Sleep Affirmations 1

 Why hello there!

Anyone else have a complicated relationship with sleep? *raises hand*

TW: AI art

Yup. Sigh. Sleep is complicated for me, and when you add in my feelings about sleep to the mix (anxiety about sleeping too much/not enough) and my nights have been looking like this:

The world: ✨🌙😴💤💤💤💤🛌🏽

My brain after 3-4 hours: 🥳🥳🥳💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽🤔🤔🤔💥💥💥🎁🎁🎁

My body all the time: 🥱🥱🥱😫😫😫

I asked my AI assistant, Georgina (chat GPT) to help me come up with some sleep affirmations based on me. Maybe they'll be helpful to you, maybe not. My hope is that they will spark hope and acceptance in you on your own sleep journy. 

⭐✨🌙⭐✨🌙⭐✨🌙⭐✨🌙⭐✨🌙⭐✨🌙

Note: My favorite affirmation format is inspired by Sunni Chapman's content and teachings (no affiliation, just a client/fan).

I am fully supported in my ________ and I have the freedom to ___________.

🥳🌼🥳🌼🥳🌼🥳🌼🥳🌼🥳🌼🥳🌼🥳🌼🥳🌼

Here are some sleep affirmations tailored to trusting your body's natural rhythm and embracing nontraditional sleep schedules:  

(This is NOT medical advice. Seek medical help or safety/emotional support as needed to improve your own sleep journey.)

- I am fully supported in my sleep, and I have the freedom to choose what works for me.  

- I am safe enough to sleep.

- I trust that my body and my mind know how to work together to rest. 

- I release the pressure to sleep a certain way and welcome the rhythms and times that suit me best.  

- I embrace the creativity of my own unique sleep cycle.

- I trust myself to find adequate sleep rhythms and solutions.

- I am at peace with my sleep, whenever it comes and whenever it goes.

- I embrace the night as a time of renewal, however it unfolds.  

- I will practice sleep hygiene.

TW: faith-based idea

As part of my sleep routine, I also recite these ancient Bible verses to myself as a calming, grounding mantra before I sleep. It helps signal to my brain and body that I am safe and I will be safe and I can trust in that safety.

I will both lie down in peace and sleep,

For you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. 

I lay down and I slept. I awoke,

For the Lord sustained me.

From the Psalms somewhere towards the beginning of the book. I might circle back to our the exact reference and I might forget.