20 Minute Sleep Meditations to Fall Asleep Fast

You turn off the light already tired, and somehow that is the moment your mind decides to start talking. You do not want a long program or a lesson in mindfulness. You want to be asleep.

These short guided sleep meditations are made for exactly that. A calm voice counts your breath down from ten, then walks warmth and heaviness through your body, limb by limb, in an unhurried body scan that gives your thoughts nothing to hold on to. A soft repeating phrase takes over from there and carries you the rest of the way. Each session runs about twenty minutes, and every one is safe to drift out of at any point, so there is nothing to finish and nothing to get right.

Most nights you will be gone long before the track ends, and you will wake feeling like you actually rested. Get comfortable, press play tonight, and let the voice do the rest.