel something very clearly. You do not
Speaker 1: have to carry this whole day one minute longer. You
Speaker 1: do not have to take every unfinished thought, every awkward moment,
Speaker 1: every heavy feeling, every little regret and drag it with
Speaker 1: you into sleep, as though that were love or responsibility.
Speaker 1: It is not. Love knows when to put things down.
Speaker 1: Love knows when to say that is enough for to day.
Speaker 1: Love knows when to close the door softly and let
Speaker 1: the heart rest and tonight. That is what I want
Speaker 1: for you, not a perfect ending, a loving one, not
Speaker 1: a dramatic transformation, a gentle release. Because you are allowed
Speaker 1: to end the day without solving every mystery. You are
Speaker 1: allowed to rest before everything makes sense. You are allowed
Speaker 1: to be tender and still be safe. You are allowed
Speaker 1: to sleep without earning it. That is very important. So
Speaker 1: if there is any part of you still trying to
Speaker 1: hold the whole day together, let that part hear this. Now.
Speaker 1: It is all right to stop, It is all right
Speaker 1: to soften, It is all right to let the night
Speaker 1: hold what you no longer need to hold by yourself.
Speaker 1: I want you to feel the power in that. Because
Speaker 1: rest is not weakness, release is not failure, sleep is
Speaker 1: not avoidance. Sometimes The wisest thing you can do is
Speaker 1: stop forcing and let healing happen in the quiet. Your
Speaker 1: body knows how to repair, Your heart knows how to settle.
Speaker 1: Your mind knows how to reorganize when you stop frightening
Speaker 1: it with one more round of late night rehearsing. So
Speaker 1: to night, instead of judging the day, bless it, Instead
Speaker 1: of replaying everything, release it. Instead of asking more from yourself,
Speaker 1: offer yourself safety. You have done enough for one day,
Speaker 1: even if the day was messy, even if it was emotional,
Speaker 1: even if there were things left undone, there is still
Speaker 1: a dignified, peaceful way to end it. You end it
Speaker 1: by coming back to yourself. You end it by saying,
Speaker 1: my dear, we are home. Now, we are done for
Speaker 1: to day. We may rest, and that changes tomorrow. More
Speaker 1: than people realize, a calm ending becomes a kinder beginning,
Speaker 1: A gentle inner voice becomes a softer waking. A body
Speaker 1: that goes to sleep feeling safe wakes up with more
Speaker 1: strength to meet life beautifully. So now I want to
Speaker 1: leave you with these little words, and I want you
Speaker 1: to say them slowly, not as a performance, but as
Speaker 1: a blessing over your own life. Let them be your
Speaker 1: permission slip to stop carrying. Let them be your doorway
Speaker 1: into sleep. Let them be the gentle close of this day.
Speaker 1: Today is complete. You do not need to add one
Speaker 1: more chapter to it. Tonight I release the day, not
Speaker 1: because it did not matter, but because it matters enough
Speaker 1: to be laid down with love. I am safe right here,
Speaker 1: right now, in this breath, in this body, in this moment,
Speaker 1: All is well, not because every detail is perfect, but
Speaker 1: because life is still holding you. Tomorrow will be a
Speaker 1: wonderful day. You may let your heart expect something good,
Speaker 1: and so it is. I want you to remember that
Speaker 1: you are not powerless. At night. You are planting. You
Speaker 1: are planting the emotional tone of tomorrow. You are teaching
Speaker 1: the nervous system what home feels like. You are showing
Speaker 1: the subconscious whether to look for joy or for trouble.
Speaker 1: And tonight you may choose differently tonight. You may choose
Speaker 1: peace tonight. You may choose safety. Tonight. You may choose
Speaker 1: to believe that tomorrow does not have to be a
Speaker 1: repeat of every old fear. That is not fantasy, that
Speaker 1: is inner direction, that is self love with a backbone.
Speaker 1: So go to sleep like someone who des deserves a
Speaker 1: beautiful morning. Go to sleep like someone whose body is
Speaker 1: worthy of rest. Go to sleep like someone who does
Speaker 1: not need to stay on guard all night in order
Speaker 1: to be responsible. Let the shoulders drop, let the jaw soften,
Speaker 1: Let the breath lengthen, let the day be done.