We begin by inviting the normal, analytically directive mind to become a passive, witnessing listener to its somatic body intelligence. Paying delicious attention without directive or judgment to the way the tactile body responds to life in every moment is an entryway to sleep. The central, housing landscape by which the subconscious/unconscious and emotional worlds communicate is through sensorial, tactile wavelengths or frequencies.

We introduce a language that romances the subconscious into dropping you into deep sleep. It is the same language needed when persuading a two year old to do something. Direct, cold orders generally don’t work. Coming around through the back door usually does. This is the language of the subconscious/unconscious. It ‘hears’ and understands through input from the senses of the body. We call this somatic intelligence. We describe ways for you to begin listening to what your body is telling you about what is working or not working. Not only does the subconscious ‘hear’ through its own senses of the body, but it also receives information from the external world, filtered through the body’s senses. We call this empathy. This external information either triggers us into nervous system overload (think of riding the subway during rush hour in New York), or into a calming letting go of that part of our mind that keeps us awake (think of quiet time--watching the sun set).

We can choose to have our conscious mind signal the subconscious into weaving this magical state of sleep for us by inviting our daytime, analytical, controlling mind to temporarily take a break from the driver’s seat. We call this romancing the daytime self into intermittently releasing words and descriptions as its primary form of communication throughout the day. The nervous system can’t unwind through cognitive description. It unsderstands through a somatic, visceral response to the environment. This is not to say that the conscious, analytical mind is somehow unwelcome in this recipe for a good night’s sleep. Every part of an individual is an important piece of the integrated whole. We are suggesting that the daytime, consciou mind can choose to find a new placement for itself by softening its continually descriptive hold throughout the day into one of soft embrace and quiet listening. These small shifts throughout the day would speak to the nervous system in its ‘native’ language, causing it to have an easier time at night in knowing how to ‘let go.’ This would allow the subconscious/unconscious to exist in daytime reality where a relationship between the seen and unseen minds can find mutual admiration for each other.