Day 3: Find Your Peace

Meditation

By: Aaptiv

Narrated by: Jade Alexis

Length: 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Release negative thoughts from your mind and hold on harder to the positive ones in preparation for a peaceful sleep. In this class, you'll learn about body scanning and how releasing tension in the body can help you calm the mind.

Please note: all Aaptiv audio-fitness programs, including those in your Audible library, will become unavailable after Sept 5, 2019.

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Very aggressive

For a program that is supposed to put you to sleep, the speech is very aggressive and not at all relaxing.

Day 3

I like that in this episode you focused on positive thoughts and not negative ones since it's never a good thing to fall asleep angry or frustrated.

Definitely not for me.

The techniques and guided meditations for relaxing and going to sleep are ok, but Alexis' voice was jarring to me. I felt like an exhausted parent at the end of their emotional rope was demanding that I just "Go the F*ck to Sleep," as another audiobook puts it. Perhaps if she were giving me get-up-and-go orders or workout commands it would have been more appropriate.

Counterproductive

I have to atop using this resource because she gets you into a still and relaxed state and then every time abruptly ends the session with a self-promotion. “Ok you are done. I’m __________ and ....” Why talk when someone is supposed to be asleep? It makes no sense. I was jolted out of near sleep tonight by it. Very disappointing. It actually alarmed my body and now I am wide awake. 😢

Skip this one

Overall, I really enjoy these Aaptiv programs. This one was a miss for me. It involved counting sheep which was too much of a cliche for me to stay in the moment. Finally, I really wish Audible would not use the loud “Audible hopes you have enjoyed this recording” at the end of relaxation audios. Too jarring.

Bad music

Almost couldn’t finish this one. The music was so annoying! Like someone laying on a car horn or banging on an organ. Not relaxing AT ALL!

Voice and tempo are wrong

The voice and tempo did not encourage sleep and relaxation. The voice is neither soothing nor relaxing. The tempo is fast and mechanical.

Horrible!

The organ like music is awful! Not a bit relaxing, I just want her to shut up about the stupid sheep.

several mistakes & counting sheep!

Supposed to be a guided meditation to get you to go to sleep more peacefully.
The first two episodes were OK, though almost identical, and with the narrator sounding bossy, almost angry, not a peaceful voice.
In this episode she makes three mistakes, where she is supposed to be guiding the *left* arm to be still, but she looses track, and instead starts guiding you to have your right arm still (but she already did that one), and then says "stiff" instead of "still." she corrects herself, but this was NOT edited out.
I was starting to get annoyed, but tried to go back to my breath, and keep listening. And what happened then was just too ridiculous. She told the listener to visualize a green field with a white picket fence. This was already getting strange, because why a FENCE when you want people to be peaceful, but OK. But then, there were thousands of .... wait for it ... Sheep!!!
And she had the listener counting sheep. I kid you not.
A good thing this is a FREE product for members, or I would have asked my money back.

Creepy with bad feelings!

Day 3 here is awful. I feel with the music and the tone I'm waiting for the classic murder movie scream. Nope.