[Ockabbe]

I have recently come to the realization that part of my sleep difficulty is the fact that I cannot seem to let myself go. I will lay awake in bed, tossing and turning, but never relaxing myself enough for a good deep sleep. I am afraid of letting my body go and do it’s own thing. How can I learn to trust my body?

[hiker]

I have found that laying awake in bed almost guarantees I will not get back to sleep. And trying to relax hasn’t worked all that well, either.

Can you think of a time when you have felt relaxed? Not because I tried, you just felt relaxed. How about a time when you treated yourself well, or when you gave yourself a break, when you stopped demanding so much of yourself? Here is one that has been challenging for me: can you think of a time when you just stopped trying to figure everything out?

I have gone back and forth with insomnia for a lot of years (for a lot of reasons not important right now–it doesn’t mean you will, too). And I have tried to think my way to solutions, e.g. as a lawyer. But all that thinking and analyzing really hasn’t helped me when it comes to sleep. Maybe it sounds like I am giving up, but I seem to sleep better when I realize there is only so much I can do about it. That if I don’t sleep well tonight, well, I’d like to but I have made it through many days on poor sleep…..and then not infrequently I sleep better.

I know a lot more about insomnia than I wish I knew! I can say that I have found Martin’s videos to be a concise summary of the main issues most of us deal with.

[Martin Reed]

Implementing an appropriate sleep window can be really helpful at rebuilding trust in your body’s natural ability to sleep since the technique helps build sleep drive and will help you generate a much stronger sense of sleepiness as bedtime approaches.

Not only can that heightened sense of sleepiness be reassuring, but it can also help overpower any sleep-related fear or worry, and help you fall asleep.

I hope this helps!

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