[Eric Flanders]

Hello everyone, I’ve been struggling with insomnia now for 6 months and have tried quite a bit of remedies with no help. I look forward to see improvement with bedtime restrictions.

[Chee2308]

Hi Eric and greetings
I wonder why you call your “dilemma” a frustration? People who have sleep disruption tend to recover better and faster if they are willing to be more accepting and optimistic about their situation. Think of sleeping more like eating because essentially these two processes are the same to your body. Are you frustrated that you were hungry yesterday, last week, last month or months ago? Or do you get upset when you just ate a bit less on a certain day? Well it doesn’t matter because you will always make up for it the next meal and you don’t suddenly stop eating one day, so the opportunities for eating and sleeping in this case, are always abundant. Therefore how you eat or sleep for a certain day doesn’t matter over the long term, the body just know how to right itself over time. Sleep is something that you have absolutely no control over, it is an involuntary process just like breathing, sweating or regulating your body temp etc unlike other
actions which you can control and are voluntary such as flexing your arms, stretching your legs or moving your jaws to chew. So perhaps you should rethink your mindset about sleep and stop trying to control an involuntary process like sleep because you can’t and never will.

[Eric Flanders]

Thats a great answer and it makes sense. The way I view things I guess could or is part of the problem.

Thank you

[Chee2308]

Hi Eric
I am glad you didn’t find my answer long-winded. Best wishes to you and I hope your sleep gets back on track soon.

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