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wants to go back to sleep. With this down. Even if you don’t manage to surrounded by friendly beings. Use
awareness and a little practice, you get yourself back to sleep the first whatever image comforts you. No
can gently take the reins from your night, breath deeply anyway and matter what, deepen your breath
mind the way you would with a allow the calming effect of that. and come back into your body. In
team of horses that got spooked, Tell yourself that this is a process time, you will find that this kind
and gently but firmly guide them and we will get it, eventually. Tell of empowered imagining and
back to calmness. It’s all in the your mind, “Tomorrow you can breathing does what you may
breath. Calm, steady breathing works work. Now, we need to sleep.” Talk have relied on medication for – but
wonders. And square breathing (I to yourself the way you would to a better! It’s free, with no side effects,
give detailed instructions for Square scared child (maybe you are talking and you have access to it any time
Breathing in Chapter One of my to a scared child inside yourself) you remember to do it.
book, Issues in Your Tissues) is the and reassure her/him that you can
tool that distracts your mind with learn this, and that you’ll keep him/ Despite our technological
counting while opening space for her safe. It may help to imagine sophistication, the most profound
your body to reset. your young self being calmed by fixes are still—
your older, stronger self or a wise reSt, water, a full
If you have a pattern of night elder. You may prefer to imagine Breath, a SmIle. ;-)
waking, your body and nervous yourself in a natural setting,
system have likely been overloaded
for a while, and it may take steady
practice to retrain yourself to
settle down and trust that it’s safe.
Again, imagine those scared horses healing Catalyst, denise laBarre, lmt, has a hands-on healing practice on
wanting to bolt. When they know Maui and travels to teach and share her insights. you can learn more body-
a firm, wise handler “has the reins,” emotional wisdom in her book Issues in Your Tissues: Heal Body and Emotion
they will feel safe enough to calm from the Inside Out or go to her website: www.Healingcatalyst.com

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