I Feel So Anxious Before Sleep - Night Time Meditation

Can't Sleep Because It's Too Hot — Coherent Breathing for Hot Night Insomnia & Anxiety | Guided Sleep Meditation

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Can't sleep because it's too hot? You have turned the pillow over three times, the cool side lasted about forty seconds, and now your mind has decided the restlessness means something is wrong. It doesn't. This ten-minute guided sleep meditation is built for warm, balmy August nights when the body can't settle and anxiety fills the gap.



Tonight's breath is coherent breathing — also known as resonant breathing or HRV breathing. Five seconds in, five seconds out, no holding and nothing forced. Martin calls it the still breath, because on a night like this everything else is moving and this is the one thing that isn't. Cool air arrives at the tip of the nose and leaves a little warmer, which means every out breath is quietly letting heat go.



From there we settle the body the way it actually cools itself — feet out from under the covers, palms up, jaw unclenched — and move into a soft visualisation of silver-blue moonlight, the light of a night that has already begun to cool. Hosted by clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic Martin Hewlett. If you drift off before the end, good. That is success, not failure.



⏱️ Time Chapters



* 00:00 – The cool side of the pillow: why hot nights feel like anxiety

* 00:38 – Sponsored by Anchored

* 01:10 – Welcome from Martin

* 01:30 – Settling the body: feet out, palms up, jaw unclenched

* 02:01 – Tonight's breath: coherent breathing, five in and five out

* 05:08 – Visualisation: cool silver-blue moonlight

* 05:56 – Today's gentle affirmations

* 08:16 – Your three daily caring tips

* 09:19 – Coming back gently

* 10:26 – Share the show and sign-off



🌿 Today's Gentle Affirmations



Repeat these wonderful words silently after me:



I am safe, I am here, there is nothing to fear right now.

My body knows how to cool itself, I do not have to manage it.

Rest is enough and rest is already happening.

I am heavy, I am cool and I am calm.

Nothing needs to be decided before morning.



💡 3 Daily Caring Tips



1. Cool your wrists, not the whole room. Run cool water over the insides of your wrists for 30 seconds before bed. The blood vessels sit close to the surface there, and it lowers your core temperature faster than a cold shower will.



2. Turn the clock away from the bed. Do not look at it again tonight, so that your mind cannot keep recalculating how many hours are left.



3. Damp pillowcase and a fan. Lightly damp a cotton pillowcase, lay it over the pillow, and point the fan across it. The evaporation cools the air reaching your face all night without chilling the room.



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If these ten minutes gave you relief tonight, please share the show with someone lying awake in the same heat, and leave a 30-second rating or review on Apple Podcasts.



Sleep well when sleep comes. Rest well if it doesn't....