Bedtime Meditations Introduction

In time, I will be offering a selection of Bedtime Meditations. While these meditations can be used on yourself to help settle into sleep, their intended purpose is to be spoken to your children to help them fall asleep.

To allow the full potential flowering of this practice, please keep in mind the following:

1. Consider your tone of voice - can you speak more softly?

2. Consider the speed of your words - can you slow down? Maybe there can be a deep breath in between each line or idea.

3. Allow for pauses to let ideas sink in, maybe even slowly repeating lines that you think can land more deeply in your child.

4. Find a nice balance between a melodic and monotone voice. You want to be relaxed and not overly animated as this will waken them up, but you don't want to be robotic. Use your voice as an instrument, playing it softly and beautifully, like a gentle lullaby.

5. Make it your own. As you get to know these meditations, make them your own: bring in experiences from the day, extra parts that focus in on what your child is going through, skipping parts that don't connect with you, etc. In the beginning, you might read these as a script but as you repeat them, you will just have the idea of the journey planted in you and can speak intuitively.