When a very young child part is in distress, a lovely way to bring soothing is to sing to them.

Think about that lovely free way children sometimes sing to themselves or anyone who will listen, a song about ‘we are going in the car, to the shop, today to the shops, there’s ice-cream at the shops’  kind of sing song nonsense and more about sounding out than the literal meaning of the song.

Think about how parents sing lullabies to children, then the song runs out and the child demands more, so the parent is left singing in soothing tones about nothing in particular.

Yesterday I was lying in bed and a young part was in distress, thinking she had lost a friend and was all alone in the world.

I started sounding in bed, like an ongoing chant, using the words ‘oooohhhhh’ and ‘aaaahhhhh’ and feeling what they brought to the tension in my belly and my heart.

Before long I found the chant-style sounds had become a lullaby to myself, about how my chest feels and how my belly feels and about how “I’m here for you” and “You’re here for me”.

It was a very soothing, grounding practice, it kept my attention both with my inner state and with the adult part of me capable of bringing something needed to it.

Have an explore with using your own voice in a chant or gentle song to bring contact and soothing and presence to a young part.  Maybe you’ll make up your own lullaby to sing (ideally) or record and playback.

Your very own sound healing.