What You Need Today Guided Meditation -Sleep Version

Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker

Julie Potiker lead you through this guided meditation focusing on what you need right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, "How to Love Yourself", by James Crews.

This meditation ends with the poem so you can drift off to sleep at the end.

How to Love Yourself

Sit by the open window as long as you can,

listening as rain taps out its own rhythm

on the canopies of trees at last gone to green.

Feel how that music seeps into you

as each new droplet sinks into soil,

touching earthworm and root, feeding

all the small things we cannot see.

This solitude is food for you too,

the kind of love you give yourself

as you would a guest in your home.

Ask: what do you need, how can I help,

the way rain offers itself to the world,

polishing each stone and leaf, before

dropping down into the grateful ground.

—James Crews

Find out more about using mindfulness in everyday life through Julie's books, "SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". Both are available on Amazon.com.

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