Chibs Okereke Sleep Meditations

I’m teaching a live meditation course this October, and the first session is free.

It’s called MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. It’s eight weeks on Zoom, with me and a group, and it’s the course I trained to teach at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass, where it began.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn to meditate on your own, as well as with my recordings, this is how.

The free intro is on Tuesday 20 October at 9am Sydney time. That’s Monday 19 October at 6pm in New York and 11pm in London. Come along, have a look, and decide after that.

The details are here: chibs.co/mbsr

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1 day ago |[YT] | 173

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Take a moment to notice your jaw. If it's tight right now and you didn't clench it on purpose, that's stress still on duty.

https://youtu.be/l1fvkNcCBwk

Brand new… Sleep Meditation for Chronic Stress | Deep Healing & Recovery

For when stress stopped being a bad week a long time ago, and your body has forgotten what off feels like.

We let the breath slow on its own, move slowly from head to toe, and give your body the thing long-term stress keeps interrupting: a proper night of repair.

And there's a garden at the end of a long, dry summer, taking in a slow night of rain.

A) Tense
B) Worn down
C) On edge
D) Running on empty

Comment A, B, C or D…

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And if the reason you're here is a life that hasn't let you off duty in months, that's exactly what we work on in my small community. Courses, live calls, my full meditation library ad-free, and a free 7-day trial: www.skool.com/chibs/about 💙

3 days ago |[YT] | 318

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I made this one for the nights when you do everything right… and you're still awake an hour later.

https://youtu.be/3emYgEewF1s

Brand new… Rapid Sleep Hypnosis | Fall Asleep in Minutes

For the nights when sleep feels like one more thing you have to make happen.

It takes the trying away, because trying is the one thing sleep can't get through.

The countdown is the last few minutes before sleep, and you're allowed to drop off at any number. Most people won't make it to one.

A) Doing everything right and still awake
B) Checking the clock and doing the maths
C) Body tired, eyes won't settle
D) Just want to be asleep already

Comment A, B, C or D…

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And if the reason you're here is a day spent making everything happen through sheer effort, that's exactly what we work on in my small community. Courses, live calls, my full meditation library ad-free, and a free 7-day trial: www.skool.com/chibs/about 💙

1 week ago (edited) |[YT] | 541

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I made this one for the nights when you're not even turning anything over, and your head still won't settle.

https://youtu.be/w8VdQkeZlKM

Brand new… The Overstimulated Mind | Vagus Nerve Reset for Deep, Calm Sleep

For the nights when the day didn't stop coming at you, and your system is still working through it long after you've got into bed.

We slow the breath, then go gently through the parts of you that took today in: the eyes, the ears, the jaw, the hands.

There's a stretch in the middle where everything from the day starts arriving from further away, until nothing more is coming in at all.

A) Wired
B) Frayed
C) Flat
D) Just full

Comment A, B, C or D…

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PS. Recorded this one late, with the window open, and a possum decided the roof was his. He's not on the track. I checked twice.

2 weeks ago |[YT] | 607

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You’ve been available to somebody since the moment you woke up.
Work, the kids, your parents, the phone.
That’s the feeling this one’s for.

It’s a 30-minute yoga nidra for emotional exhaustion, for the afternoons when you’re not tired exactly, you’re full.

https://youtu.be/TZG5RfVo--0

We move slowly through the whole body, plant a short sankalpa (a sentence you say to yourself as though it’s already true), and then rest for a long stretch in near silence.

You don’t need to fall asleep. There’s a gentle count at the end that brings you back awake and clear, so you can do this in the middle of the day and get on with the rest of it.

If today’s one of those days where everyone’s had a piece of you, take the thirty minutes for yourself.

This one’s on our daytime channel, youtube.com/@ChibsMeditations, which is where all the new daytime meditations are going. If you want more rest like this, subscribe over there too.

Much love,
Chibs 💙

3 weeks ago (edited) |[YT] | 427

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If you're reading this at 1am with a conversation from Tuesday still running, this one's for you.

https://youtu.be/HSh-9wdGp5A

Brand new… Nothing Left to Think | Deep Sleep Hypnosis for Overthinkers

For the nights when your body is done but your mind is still working late.
It takes the job away from your mind one piece at a time, rather than asking you to force it quiet.

The body relaxation starts at your feet and finishes behind your eyes, so the thinking part of you is the last thing left awake. Then a countdown to zero, where the thinking runs out.

A) Replaying a conversation
B) Drafting tomorrow's list
C) Re-deciding something I'd already decided
D) No reason at all, just wide awake

Comment A, B, C or D…

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PS I recorded the countdown three times because I kept speeding up on the last two numbers. Saying "zero" slowly is harder than it sounds.

And if the reason you're here is a mind that's spent all day trying to stay ahead of everything, that's exactly what we work on in my small community. Courses, live calls, my full meditation library ad-free, and a free 7-day trial: www.skool.com/chibs/about

3 weeks ago (edited) |[YT] | 363

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Your face has been working all day. Arranged, agreeable, ready with the right expression before you'd even worked out what you thought.
Nobody's looking now.

https://youtu.be/rpcIsPvrxug

Brand new… Sleep Hypnosis to Release the Weight of Other People's Opinions | Let Go of People Pleasing Tonight

This one is for the nights you're going back over what you said and how it landed.
We release it from the places it actually sits. The face. The eyes. The throat, where the no that came out as yes is still sitting. The chest. The hands.

And rather than asking you to put it all down at once, we hand it over five percent at a time, which is the only way anyone ever manages it.

A) Replaying a conversation from today
B) Waiting on a reply and reading into the silence
C) Said yes to something I didn't want to do
D) Just tired of being read all day

Comment A, B, C or D…

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1 month ago |[YT] | 563

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You've probably rested a lot lately. Early nights, quiet weekends, whole days horizontal, and the fatigue is still there in the morning.

Rest hasn't failed you. There's physical tension underneath the tiredness, and your body has been holding on so long you've stopped being able to feel it.

https://youtu.be/1xqjfGao8X4

Brand new… Deep Sleep Hypnosis for Releasing Physical Tension and Chronic Fatigue Recovery

This one is for the nights you're exhausted and your body still won't switch off.

We turn down the effort your body is making, notch by notch, then release the jaw, the eyes, the shoulders, the hands and the low back. No tensing anywhere, because a tired body doesn't need more to do.

And a slow countdown from twenty to one, down into the stages where the actual repair happens.

A) Resting plenty and still exhausted
B) Tired for months, and sleep isn't touching it
C) Aching from a day of holding it together
D) Exhausted, and my body still won't switch off

Comment A, B, C or D…

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1 month ago |[YT] | 525

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A few of you have probably noticed that we don't really post short, daytime meditations on this channel anymore.

That's intentional.

We shifted this channel to focus almost entirely on sleep, and that's still where we want to keep it.

But over the past month, we've been regularly adding new daytime meditations over on Chibs Meditations, and judging by the views and the lovely comments, quite a few of you have been very happy to see them back. 💙

https://youtu.be/a5YD1-Mrs50?si=NFVdV...

This 30-minute vagus nerve meditation is one of the ones you've really been enjoying.

It's designed for those moments during the day when you're wired, overwhelmed, running on adrenaline, or simply feeling like you need to come down a few notches.

We use extended-exhale breathing, an "I am safe" grounding practice, and a slow full-body relaxation that follows the vagus nerve pathway through the body.

You don't need to fall asleep.

You don't need to do anything perfectly.

Just 30 minutes to slow things down, soften the body, and give your nervous system a chance to come out of stress mode.

If you've already been using this one, thank you for all the lovely feedback. And if you've only been following the sleep channel, you might want to have a look at what we've been making over there too.

Much love,

Chibs 💙

1 month ago |[YT] | 1,385

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If you're awake right now, lying very still with your eyes closed, doing everything you're supposed to do and still nowhere near sleep… I know exactly what that is. I've done it plenty.

https://youtu.be/N7RZ2-T_0t4

Brand new… Wide Awake at 3am, Drifting Into Bliss | Floating Sleep Hypnosis to Let Go and Rest

This is the one for the middle of the night, when you've started working at sleep and it's stopped working back.

No countdown in this one. Your body hands its weight over to the bed five percent at a time, until holding yourself up stops being your job, and then you float.

And a reminder I wish someone had given me years ago: the rest you're in at 3am counts, even before you fall asleep.

A) Lying still, doing everything right, still awake
B) Body exhausted, mind switched right on
C) Awake with that fizzing feeling in my chest
D) Given up, just staring at the ceiling

Comment A, B, C or D…

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1 month ago |[YT] | 380