Just What You Need Guided Meditation - Sleep Version

Just What You Need Guided Meditation - Sleep Version

From Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker by Julie Potiker

June 6, 2026 · 25 min

About this episode

Julie Potiker leads a guided meditation focused on self-compassion and sleep, featuring a poem by James Crews.

Julie Potiker leads you through this self compassion meditation. She completes the meditation with the poem, "The Endless Waltz", by James Crews. This version ends in music allowing you to drift off into sleep. This Endless Waltz, by James Crews In this endless waltz of give and taketrust and receivetoday, I am the one who must open his armshold the door for whatever wants to entertap of rain on glass, scurry of tiny flyacross the window screen, beaded with droplets"please stay", I say to everythingthat must someday goheart as hollow as a begging bowluntil I seeI am begging to be filled by what I already have. -James Crews Continue your mindfulness journey with Julie - through her writings. Her latest book is, "Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace", a collection of poems focusing on themes of nature, self-compassion, and tranquility.Her other books include,"SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". All are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

People in this episode

Host: Julie Potiker

Topics covered

  • guided meditation
  • self compassion
  • sleep
  • mindfulness
  • poetry
  • tranquility

Keywords

  • guided meditation
  • self compassion
  • sleep meditation
  • mindfulness
  • James Crews
  • poetry
  • tranquility

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Endless Waltz, Gentle Currents: Poems of Pause & Peace, SNAP: From Calm to Chaos, Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos

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