Mother’s step-by-step bedtime ritual that she says is guaranteed to get kids to sleep EVERY time
Positive affirmations, a breathing exercise, and shutting down their Chakras
- Sydney’s Danielle Wright wrote a bedtime guide called Sleepy Magic
- The book details the five steps it takes to send a child to sleep
- Steps include affirmations, questions, breathing, a story and relaxation
- It incorporates meditation and chakras to add an element of spirituality
- Mrs Wright wrote the book after she quit her corporate job to slow down
Like most parents, Danielle Wright knows all too well that telling the kids it’s ‘bedtime’ can give them as much energy as a ‘shot of espresso’.
But within 20 minutes Mrs Wright claims she can have her two boys ready for sleep, no matter how hyper they may seem.
The Sydney resident told Daily Mail Australia she started a simple sleep ritual with her kids that she says is guaranteed to make them nod off, and has shared her five steps to dream-filled nights in her book: Sleepy Magic.
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Sweet dreams: Sydney mother Danielle Wright wrote Sleepy Magic, a bedtime ritual for parents to undertake with their kids
Tried and tested: Mrs Wright performs the five-step bedtime ritual with her sons Evan, 10 and Ben, 6, each night
The book is a guide for parents to help combat sleepless nights.
Steps include a series of positive affirmations, asking ‘what are you proud of today?’, a breathing exercise, imaginative story and body relaxation.
Mrs Wright started the bedtime routine after a ‘mid-life crisis’ saw her leave her stressful career running an advertising agency to find peace through holistic practices.
‘I just wasn’t living the life I wanted to live,’ Mrs Wright, 43, told Daily Mail Australia.
Simple: The bedtime ritual includes positive affirmations, asking ‘what are you proud of today?’, a breathing exercise, imaginative story and body relaxation
‘I was one of those supermums trying to run my own business, have a family, and run a household.
‘I thought ‘I can’t keep living like this, it’s not good for me or my family’.’
Mrs Wright visited a kinesthesiologist who taught her healing techniques, and she slowly started to shift her life.
The benefits were immense, and she started to come up with ways to incorporate the techniques in to her children’s lives.
Making a change: Mrs Wright started to develop the Sleepy Magic routine after her own ‘mid-life crisis’ saw her turn to a holistic way of life
‘I decided one night to do meditation on my son at bedtime,’ she said.
‘He kept asking for it … and it became a habit.
‘It made a huge difference, him getting to sleep was easy and there was no frustration around sleep anymore.’
She tried the same technique on her then three-year-old, and the results were the same.
Dream well: Steps include positive affirmations and asking ‘what are you proud of today?’
Shutting off: The ritual finishes by getting the child to visualise closing down their seven chakras, or energy points
The five-step ritual includes an imaginative story or meditation and finished with the closing down of the child’s chakras or energy points.
‘I’m introducing a bit of spirituality to them,’ Mrs Wright said.
‘You are just saying to them to close down the energy inside of them, they’re doing a visualisation of shutting down.’
Goodnight: The book will be available in leading bookstores in Australia
Another step is having a conversation with your children about what they are proud of that day and about 90 seconds of breathing exercises.
She said the techniques were aimed at children between three and 10 years old, but they could be used on teenage children who might be feeling stressed.
Sleepy Magic is available in major bookstores.
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