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You got it, Frank! Tracking isn’t usually helpful since it can bring more focus toward sleep, which cannot be directly controlled anyway! Our energy is probably better used doing things that matter and that keep us moving toward the life we want to live — our actions are always within our control 🙂
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It’s great that you are able to recognize you’re in a battle — because that means you can take steps to practice withdrawing from that battle!
Without the battle, there’s no constant loop because you aren’t tangled up in a struggle, trying to control what cannot be controlled.
When your brain generates thoughts as it does its job of looking out for you, part of withdrawing from the battle might involve acknowledging those thoughts and making space for them to exist and to come and go as they please.
Do you think the AWAKE exercise might be helpful to practice at night, so you have the opportunity to build some skill in moving away from the battle you described?
Since you have found that you are a human being with a human mind that can generate unhelpful and distracting thoughts during the day, too, perhaps practicing the NOW exercise during the day might also help you build some skill in being more present when your mind tries pulling you away in an unhelpful way?
You know from experience that you can’t control what your mind does, so perhaps the energy that might be used to engage in a struggle might be better used developing skill in bringing your focus back to the present so you can do what matters, even when your mind is generating unhelpful thoughts and feelings and even when it tries pulling you away from where you are and what you are doing.
Do let me know your thoughts!
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You’re welcome — glad you found the video helpful!
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My opinion is that if you feel they’re helpful, that’s all that matters — you are the expert on you!
What I would say is that the human body doesn’t require supplements or medication to generate sleep 🙂
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Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing your story! What techniques have you started to implement since you found the podcast and why do you feel they are generating results?
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Welcome to the forum! What specific changes have you made over the past six weeks?
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Nothing unique or unusual going on there, mathaiias — you might find this video helpful: How to stop the sleep roller coaster and make sleep more consistent and more predictable.
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Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear how difficult things are for you right now. There’s nothing that stands out as unique or unusual in your post — it sounds like you might be a bit tangled up in the usual struggle that insomnia tends to trigger.
You might find it helpful to enroll in my free insomnia sleep training course and see if that gives you any ideas on how to respond to all this difficult stuff in a different way.
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That’s interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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Your experience isn’t unique or unusual and, if there’s no medical explanation, it’s likely a symptom of hyperarousal. For as long as you try to fight or avoid hyperarousal you are more likely to get tangled up in a struggle with it that can make it more difficult and make sleep less likely.
It makes sense that it feel uncontrollable — because it isn’t! If it was controllable, you wouldn’t be in this situation, right? You’d have “controlled it away”! Perhaps the control agenda (which is TOTALLY understandable) is a big source of the struggle?
We’ll be really exploring all these issues in a lot more detail as you work through the course 🙂
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Those sensations are really difficult, aren’t they? If there’s no medical explanation for them, they could be a physical symptom of hyperarousal — your brain doing its job of looking out for you and trying to protect you. It’s just that it’s trying so hard, it’s getting in the way a bit — kind of like an over-enthusiastic friend who is always checking in on you and always wanting to hang out!
The thing with hyperarousal is, it comes from a good place — but it doesn’t feel good, so our normal response is to try to fight or avoid it.
Unfortunately, that strategy doesn’t usually help — if you saw a child about to cross the road as a truck was speeding toward them, you’d yell at that child to stop, right?
If they ignored you, what would you do? Stop yelling and let them cross the road and get mown down by that truck? You’d probably yell even louder and more frantically, right?
And that’s what our brain can end up doing if we try to fight or avoid hyperarousal — it’s looking out for us, thinking there’s a threat present and we are ignoring it. So, it’s going to yell louder and generate even more hyperarousal in response.
So, with all this in mind, perhaps it might be helpful to practice responding in a different way? Instead of trying to fight or avoid, you might try acknowledging the thoughts and feelings your brain is generating (even though they can feel really unpleasant). If you’re feeling really openminded, perhaps you might even thank your brain for looking out for you!
And, at the same time, perhaps it might be helpful to explore ways you might be able to train your brain that wakefulness isn’t a threat it needs to be so alert to protect you from at night? Perhaps you might consider ways of experiencing wakefulness with less struggle. If there’s not a nightly battle occurring when wakefulness shows up, perhaps your brain can learn that it’s not something it needs to be so alert to protect you from at night?
I hope there’s something useful here!
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I’ve translated your post, courtesy of Google Translate, below. Moving forward, I would suggest posting in English if possible, since that is the language used in this forum:
I want to heal
I haven’t slept for 5 days, I became anxious for not doing it, I was afraid that night would come, I started taking a medication that helped me but I am working on the psychological issue together, exercising and sleeping, I don’t know how I feel I am very afraid of depending on the sleeping pill, I want to be able to leave it and sleep like before, I really hope that these emails will help me get out of this hell
Welcome to the forum. It sounds as though the medication is something you don’t feel comfortable with — have you shared that with your doctor?
The good news is that the human body doesn’t require medication to generate sleep. What it needs is for us to not be involved in the process of sleep! The more we try to make it happen, the more difficult it becomes. And, when it becomes difficult, we also experience a lot of difficult thoughts and feelings — and, because they don’t feel good, we try to fight or avoid them. Then, before we know it, we are trapped in a vicious cycle and get stuck.
So what you are experiencing is not unique or unusual. Difficult, for sure. But not unique or unusual.
I hope you find the free sleep training emails helpful — and if you have any questions, feel free to post them here!
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Yup, that makes sense — the more you try to fight or avoid certain thoughts and feelings, the more difficult they can become. You can’t control what your mind chooses to do — but you can change how you respond to what it chooses to do. Do you feel there might be any benefit to moving away from the endless battle with your mind night after night (and perhaps day after day, too)?
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I am not sure I’ve come across anyone who is able to permanently control their minds so they can permanently lower arousal — and anyone who could do that might not live for very long since arousal is something the brain generates as it does its job of looking out for us!
Perhaps arousal becomes more difficult when we try to fight or avoid it?
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Great questions and completely legitimate and valid concerns there!
First, it can be helpful to recognize that sleep deprivation is not the same as chronic insomnia.
Secondly there’s no evidence that chronic insomnia causes any health problem — but it can certainly make living the kind of life we want to live a lot more difficult!
Sleep always happens in the end — it’s impossible to stay awake indefinitely. And, the body will always generate — at the very least — the minimum amount of sleep it needs as long as it is given the opportunity to do so.
This stuff is difficult, no doubt about it. I hope there’s something useful here.
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