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Welcome to the forum — and I wish you all the best on your journey! If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here. You are not alone!
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What’s your current approach to sleep since you decided to move away from sleeping pills? Did you discuss that with your doctor?
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Wow, thank you so much for sharing, Laura!
When we stop chasing after sleep, when we aren’t engaged in the struggle, when it’s no longer the focus of our attention or the boss of our actions, things typically start to get a bit easier — just as you described!
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I moved your post here to the client forum, kml 🙂
Thanks for sharing how liberating it felt to move away from all those rituals! Your evenings sound far more pleasant and how much nicer is it not having to track sleep or analyze numbers that you have no control over anyway?!
It sounds as though you’ve freed up more energy and attention to do things that matter to you and you’re moving away from the insomnia struggle!
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I think it can be helpful to acknowledge all the thoughts and feelings your mind is generating as it does its job of looking out for you and allowing them to come and go as they choose. Trying to fight or avoid them is not only futile (since we can’t directly or permanently control the mind) but it’s exhausting and it can end up consuming all your energy and attention!
I think it’s perfectly OK to change your sleep window when your lifestyle is going to be changing. Ultimately, we want our focus to be on living the life we want to live rather than trying to protect or otherwise control what cannot be controlled (like sleep)!
I hope this helps!
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Thanks for sharing! Remember that the sleep window is only one tool that can be used to help move us away from chasing after sleep. It cannot generate sleep or control sleep since sleep cannot be controlled!
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It’s amazing how much power all this difficult stuff loses, once we stop engaging in a struggle with it!
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How did you make sleep happen before you retired? What’s different in your approach now, compared to back then? Any insights there?
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Have you and your doctor come up with a tapering-off plan? If so, it can be helpful to stick to that plan, regardless of how each individual night goes. Good luck!
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I suspect most people fear death. It’s probably hard-wired into the human brain as a survival mechanism and without that fear, I doubt many of us would be alive today. So, although it can be difficult, that’s a natural and normal feeling/emotion — and, by itself, it doesn’t prevent sleep from happening.
What can make sleep more difficult is trying to fight or avoid certain thoughts and feelings. That’s because we cannot directly or permanently control what the mind does. The more we try, the more we struggle. The more we struggle, the more energy we expend and the less focused we become on doing things that matter and engaging in the world around us. This, in turn, can make everything more difficult.
So a more useful response might be acknowledging these difficult thoughts and feelings. Moving away from the endless and exhausting struggle. Being kind to yourself when they show up. Allowing them to come and go as they please. Then, refocusing your attention on doing things that matter to you. Living the life you want to live, even in the presence of difficult thoughts and feelings and even after difficult nights.
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That sounds like an awful situation to have experienced. I am sorry that happened to you.
The worry you described is natural and normal — and, waking during the night is actually natural and normal, too. What can make falling back to sleep more difficult is trying to fight or avoid those awakenings, trying to make sleep happen, putting pressure on yourself to fall back to sleep, and/or battling with the difficult thoughts and feelings that can come along for the ride.
That’s because sleep cannot be directly controlled and the more we try to control what cannot be controlled, the more we engage in a battle and a struggle — and your brain is unlikely to allow you to fall asleep if it thinks you’re at war!
I hope there’s something helpful here.
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When sleep wasn’t a problem, what did you do differently compared to all the things you’re doing now? Perhaps there might be an insight there?
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Yes — that anxiety is difficult; no doubt about it!
Sometimes when our goal is to get rid of anxiety it can make things more difficult since we can then get tangled up in a struggle that consumes so much of our energy and attention.
That struggle, in turn, can make the anxiety more difficult and make it harder for us to do things that matter. So, we then try harder and harder and continue to struggle and struggle and become well and truly stuck!
No matter how stuck we get, though, we always have the opportunity to get unstuck by changing our approach and our response to this difficult stuff!
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Wonderful — thanks for sharing!
I don’t think we need to get too tangled up trying to change the way we think (is that even possible?) but we can always change how we respond to how we think, if we know from experience that our response isn’t workable!
If we respond in a way that is aligned with our values and keeps us moving toward the life we want to live, as a bonus we might start to feel a bit better too!
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Thanks for the great questions, Dave!
It’s up to you how often you wish to go through the AWAKE exercise! I’d suggest running through it at least once, but you can go through it over and over for as long as you’re finding it useful. And, you can take as long as you like to work through it and you can spend more (or less) time on each part of the exercise, depending on what you feel is most helpful/useful.
You can definitely practice the exercise while out of bed and watching TV if you like — it might be a bit harder to fully immerse yourself in the process while the TV is on, but you are the expert on you!
The guided version is there only as an example — I’d invite you to come up with your own version that is tailored to you 🙂
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