What's the best treatment for insomnia?!
Question: For the past few weeks I've been having trouble falling asleep. Once I'm asleep it's fine but it's taking me hours to get to sleep.
I've always been able to sleep so I'm not sure what's causing my insomnia. I'm not majorly worried about anything but I think it might be because my brain seems to go into overdrive and I cant help thinking about lots of random things.
Are there any tricks/treatments I could use which have worked for you?
Answers: For the past few weeks I've been having trouble falling asleep. Once I'm asleep it's fine but it's taking me hours to get to sleep.
I've always been able to sleep so I'm not sure what's causing my insomnia. I'm not majorly worried about anything but I think it might be because my brain seems to go into overdrive and I cant help thinking about lots of random things.
Are there any tricks/treatments I could use which have worked for you?
I got the same challege!!
I find that when I do plenty of Physical activity during my day I sleep much better!!
See insomnia treatments, in section 3, at *ezy-build, below. Use one of the relaxation methods, in bed, after lights out, on pages 2, 11, 2.c, or 2.i, but they can take some time to learn, (progressive muscular relaxation excepted) so learn and become proficient in their use during the day; an alternative is to use the EFT, in section 53, and pages 2.q, and 2.o, saying to yourself: "Even though I currently have a sleep disorder, I deeply and completely accept myself." (or choose your own wording) while you use the acupressure tapping technique. Find out which works best for you, in the daylight hours, so you will be prepared, come bedtime. For many people, a good idea is to develop a set "wind down" routine for the last hour before bedtime, so your unconscious mind learns that it is time to put thinking aside, and prepare for mindfulness, (awareness, without cogitation/purposeful thought) or the EFT, in preparation for sleep, but the idea here is to not even think about sleeping: just drift off, naturally. * http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris
I sometimes have this problem too and have found a few things that have helped. Firstly, no caffeine of any kind after 2pm. Exercising helps (not before bed time, but during the day).
I also read somewhere that if you tense up all your muscles in bed until it hurts, the release tricks your body into thinking that you are relaxing for sleep. A glass of warm milk always helps!
It ain't easy, but I found myself in a situation where I was working twelve hour shifts, seven days a week with an hour commute each way. All I did was eat, sleep and work, and it became important that I not mess around going to sleep.
I had read a book on meditation, and it said not to meditate lying down as you will probably go to sleep. I tried it and it worked. I'd suggest you get a book on meditation.
Another shift worker I knew used self-hypnosis [another book]. He said that after a while, he stopped remembering when his head hit the pillow. One of the downsides for him was that he couldn't watch TV lying down or he'd immediately go to sleep.
It is a fact that if you just lie there with your eyes closed and not moving, even though your mind is planning your life for the next two or three hundred years, that's worth 70% of the rest you would get sleeping.
The last suggestion is to get up and do some exercise. I've never tried that, but it's supposed to help.
And, as a spin-off, you might learn to meditate, which is a truly great tool to use when your mind decides that it's not going to be on your side and attacks you.