The meditations we’re going to suggest are meditations to improve sleep. Now, we all know how important sleep is in our lives, it occupies a large part of our time, but we often have a complicated relationship with it.

Why? Because it’s important to sleep. Because it’s important to sleep, and because our hectic, complicated, stressful lives sometimes keep us on the edge of sleep, and we try very hard to fall asleep, as the saying goes, and yet thoughts keep telling us stories and taking us into all the twists and turns of their convolutions, and sleep doesn’t come. And the less we manage to fall asleep, the more we worry about not falling asleep, and of course, as we all know, the less sleep we get.

Our meditation for an easy fall asleep

It’s a never-ending, exhausting spiral. So these meditations for falling asleep, for calming down, for letting go of that infernal thinking machine, all these meditations will give us this wonderful opportunity to gently fall asleep, to improve the quality of our sleep, perhaps to have a longer, deeper, more restorative sleep.

Be careful, there’s nothing magical about this; it’s a training that requires regularity in our practices, with a gradual progression. One last thing: it’s important to observe changes and improvements, even small ones at first, to reverse this sleep spiral so that it becomes virtuous.