Sleep Meditation for Anxiety | When Everything Feels Unsteady

You are lying in the dark and the day is still going on inside you. The lights are on, the house is quiet, the mind has not yet been told. Perhaps it is turning over a conversation. Perhaps it is counting what tomorrow will ask. Perhaps tightness has no name and the feeling but the ground is not quite steady. You are not doing this wrong. This is simply where you are tonight, and you do not have to leave it. You only have to let something wider come and sit beside it. The day has gone out. Time goes out, leaving the shore bare and shining behind it. There is no one to be tonight. And so you are slowly. Know why? At the very end of the evening, the sand is cool and firm beneath your feet. The sky is low and pale. The smell of salt. The sea is a soft gray breathing in. When the mind is like this and another goes wrong, see to be moving. If you really simply see most of us, to believe in everything as steady, when every worry has been answered, when every way has been stopped, that the sea has never once been still, and it has never once been lost. Tonight we will watch time stand, as the sand stands, begins far up, as a slow lift it gathers it rises and for a moment it seems enormous last light in its crest runs up the sand and slides back the sea and the next one begins lives like this it seems to fill the whole this is how it will all you know that to remember inside purchase way of your life the ones your breath, every one of them went out, you did not, you stood on the shore, do, just the sea, beyond, slowly, it does not come, nor does it go up, like the sea, energy has drawn, uncertainty has drawn, they simply wish, to have slipped away, over the sand, can feel, lost, feel as though, The sea is leaving, but the tide is not closely of the air. It is neither going nor coming. Nobody has ever seen a tide forget to return. Not one in all the ages of the world has drawn back in you, has not gone. It is resting, the shadow itself. it will come as quietness or feeling itself that brought you the thing unsteady. The body says something is wrong. The ground is moving. The sea, everything in it, is moving. And nothing in it is wrong. The living thing is never. The heart is never still. The breath is never still. The sea there's never dull. Unsteadiness is not a sign that something has broken. This the sign something is alive. It's rhythm. You do not have to make the sea stop in order to wrap beside it. You may lie down on the sand a little. The sea, the sound of them, the sound. You have been here If on other nights, this one, with the water and love to be so, it never goes out, returns, goes out. Sometimes, when the calmness returns, every night, chase it. More than you chase, you do not have to perceive the place. You do not have to be calm to deserve. You can't stand on the shore this night as you are, With the water still moving its own time The sea does not need you to keep it going But you has gone from the beach The sky is deep and soft And one star comes up The sea has reached its lowest point Slowly sliding the sand, smoothing it Washing away what's left there Your foot behind the star How you can hear it breathing as world is coming back as it always has now.