Hi,
I'm Rosie and it's bedtime.
So I guess you're probably lying down in bed.
How does that make you feel right now?
Maybe it feels good,
Maybe your bed feels all comfy and cosy and everything's starting to calm down.
Or maybe right now you might feel like you don't really want to go to sleep,
That you don't feel ready to go to sleep yet.
Maybe that's okay too,
To feel that.
Maybe your mind is ready for sleep,
But your body still wants to do things.
Or it might be the other way around,
Maybe your body feels ready but you feel like your mind still wants to zing around and play.
Or maybe you don't know how you feel and that's okay too.
And whatever's going on,
Maybe you can still notice how comfy your bed is,
How nice and soft your pillow is,
How you can wriggle around between the sheets or stretch out or curl up under the duvet and still be comfy and cosy lying down,
Snuggling in.
And isn't it amazing how sometimes our minds and our bodies don't have to be doing the same thing.
So sometimes you might be running around busy,
Busy,
Busy with your body,
But your mind feels like there's nothing going on much at all.
Or sometimes your mind can be busy,
Busy,
Busy while your body is slowing down and not wanting to do anything.
Maybe that might be happening right now.
Maybe you're enjoying your body,
Lying down,
Relaxing in your cosy,
Comfy bed.
And you can do that even while your mind might feel like it's still running around,
Like it wants to jump around and have fun.
Maybe your body might still be feeling kind of wriggly and fidgety and you don't know how to get it to slow down.
Maybe you could give your mind something to do and that would help your body start to slow down,
Help your body start to rest and relax and unwind and let go.
Sometimes you can make things happen in your mind even when your body is resting.
Shall we try that now?
Maybe to help you,
You might want to take a great big breath in,
Like a balloon filling up.
And then hold that breath.
Hold it for a moment.
And then just let it out,
Like all of the air just coming out of the balloon.
You might want to do that again if that was fun.
So filling your body up with air like a balloon.
Then hold your breath.
Hold it for a moment.
And then let all the breath out and then going all floppy as if your body was just an empty balloon.
Maybe you notice now that you're feeling a bit more cosy.
Maybe a bit more ready to rest.
And if you're not feeling like that,
That's OK too.
This is your time.
So maybe whatever you're feeling right now is OK.
How would that be?
Just noticing how comfy the bed is right now.
Maybe your toes feel cosy or your fingers or your arms and legs.
Maybe your back,
Maybe the front of your body.
Maybe your mind still isn't ready to let go and rest.
Maybe you might like to explore giving your mind a game to play.
And your body doesn't need to get involved.
You might like to just use your imagination for this one.
Imagine right now that you're on a trampoline.
It's a trampoline in a garden somewhere.
Maybe the garden is warm and sunny.
And the trampoline is just for you.
Maybe in your mind,
You're on the trampoline and you're bouncing in bare feet as high as you like.
Imagine feeling your whole body going right up high on the trampoline,
Almost floating away and then coming back down through the air.
Feeling the trampoline giving way as you land,
As your feet connect and the trampoline bounces under you and then the point where it reaches the bottom and starts to lift you back up again.
The energy just turns around and you don't even have to try and your body sails up,
Up,
Up in the air.
And then gently coming back down again.
Maybe this time sitting on the trampoline as you bounce,
Landing on the trampoline on your bottom.
And then back up,
Up,
Up through the air,
Almost like you're flying.
Almost like you're in slow motion now.
Way up.
Then hanging in the air and slowly,
Weightlessly floating back down to the trampoline.
This time your body goes completely floppy and you land on your back.
And you stay in that lying shape as the trampoline drops down and then bounce as you gently back up.
And now you're just lying on the air as you bounce and your body is loose and relaxed and you can just enjoy letting go of all of the muscles in your whole body.
As if you're sleeping in the air and then softly landing again on the trampoline.
It's so easy and you can just let go and the trampoline bounces you and holds you and gently bounces you and catches you again.
And the bounces get smaller and smaller.
Until you're just lying on the trampoline and it's still moving ever so slightly up and down.
So slightly you can't tell if you're moving at all and it's so warm and you're so comfy and the trampoline is holding you and you feel like you can just let go completely and that everything is soft and calm and warm and relaxed.
So relaxed.
So soft.
You could even let go and go to sleep.
