Deep Relaxation for Sleep | 'Ocean Breathing' Guided Meditation and Full-body Deep Rest

This is a guided meditation using the breath and full body relaxation to help you get a good nights rest and wake up rested and refreshed.


During the video there will be 20 minutes of guided breathing and full-body relaxation then 25-30 minutes of ocean waves and music to help you naturally and easily drift to sleep.

0:00 Intro
0:17 Instructions
0:42 Guided Meditation

21:03 Music and Waves (no talking)

The practice we’ll be doing together is designed to help you encourage your body to enter 'Deep Sleep', by mimicking some of the breath and body states we experience in this state.

Did you know our brain gets a ‘wash’ while we sleep?!….


During 'Deep Sleep' cerebrospinal fluid floods our brain and removes accumulated toxins and amyloid proteins. This is one of the ways sleep relieves the mental fatigue that we feel when we’re badly slept.


During 'Deep Sleep' your body also gets to work fixing, restoring, renewing and regenerating cells and your body secretes human growth hormone, which is essential for keeping your organs and tissues healthy.


By belly breathing in the meditation we're encouraging 'Deep Sleep' and all it's benefits.

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What if you find it difficult to breathe into your belly?!?


Don’t worry at all if you find it difficult to breathe deeply. Our lifestyle can get us into bad breathing habits and it can take a little time and practice to deepen the breath. If deep breathing is uncomfortable for you, don’t force or push the breath, just breathe as deep as feels comfortable and little by little the muscles involved will gain flexibility and strengthen.


You can try putting a hand just below your belly button and gently try to move your hand as you breathe.


The way we breathe has a dramatic effect on how we feel and function, so you might benefit from daily breathing meditations.




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Vocal and original music by Caroline McCready
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Thanks for watching, wishing you lots of sleep and deep rest!

[manavssingh]

You speaking is like a lullaby. What a voice!

[jennaholt]

This is the one I always go back to and listen every night almost every…. My brain has it memorized

[MichellesSanctuary]

So lovely— the voice and this wonderful thought of “not trying” to sleep. It takes away all the anxiety. 💜

[healfromsound]

May the universe bring you all you desire, be it health, wealth love and happiness it’s all yours and all you need to do is believe it so. So start believing and get your fill. Love to all who reads this. Its 11pm now in Australia. Where you all at?

[jordyneaton]

I listen to this almost nightly to fall asleep. I find such comfort in your voice and the waves. Sending good vibes 💋

[jillypants]

What a beautiful meditation for bed time. Drifted off nice and slowly. I will be using it every night from now on. 🥰🥰🥰✨✨✨✨

[robalatre]

Over a year now and still returning to Caroline's voice to relax & unwind. She's the best!

[Megan-mmhi]

You have taken such time and care to get your voice and speaking patterns as optimal as possible. Very beautiful, Thank you

[saulgonzalez]

I might not have slept adequately in almost 5 days, but I believe that this will finally work. Positive energy is the key to good mental health! 😀

[Angie]

I use this video daily, with all the bad that’s going on in the country I always come back to this video to relax and stop overthinking, thank you so very much ❤

[MyStrawberryFox]

I'm so glad I found you! I have been a long time Jason Stephenson fan and find a woman's voice refreshing. Your videos have put me to sleep during an intensely difficult time of my life, so thank you. Without sounding greedy, I can't help but wonder if you might be adding more long sleep video sessions to your channel?

[wenla]

I only just found you Caroline, but I'm so grateful that I did. You are really helping me through a tough time. Heartfelt thanks xx

[DiscoverHudsonValley]

Wow! I fell asleep to the soothing sound of your voice alone just a few minute into this video. Thanks for creating this video Caroline and keep up the good work!!

[amaliagrassi]

This sounds beautiful. What a soporific voice you have Caroline. Thank you🙏🌊

[angeloportalino]

PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS! By far the best relaxation videos on YT!

[ms.chatterboxx]

It was wonderful, I slept so much better . It really helped with my anxiety, insomnia & waking from hot flashes .

[tomcatyyz]

This is gold to people like me who can never seem to shut the mind down completely. Thank you so much for this...

[WERONEfishing]

All i can say is your beautiful your videos are beautiful and Thank-you

[bluecurlygirl]

I've been listening to this nightly for several weeks now and never manage to get to the end of it. In fact I've only just realised from the description that part of the video has just music and waves. I'm obviously asleep in the first 20 minutes. I've listened to tracks from others that were an hour long and I've still been awake at the end of some of them. Your voice is so soothing and calming it just relaxes me so quickly. Thank you.

[playingamesince]

Best 🧘‍♂️ meditations YouTube that's forsure 🌄 this is pure art 🎨