One evening, my son couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. I sat down next to him on his bed and asked him what was wrong. ‘I feel kind of weird,’ he said. Then he told me that he was worried about school. Although he was a very good student, he was stressed about the demands of the next day. I lay down next to him and told him about the RAIN method, explaining the acronyms to him. He realized that he was feeling afraid and that this fear was sitting in his stomach. I invited him to simply let the fear be there and asked him how it felt. He described it as an unpleasant pulling sensation. I suggested he put one hand on his stomach and the other on his heart to give the feeling in his stomach a little love. He liked that and calmed down and then quickly fell asleep. We’ve done RAIN again and again since then, and sometimes he really looks forward to it.