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Feb 2025
10m 58s

Nature-Inspired Sleep Meditation: Let Go...

MERYL ARNETT
About this episode

Do you ever find yourself tangled in anxious thoughts at night, struggling to ease into restful sleep?


This episode offers a deeply soothing sleep meditation set beside a natural hot spring on a snowy, star-filled night. If stress, anger, or racing thoughts keep you awake, this practice will guide you into a state of relaxation through mindful breathwork and gentle visualization.


Experience a full-body release of tension with guided breath counting.

Learn how slowing your breath naturally steadies the mind for deep rest.

Feel a sense of warmth, safety, and reset, as if cocooned by nature’s healing embrace.


Today's nature soundscape blends bubbling water, a trickling creek under the snow, and distant wind through pine trees. Designed to evoke the serene hush of deep winter, it offers a sense of warmth while embracing the quiet stillness of the season's final chapter before the first signs of thaw.


Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and let this meditation lead you into a peaceful, restorative night’s sleep. Press play now.


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Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s nature field recordings, sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:

https://www.nickcmcmahan.com

https://www.instagram.com/brianna_podcastpro/


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This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.

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