8 Hour Sleep Meditation for Night Waking

Falling asleep was never the hard part. You drop off fine, and then your eyes open at 2 or 3 in the morning, the room is dark, the house is quiet, and your mind is already awake and talking. You reach for your phone, check the time, and the night is gone.

This is one continuous guided sleep meditation that runs for a full eight hours, so you press play once at lights out and never touch your phone again. The voice grows slower and softer as the night goes on, with long stretches of restful quiet between passages, and every passage is a complete landing place on its own — slow breathing, a warm and unhurried body scan, and simple settling suggestions that work just as well at 3 a.m. as they do at bedtime. Whenever you surface, the voice is already there, waiting to walk you back down.

You wake in the morning instead of the middle of the night. Press play tonight and let it hold the whole night for you.