Track Listing

1. Introduction: Meet Nomi
2. Progressive Relaxation: �The Inside Out Blessing Game�
3. �On Your Way to Dreamland��
4. Soothing Song: �Count Your Blessings�
5. Creative Visualization: �Come Inside�
6. Soothing Song: �Inside Out�

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88344 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Album Description
Formerly known as "The Inside-Out Sleep Game", The Inside-Out Blessing Game is a great naptime or quiet-time tool, encouraging quiet reflection and gratitude. This fun audio CD features restful music and enjoyable exercises to help children focus on blessings, appreciate their bodies, and look inward to find solutions to problems.

The world can often seem full of problems, which doesn’t go unnoticed by children. Like many adults, kids often replay the day’s events in their minds, or worry about tomorrow, when they should be resting. Now little ones can relax and release their worries with The Inside-Out Blessing Game.

This recording is a combination of music, story telling, and fun exercises that nurture mind, body and spirit.

Amazon.com
Instead of further saddling parents with a sinking sense of ineptitude, yawn-queen Patti Teel takes over for herds of fed-up sleep whisperers from the get-go on her second CD, waving them off the way a Broadway starlet might shoo away her understudy. Nothing is taken for granted. Before we meet Nomi, the make-believe turtle that accompanies the kids through this soporific and semi-spiritual CD, we're instructed to turn off the recording and get our teeth brushed and our jammies on. Then and only then may we get down to the business of seducing the sandman, which turns out to be very serious business indeed. Why count fluffy sheep, for instance, when you could count your blessings, part of Teel's technique, instead?

Many but not all roads to slumber are solemn on The Inside-Out Sleep Game. "Blessing Game," the second of six tracks, teaches yoga-like relaxation exercises along the lines of wriggling your nose like a bunny and raising your eyebrows to the sky. The part about bending back each finger may give parents of hardcore kids pause, but otherwise this is progressive relaxation with the potential to be flawlessly executed. For some, it'll render tracks three through six unnecessary. For those less apt to sack out quickly and quietly, two gentle songs remain, plus a brief sensory exploration activity and a visualization game involving a romp through a wild paradise with Nomi. There's no guaranteeing that a nap or a good night's sleep will be netted by disc's end, but if relaxation or quiet time is what you're after--if what you need more than anything is for your child to chill out--you're in good hands. Those who'd prefer to have their hands held, i.e., parents who harbor hopes that somebody else will do the reminding about brushing before bed, can't go wrong, either. --Tammy La Gorce

New York Daily News, February 2002
Two routines help children calm down, find "quiet time"…and go inward for positive reflection at bedtime.

Customer Reviews

very relaxing
This cd was excellent for my 6 year old, who had a very hard time getting to sleep. This cd focused her mind outside of her own worries while at the same time helping her to relax enough to go to sleep. She has yet to make it to the end of the cd awake! Patti Teel's voice is very soothing, and my daughter and I joke about the little turtle named Nomi, who is a little character in the scenarios set up by Teel. I highly recommend this cd for all children when they hit the age where they begin to worry before bed.

For parents concerned that their children be well rested
With The Inside-Out Sleep Game, songwriter/performer Patti Teel has created a unique and very highly recommended album of music and advice specific to the needs of children troubled and worried about the events of the day to the point that it impairs their ability to achieve a restful sleep at night. Listening to this remarkable CD will enable children to relax while focusing on their bodies and feelings as part of their bedtime routine through progressive relaxation, creative visualization, and a focus on slow relaxed breathing. The Inside-Out Sleep Game is strongly recommended for parents concerned that their children be well rested and learn to cope with the inevitable emotional and mental stresses of the world their children are now growing up in.

I want to hug Patti Teel!
Goodness I never imagined this CD would work SO well! I thought maybe it would help my 4 year old son relax a bit at bedtime so maybe he would fall asleep faster. He was having a very hard time settling down at night and would be up and out of bed many times and we were getting really frustrated with him. We were trying rewards for staying in bed, punishments for getting out, etc and it was taking him 1 1/2 hours from his first tuck-in to finally falling asleep.

The first night he listened to this CD he fell asleep in eight (8!) minutes!

God bless Patti Teel and the Inside Out Blessing GAme.