Bedtime Sh'ma Prayers

Bedtime Sh'ma Prayers A restful sleep is helpful to facilitate your journey. Bless your sleep. Here are a few ideas to help you go to sleep with the clearest consciousness possible. Before you sleep tonight: • Invoke the concepts that brought you to this place in life; • Forgive anyone who has harmed you in this incarnation or in previous ones • Visualize yourself having the best experience possible during the next period of your life; •See yourself 'healed'; • Ask for a dream, for a message, for healing; •Take a note in your journal, ''Tonight, Monday night, I asked for a dream that ... "; •Say some traditional words. Optional Practices 1) Listen to the state of your trust. Would you 'lentrust" to the Ayn Sof, the Infinite Light, your spirit? your labor for tikkun olam, the repair of the world? The healing of your relationships? Consider the second-to-last line of Adon Olam: So in its hand I set my soul, B'yadoafkidru-khi "r,~"'li"j?!;lt' b'ayti-shanv'a-i-ra. both when I sleep and when I wake. Can you rest in a state of allowing? Can you "leave a little" up to God? 2) Say, " I am weaving my way to my destiny. May my path be mazaldik." 3) Whether your day was easy or hard, perhaps you learned something, or were strengthened and grew in knowledge and love. Perhaps you shared love today. Perhaps you will dream of love tonight. Tuning in to love is a nice way to fall asleep. 4) Say the first line of the Sh'ma before you fall asleep. Sh'ma Yisroel, Yah Elohaynu, Yah, Ekhad. 5) As you fall asleep, let your last thought be of entrusting your path to the Ayn Sof, the Infinite Light. 6) If you wish, you may recite or sing the following before bed: ',N"i'D""ri',N "" l:l'D:l B'shaymYah,elohayYisrael u-mis'moli Gavri-el, "l"~"~ Mi-miniMicha-el, U-mil'fanai Uri-el, u-may-akhorai Rafa-el, V'alroshi,v'alroshi,Shekhinat El. In name of Yah, the God of Israel At my right hand side is Michael (angel of mercy), at my left hand Gavriel (angel of strength), Before me goeth Uriel (angel of light), and behind me Rafael (angel of healing), Above my head, above my head, Shekhinat-El (the presence of the Holy). 7) Prominent in the traditional bedtime prayers are requests from God for protection,. From what do you need protection? From what do you need healing? What are your healing priorities. Before going to bed tonight, you may want to listen to your heart and to the way in which your heart is beating. How is your neck, your back, your stomach? Sweet Sleep!