Jul 28, 2026 · 10 min · 5 segments
As the day comes to a close, I invite you to slow down, take a gentle breath, and allow yourself to simply be. In this first **Stories for Unwinding – A Gentle Story Before Sleep**, we begin with a…
I want to invite you just to allow these next few moments to become a space to slow down and to be with yourself.
And if you would like, I invite you to take a slow breath in and then let it leave you nice and slowly, perhaps a little longer on the exhale than the inhale.
Often I find just thinking of my mouth and my jaw and my cheeks and just relaxing them.
So soften your mouth, let your tongue feel heavy, and just let all the stress drain away from your face.
Then take your hands and allow your thumb and index fingers to connect, and gently rub your thumb and index finger, finger, fingers together so that you can feel the touch of your skin.
And as you are feeling your skin and rubbing your fingers together, just take a moment to just get lost in that sensation.
This is a powerful tool that I bring from the positive intelligence training, and it's what we call a PQ rep.
But it's a moment just to break the concentration or the overwhelm of too many thoughts, and it's a fabulous thing that you can do wherever.
Whatever this day has held for you, it is now time to allow yourself to simply rest.
Allow yourself to surrender to this time right here, right now, just to relax and to be kind to yourself.
I want to invite you just to allow these next few moments to become a space to slow down and to be with yourself.
And if you would like, I invite you to take a slow breath in and then let it leave you nice and slowly, perhaps a little longer on the exhale than the inhale.
Often I find just thinking of my mouth and my jaw and my cheeks and just relaxing them.
So soften your mouth, let your tongue feel heavy, and just let all the stress drain away from your face.
Then take your hands and allow your thumb and index fingers to connect, and gently rub your thumb and index finger, finger, fingers together so that you can feel the touch of your skin.
And as you are feeling your skin and rubbing your fingers together, just take a moment to just get lost in that sensation.
This is a powerful tool that I bring from the positive intelligence training, and it's what we call a PQ rep.
But it's a moment just to break the concentration or the overwhelm of too many thoughts, and it's a fabulous thing that you can do wherever.
Whatever this day has held for you, it is now time to allow yourself to simply rest.
Allow yourself to surrender to this time right here, right now, just to relax and to be kind to yourself.
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