Stress and Insomnia part 2
Wow, for one suffering from long term insomnia, there is nothing like a good night’s sleep. And last night I actually had one and I woke up feeling refreshed and wonderful.
The first night of saying my affirmations I also slept well, but they only worked that one night, after that I was back to my old pattern of waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep. I kept trying my affirmations for a few days, but they did not seem to be helping. I think the problem was I just did not believe myself when I told myself I slept well every night. My little critic kept saying yeah right! Then why are you feeling so tired today if you sleep so well, and things like that. An affirmation will only work if it feels good to you and it is not followed with a pile of doubt and negative mind chatter. Anyway, if you want to find out more about affirmations head over to my “ancient wisdom modern mind” blog where I discuss how to use and not use affirmations. http://www.ancientwisdommodernmind.com/blog
Before I went to bed last night, I wanted to try something else so I could give you and update here and hopefully get a good night sleep. So I let it be known to my subconscious mind that I wanted some other things to try and let it do the job of bringing me some good ideas.
I never have trouble getting to sleep when I first get into bed. My problem is that I wake up in the middle of the night, often stressing about something. During the day I have good control over my mind and what I choose to think about. But for some reason in the early hours of the morning my mind takes control and I can have the same thought over and over and it makes it impossible to go back to sleep. Sometimes the thoughts are not even about real things, but at that time of night they seem very real and the most important things in the world. It is only the next morning that I realise it was total junk.
So the idea that came to me was to take a pen and paper to bed with me. Then if I woke up in the night, instead of just letting my mind have control and keep repeating the same thoughts, I could write down what the thoughts were. That way, if they were junk thoughts, I would be more awake and conscious of the fact and therefore be able to let them go. And if there were relevant to my life, I could get them down on paper, knowing I could deal with them in the morning and then let them go.
So that is what I did. When I woke up my mind was racing about a discussion I had had with my husband and a solution to a problem. So I wrote them down and then went to sleep straight away and did not wake up until after 6am. And as I said in the beginning I woke up feeling great.
So I’ll keep trying this for a few nights and report back here. If you have any methods that help you sleep please let us know. Let’s help each other out here.
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Ok until next time
Kerry
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