A Meditation to Settle Mind & Body for Sleep

About this episode

Mark Bertin offers a soothing sleep meditation to help settle restlessness and promote better sleep.

There are so many reasons why we might be struggling to get to sleep and stay asleep. Work or relationship stress, health concerns, hormonal changes, the state of the world—there's plenty to keep us awake at night. This week, Mark Bertin offers a soothing sleep practice to help settle our restlessness, using the breath as a calming anchor to gently coax our busy minds and tense bodies into rest. Because this is a sleep meditation, there won't be the usual recorded outro, so you can just drift off in silence. Mark Bertin, MD, is a pediatrician, author, professor, and mindfulness teacher specializing in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics. He's a regular contributor to Mindful.org and Psychology Today. He is the author of How Children Thrive: The Practical Science of Raising Independent, Resilient, and Happy Kids (Sounds True, 2018). Dr. Bertin resides in Pleasantville, New York. For more, visit developmentaldoctor.com . The transcription of this guided meditation will be online and in our app at Mindful.org next week. Stay curious, stay inspired. Sign up for our free newsletter mindful.org/signup or download the app for free at mindful.org/app . Show Notes Find more from Dr…

People in this episode

Guest: Mark Bertin

Topics covered

• sleep meditation
• mindfulness
• stress relief
• breath work
• restfulness

Keywords

• sleep
• meditation
• mindfulness
• breath
• restlessness
• health
• stress

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mindful.org

Books & works: How Children Thrive: The Practical Science of Raising Independent, Resilient, and Happy Kids

Places: Pleasantville, New York

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