Hi,
I'm Erin Lashley.
I'm an accredited EFT practitioner and this evening or today we're going to do some tapping together to help you get to sleep.
So you can do this meditation or this practice before bed or you can do it if you wake up the night and you're really struggling to get back to sleep.
So it can be really good if you've got a lot of mental energy,
A lot of racing thoughts and you're really struggling to shift into rest or if you're just lying wide awake and you're not really sure why.
So when we tap we always check in with ourselves first,
Give ourselves a bit of a rating to just see how we go with the tapping and how it lands.
Tuning into the body,
Into any sense of agitation,
Anxiety,
Stress,
Worry or just a wiredness feeling and rating that sensation or that emotion out of 10.
10 being very strong.
And then we're going to start tapping on the side of the hand together,
Getting comfortable and you can even try doing this lying down if you're in bed and then repeating after me.
Even though it's time to go to sleep,
I need some rest.
I can't seem to get to sleep.
Feeling a little wired.
Maybe I feel overtired,
But I can't quite nod off just yet.
So I'm choosing to calm my nervous system to start to relax and I love and accept myself through this.
Even though right now I'm struggling to get to sleep,
It's hard to get to sleep.
I just feel awake and no matter what I do,
I can't get to sleep.
Acknowledging all this frustration with that now and I love and accept myself anyway.
Even though I really want to get to sleep,
But I just can't get to sleep.
I feel wired.
I feel really awake and I'm frustrated that I can't get to sleep.
This insomnia,
This inability to get to sleep,
It's really annoying and hard.
But I'm acknowledging all of that now.
I'm calming and relaxing myself now and I'm loving and accepting myself through this.
Beautiful.
Going to the top of the head.
I can't get to sleep.
Eyebrow point.
I'm just lying here wide awake.
Side of the eye.
Maybe I have these racing thoughts.
Under the eye,
Going through my day in my mind.
Under the nose,
I really want to go to sleep.
Under the mouth,
It's time to go to sleep.
Collarbone point and maybe part of me feels really tired.
But for whatever reason,
Sleep is not coming easily and I feel quite frustrated about that.
I feel a bit stressed about that.
I feel a bit anxious about that.
Under the arm,
All of this emotion that's coming up.
Onto the ribs,
Acknowledging it now.
Top of the head because it's really frustrating that I can't get to sleep.
Eyebrow point.
I can't seem to calm my mind.
Ribs,
Side of the eye,
Any anxiety and worry.
Acknowledging it now.
Under the eye,
All of this insomnia,
This lack of sleep.
Under the nose,
I want to go to sleep so badly.
And I'm holding all this tension around that.
Under the mouth,
Holding all this tension in my body now.
Collarbone point,
But I'm open to relaxing here.
I'm open to slowing things down.
So that I can start to feel safe.
So that I can start to feel softer.
So that my mind can quieten down and I can start to relax.
Good,
As we tap here,
What I want you to do is take some gentle breaths.
So maybe closing down the eyes.
Taking some really soft breaths here.
In through the nose and letting it go through the nose.
Maybe a sigh,
That feels better for you.
So taking a breath in.
And a really gentle sigh out.
And then repeating after me.
I can feel my body relaxing now.
I'm open to sleep.
Melting away all this frustration and stress.
Under the arm that's been preventing me from getting to sleep.
Onto the ribs,
All of this tension I've been holding.
This insomnia,
This lack of sleep.
Top of the head,
We're going to do one more round.
So taking a deep breath here.
Another gentle breath in.
Gently sighing it out.
Eyebrow point,
It's safe for me to begin to relax now.
Side of the eye,
And I'm getting sleepier and sleepier.
Under the eye,
I can really feel my mind slowing down now.
Under the nose,
I'm feeling my breath and body soften.
Under the mouth,
I'm getting quite tired now.
But I'm also feeling really relaxed.
Collarbone point,
So I'm shifting out any remaining frustration.
Tension,
Anxiety,
Anything that was keeping me awake.
Melting it away,
Letting it go.
I'll come back to it maybe tomorrow.
Take another breath in here,
Gentle breath in.
Maybe a yawn,
If that's available for you,
Yawning.
Feeling the body soften here.
And then going to under the arm,
It's safe for me to relax.
And it's safe for me to go to sleep.
I'm melting into sleep now.
Feeling tired,
Relaxed,
Safe,
And held.
Deep breath in.
Let it go.
Good.
Now I encourage you to lock your phone or close your device.
If you need to do some more tapping.
Otherwise,
Go to sleep.
And have a beautiful rest.
Bye.
