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Since a sleep window is always longer than your average nightly sleep duration (so it doesn’t reduce the opportunity for sleep) I am curious to know why you feel it’s going to be difficult to implement a sleep window while employed?
If you could share more of your thinking there, perhaps I can offer a pointer or two!
PS: Plenty of success stories on the podcast. 15 years is a long time, but it’s not the record, not by a long way!
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If I understand your question correctly, David, acceptance is about accepting that there’s some difficult stuff that comes with being a human being that we cannot control.
We aren’t saying we want this difficult stuff to exist — instead, we are acknowledging that we might not be able to control it.
When we move away from trying to control what cannot be controlled (sleep, thoughts, feelings) we can free up energy and expand the focus of our attention — and this can help us better live the kind of life we want to live, even when difficult stuff we cannot control is present.
The more we continue to live the kind of life we want to live, the more we move away from trying to fight or avoid wakefulness, what we think, and how we feel, the less of an influence all this difficult stuff might start to have over us.
The more we can be open and accepting of difficult thoughts and feelings (and difficult nights of sleep) the better able we might be to respond in a way that moves us away from endless struggle and toward doing things that help us live a rich and meaningful life.
Am I on the right lines here? Did I help answer your question?
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Hello Alya!
1. Plenty of people are working through the course while still taking medication. Do you currently have any plan in place for how/when you might start to move away from the medication, if that’s one of your goals?
2. If you enjoy practicing Yoga Nidra — if it’s something that’s aligned with your values and helps you live the kind of life you want to live, then it’s definitely OK to continue practicing that! If it’s not something you really enjoy, if it’s not something that helps you live the kind of life you want to live, if it’s something you’re practicing only in an attempt to control what you’re thinking or feeling, it might be something that has the potential to get you a bit tangled up in a struggle.
3. As for the anxiety you described with the sleep window, that’s natural and normal and is a sign that your brain is doing its job and looking out for you (thanks brain!). How are you responding to that anxiety? I’d also be curious to know why you are getting out of bed — that’s not something suggested in the course so I’d be interested to know what your goal is with that!
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Thanks for sharing that you’ve been making progress and that you’re experiencing some typical setbacks on your journey, Kmm!
I removed your email address from your post so it doesn’t get picked up by spam bots.
If anyone wants to connect with you, they can contact me and I can make the connection “behind the scenes”!
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Thanks for letting me know that made sense — and the key word is, as you mentioned, practice! These are new skills and they require ongoing practice!
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That sounds really difficult, Fifi — and at the same time you are not alone. What you described is not unique or unusual.
When you wake at night (which is a normal part of sleep) what do you do next? How do you respond to that wakefulness and any difficult thoughts or feelings that might come with it?
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You’re welcome — and thank you for your kind words!
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Thanks for sharing, Neal — I appreciate you taking the time to share your progress!
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Thanks for the update!
I appreciated you sharing that big insight at the end of your post — that shifting focus onto the things that are within your control, and continuing to do things that matter (no matter how small) can often be more helpful than struggling with all the difficult stuff that’s out of your control!
I am sure others will also find it reassuring that after CBT-I didn’t prove to be helpful for you, you were still able to find an approach that was!
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Welcome to the forum! If you have any questions while you’re on your journey please feel free to post them here!
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Welcome aboard, Leslie! Nobody is ever broken — we can just get stuck from time to time!
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What you are going through is hard, Kmm. As you have seen from all the supportive replies you have received, you are not alone!
As you have experienced, we can’t really delete thoughts from our mind — at least, not permanently anyway. They always come back, right?
So, with that in mind, one way of reducing the struggle might involve practicing moving away from trying to fight or avoid what’s going on in your mind. To acknowledge what your brain is saying. To make space for those thoughts and feelings to come and go as they choose, and to be kind to yourself in return.
I hope there’s something useful here.
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Welcome to the forum, Glen!
The worry and concern you described is natural and normal — that’s your brain looking out for you (thanks, brain)!
Since you’re still finding sleep difficult, it sounds as though we can discount sleep hygiene, vitamins, and minerals as being the solution.
Perhaps the source of much of your struggle might be the ongoing effort to make sleep happen, to get rid of wakefulness when it shows up, and/or to fight or avoid the difficult thoughts and feelings that often come with insomnia.
Could that be a possibility?
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The human body doesn’t require any type of supplement to generate sleep.
Sometimes it’s the ongoing experimentation with supplements (and even medication) that can train the brain to believe that wakefulness is a threat that it needs to be alert at night to protect us from — it’s one of the understandable efforts we can engage in to make sleep happen that ends up making sleep even more difficult!
To fall asleep naturally, we need to be sleepy enough for sleep (we need to have been awake for long enough) and we need to completely remove ourselves from the process of sleep. The more we try, the more we usually set ourselves up for a struggle!
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Desire to sleep doesn’t stop sleep from happening — but trying to make sleep happen sure can!
In other words, what’s going on in your mind probably isn’t the obstacle here — it might be your response that’s making things more difficult.
I hope this helps!
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