What type of meditation is this?

Factual Questions
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I’m having trouble finding what I’m looking for on Amazon, having tried guided meditation and guided visualisation as search terms which brings up the correct sort of things on YouTube. However, I’m specifically looking on Amazon so I can play them through Alexa. My lack of success makes me wonder if there’s another name.

What I’m talking about is meditation that is also a story of sorts.

Typically a soothing voice will tell you to lie down comfortably, suggest how to breathe and relax your muscles. And then you are told to imagine a location. You might be at the beach, imagining that you are listening to the waves gently lapping the shore, or maybe you are in the woods listening to birds. For children they might instead imagine a trip to space or an octopus garden. Regardless you are guided through a peaceful wander through whatever location and hopefully fall asleep soon after.

Any suggestions for search terms?

2

n/m. If “visualization” doesn’t get you what you want, I don’t know.

Can you upload any mp3 file you want to Alexa?

3

This is called “yoga nidra” there are thousands you can listen to for free on youtube.

4

BTW, “nidra” means “sleep”, but you don’t want to literally fall asleep, though, do you? Maybe it’s best not to try this type of meditation when you are too tired.

5

Personal I always fall asleep but that’s just me, one of my yoga books talks about conscious sleep,I guess this is where your lucid dreaming or can hear your body snoring. You can also have not conscious sleep which is supposed to be bad and you have to keep concentrating? although I have no idea what that really means.