[Daf]

Here is a great little thing I read, that should help people.

It has got lots of good mindfulness concepts in it…  Beginners mind, Non-Judging, Patience, Letting Go, Acceptance, Trust (In yourself), Non Striving…..

The moment I stopped struggling against insomnia it simply started going away, though not suddenly. It took quite a while. But the improvement was real from the start. Insomnia is not a thing in itself. The ability to sleep is so strong among us, humans or animals in general, that it is almost impossible to seriously alter it. Insomnia in us humans appears when we TRY (and therefore struggle) to sleep. You just need to stop doing all the things you are doing FOR sleeping and let your body and mind do whatever they want – if you sleep it’s OK but if you don’t, that’s OK too (everybody has bad sleep for all kinds of reasons once in a while). When sleep time comes just go to bed, close your eyes, and rest. Don’t TRY to sleep, as you are used to do. Just rest! If sleep comes that’s OK, if it doesn’t that’s OK too, you haven’t been very successful in getting the amount and quality of sleep you have desired anyway – that’s why you call yourself an insomniac. So why keep on trying/desiring? Just let it go. Accept your reality and move on to the things in life you can control over. Sleep is not something we can control. You just need to trust your body and mind for it and stop trying to do anything whatsoever for it. Good luck!

[Martin Reed]

This is excellent advice but unfortunately often easier said than done! Anyone interested in pursuing this approach can look into ACT for insomnia and the book “The Sleep Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night” by
Guy Meadows.

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[Edgar]

Learning to stop worrying helped me a lot in the past, when I would be anxious about sleep and dreading the night all day.

Until one day I simply said “enough, I will accept as much sleep as I get, and try to live my life as if I didn’t have insomnia”. Little by little my fear/anxiety over insomnia diminished.

So it’s a good mindset to adopt, if you can. Doesn’t work for me anymore, sadly, but it can help many people who have something of a “fear of insomnia”.

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