Is your forehead tight? Let it smooth out
The small muscles around your eyes, smooth and relaxed. Your forehead, wide and calm, as if a cool hand has brushed across it. One cue from our guided sleep meditation, over warm rain.
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Made with AI. Parts of this video are AI-generated (see “How this was made” below).
What it is
A single body-scan cue, lifted from the face section of our longer guided sleep meditation for overthinking. It goes straight to a spot many people never notice: the small muscles around the eyes and across the brow, which often stay tight long after the rest of the body has let go. The voice names them, then offers an image to let them soften.
How to use it for sleep
Lie back and close your eyes before it starts. As the voice speaks, let your eyebrows drop a little and feel the skin between them widen; don’t force it, just notice. After the Short ends, check your jaw and cheeks too, since they often tighten together with the brow. If you want the whole scan from the feet up, the full meditation takes you through it slowly.
Best for
People who frown when they concentrate, long screen days, and nights when your eyes feel tired but your head still feels busy.
Sound design note
Under the voice is warm, heavy rain on jungle leaves from our tropical forest downpour, generated by SleepBetter’s sound engine with no samples, kept low so the voice stays soft. It plays fine on a speaker; keep the volume low.
Keep it going
This cue comes from our guided sleep meditation for overthinking, which walks through the whole body before a long, quiet binaural bed. For another quick tension check, try unclench your jaw. To keep the warm rain going without a voice, the tropical forest downpour plays for eight hours, and our heavy rain guide covers when a thick rain helps.
Transcript
The full narration, as spoken. Pauses are left out.
The small muscles around your eyes… smooth and relaxed.
Your forehead, wide and calm, as if a cool hand has brushed across it.
How this was made
The narration is an AI-generated voice (ElevenLabs, voice “Solomon” from the ElevenLabs voice library), reading an original script written by SleepBetter. The background sound is generated by SleepBetter’s own sound engine. The picture is real slow-motion stock footage of rain on a tropical forest (Mixkit), graded darker by SleepBetter.
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Sleep videos and guided relaxation are for general wellness, not medical advice. If poor sleep is affecting your days, talk to a doctor or a sleep specialist.