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Hi Scott,
I have been exploring Martins’s website and watching some of the success videos and I have been trying to incorporate some of the approaches. One of them is allowing the difficult thoughts and also to just feel the anxious feelings in a neutral, detached way. It does seem to help.
I have implemented a sleep window the way Martin explained in his video. Have been doing this for the past 5 nights and even though I sleep less hours than before I don’t really feel that much more tired during the day which also helps to alleviate the worrying.
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your reply!
I try to meditate when I wake at night in order to bring down the arousal in the moment and help reduce stress long term. I am also trying to still get the greatest amount of rest possible even though I am awake. But to be honest, I don’t really feel like it works. If I feel very wired meditation does not bring that down, it just helps quieten my mind from difficult thoughts. At a certain point I can just feel my body relax naturally and I know I can go back to sleep then. I don’t think I have any control over when that happens but I’ve never really thought about it that way.
The anxiety and unease I feel in the evening before bedtime feels physical. It happens when I have settled down for the evening, all activities finished. Usually I’ll be reading a book in bed (which I enjoy a lot and feels very relaxing to me) and suddenly it feels like there is a wave of electricity going through my body and I feel a general unease or anxiety that doesn’t seem to have been triggered by or to be directed at anything in particular. These last days I have read on the couch instead but I found it still happens. Doesn’t happen when I read during the day.
