[mo2005]

Been suffering from insomnia for about a year now. I have since developed sleep anxiety around bed time which led to little or no sleep if I don’t take sleeping pills. Any advice on how to reduce nighttime anxieties as it always seems like I’m in the “fight or flight” mode when bed time rolls around.

[Scott]

@Mo2005,

Most often, when we have unhelpful thoughts about our sleep, it’s not the thought itself that is the issue, it’s our connection/relationship with that thought that can fuel it’s intensity. We can’t control what pops into our mind, only if we believe it. Even though we can’t control our thoughts – and if we try to, they tend to become worse – you DO have the ability to believe it or not. When you have those negative thoughts about sleep, how do you respond to them? If you find yourself struggling, avoiding or fighting those thoughts, the more intense that thought becomes. What if you simply allowed to let it exist by welcoming it and then carrying on with what you were doing when it arrived instead of trying to fight it? The thought probably won’t disappear when you practice this technique but it, over time, it should have less impact on you because you’re creating some space for it to exist. Thoughts are simply words in our head – you either believe them or you don’t but the trouble usually happens when we attach ourselves to the thought instead of acknowledging it and moving on.

Scott J

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