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I would love to be able to sleep until 8 or 9 am. But I am 72 years old and realize now that I cant sleep like I use to. I do want to say I have been sleeping every night since April when I took the 2 week course of Martin Reed. I had insomnia for 2 years, tossing and turning every night which was a nightmare as you all know.

It just clicked with me very quickly and I am so thankful. Sometimes I take an afternoon nap of 30 to 40 minutes but it has not affected my 6 hour sleep time and I really enjoy it. I sleep 12 until 6, sometimes 7 if I am lucky. Just knowing if I dont sleep that well I will sleep eventually, usually very very good the next night. It is hard to believe your thoughts can mess your sleep up that bad but it really does. I love Martin saying you can sleep at the end of his videos, that has been very encouraging. At one time I thought I could never sleep again and I know I am not alone in feeling this way. I use to hate for night time to come but now I dont have that fear thank goodness.

[Martin Reed]

Thanks for sharing your experience and your insights.

You are no longer putting pressure on yourself to make a certain amount or type of sleep happen. Not only does that improve conditions for sleep, it is also an act of self-kindness.

You are approaching sleep with more flexibility, allowing yourself the opportunity to nap for 30 to 40 minutes in the afternoon if that feels right to you.

You remind yourself that sleep always happens in the end and that you do not need to do anything to make sleep happen. Sleep isn’t something you do — it’s something that happens.

You now know that you never lost your natural ability to sleep. You can sleep, and you do sleep — and sleep wants to take care of itself. With your learnings, your insights, and your actions, you are now experiencing effortless sleep, whatever that might look like.

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Thank you so much for getting back to me. As you know this is a very scary thing. I also slept until 8 am this morning. I dont know why but I do know I have quit giving so much attention to my sleeping. Like you said sleep will come. Relaxing and letting sleep come and it will come if I just get a life and live it. I know now my response is what was making things bad. I would get so worked up over not sleeping and now I say sleep will come back and it always does. Thanks so much to Martin Reed and his replies that help so much as well as others on here. Sleep is coming back with my patience and almost as good as those benadryl. But with the pills I had to take more and more and then they didnt work at all.

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