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When I go to bed I had fear of falling asleep. I had a thought in my mind that I will not be able to fall asleep tonight. And more i try to think about it my anxiety increase and I found it difficult to fall asleep. How can I overcome this.

[Packer Fan]

What I started doing is during the day, I start talking to my brain. At night when getting into bed I again talk to my brain. For me, the jury’s out, but its worked the last 2 nights!

[Scott]

Anxiety and insomnia can be vicious loops and it doesn’t really matter which one came first, because they tend to feed each other. The more we struggle and fight with our thoughts, the more elusive sleep becomes. Let’s take for example that you fell into quicksand. Our natural instinct is to struggle and to fight our way out of it but the more we struggle, the quicker and deeper we sink. What matters the most when we have anxious thoughts is how you respond to those thoughts. If the techniques you’ve been using haven’t been working to reduce the impact of those anxious thoughts, is it time to consider a different approach?

I wonder if you allowed room for those thoughts to merely exist without granting them the attention they seek that it might diffuse their impact. Packer Fan suggests a useful technique of labeling our thoughts as they arise, such as saying, “Oh, hello thought that I won’t sleep tonight,” and letting it drift by as mere words. It’s important to remember that our thoughts themselves aren’t the issue; it’s believing in them that poses a challenge.

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