Insomnia – Some Mental Tricks That May Help You Get to Sleep
By Royane Real
Author of "How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative "
Do you suffer from insomnia? Almost everyone suffers from insomnia occasionally, but for most people, an inability to fall asleep is just an occasional, temporary problem.
Still, if you are suffering from sleeplessness, while you are restlessly tossing and turning, you probably feel that you would give anything to get the sleep you so desperately need. In addition to the boredom of being awake and exhausted, you probably also torment yourself with the thought that in just a few hours you’re going to have to get out of bed and face another day.
These kinds of thoughts can make your insomnia feel even worse.
Why do people have insomnia? There are many reasons why people sometimes can’t fall asleep or stay asleep. Some of the reasons for insomnia are very minor, temporary, and can be fixed quite easily. In some cases, the causes of insomnia are far more serious and will need the help of a medical professional.
If your problem with sleeplessness is not very serious, here are a few suggestions for you to try:
First, don’t make your problem with sleeplessness even worse by telling yourself that it’s a terrible thing that you can’t sleep. Tell yourself that you’re grateful just for the opportunity to lie down for a while. You’ll also need to find some ways to overcome the belief that your sleeplessness is a problem. Here are a couple of little mental tricks that might help you get your mind to relax and go into the deeper levels of sleep that you need.
The first trick is to tell yourself that even though you might feel as if you are wide awake, you are already deep asleep. You can tell yourself that your feeling of sleeplessness is just something that you are dreaming. Tell yourself, “I am having a dream that I am still awake, but since that is just a dream, it means that I am really deep asleep. I am enjoying being asleep so deeply, and I will let this dream keep going wherever it wants to go.”
Telling yourself that your sensation of sleeplessness is just a dream may reduce your anxiety about having insomnia. This can encourage your mind to calm down and drift deeper into a restful state. Telling yourself that you are simply dreaming that you have insomnia may even be true!
Here is a second mind trick that may help you to get to sleep when you have insomnia.
Instead of tormenting yourself with the thought that you can’t get to sleep and this is terrible, give yourself a different message. Tell yourself that you absolutely must stay awake, no matter how difficult it may be. You can say, “No matter how hard it is, I absolutely have to stay awake. Even though it may be very hard for me to stay awake, I have to do it. It’s really, really, important.”
You may find that the harder you actually try to stay awake, the more quickly you will fall asleep.
The next time you are having trouble tossing and turning at night, worried about your inability to fall asleep, why not try at least one of these mind tricks and see if they will help you get the restful sleep you need.
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