Welcome to Time for Teens.
I'm Gillian.
It's time to get ready to go to sleep and I invite you to tap for sleep along with me.
We're going to be tapping on several points on the upper part of our body and we're going to practice this now.
I invite you with two fingers to tap the top of your head at the crown and just tap a few times there,
10 to 15 times and then I invite you to tap at the side of your eye where the bone circles around the eye at the side and tap there and then tap underneath the eye then tap underneath the nose underneath the lip and then find your collarbone and come to the middle and underneath the collarbone you'll find a dip before another and a harder point underneath that just tap there and then reach under your arm a few centimeters underneath the arm about 10 centimeters below the armpit and tap on the side of your body there so those are the points that we are going to use today.
It's time to get comfortable.
You can do this sitting or lying down.
This is just preparing us for getting to sleep.
First of all I invite you to come to your breath.
Begin to be more aware of your breathing pattern.
Don't change anything.
Breathing in and breathing out Breathing in and breathing out and every time the mind starts to chatter and it will,
Notice that it's chattering but let it go.
Let those thoughts disappear and float away and bring yourself gently back to your breath.
Breathing in and breathing out Breathing in and breathing out So we're beginning to let the stresses and worries of the day that we've had melt away and focusing now on the breath and beginning to wind down ready to go to sleep.
So I invite you now to start tapping at your crown.
So at the crown point repeat after me this drifting feeling and make sure you're breathing as you're seeing this.
Then bring your fingers down to the side of your eye keep tapping and repeat after me drifting off to sleep Breathing in and breathing out and then come down and tap underneath your eye and repeat after me letting go and I choose to relax now and come down now to underneath the nose keep tapping and make sure that you keep breathing and repeat after me it's safe for me to let go and fall asleep and then tap underneath the lip and repeat after me I'm safe now and down to the collarbone and tap there it's safe for me to drift off to sleep and then reach under your arm and tap at the side I'm going to sleep now and then breathe out and relax we're going to repeat that now and I'm just going to repeat the phrases and I invite you to say the phrases after me as you're tapping so starting at the crown this drifting feeling down to the side of the eye and tap drifting off to sleep make sure you're breathing in and breathing out and tap under the eye letting go and choosing to relax now underneath the nose it's safe for me to let go and fall asleep breathing in and breathing out and tap underneath the lip I'm safe now and down to the collarbone and tap it's safe for me to drift off to sleep and then reaching underneath the arm about 10 centimeters below the armpit and repeat after me I'm going to sleep now and breathe out and I invite you now just to keep tapping around those points silently don't worry if you forget the order don't worry if you forget exactly where you're meant to be tapping but just trust yourself trust your instinct and continue to tap and breathe you can speak to yourself at the same time encouraging yourself to relax and go to sleep but if you want to just tap that's okay too and coming to the end of the tapping let both hands relax either in your lap or at your side and come back just focusing on the breath breathing in and breathing out and as you breathe out relax your shoulders letting them fall down away from your ears so breathing in and breathing out thank you for joining me I hope you have a good sleep so so you
