Sleep
Disorder
SLEEP PATTERNS
How
to get a better night’s sleep
Generally
it doesn’t help much to say the truth –
“thinking and worrying about it prevents it
happening.” Or “what every baby knows - to
eat when hungry and sleep when tired”.
But,
if you make yourself physically tired by appropriate
exercise rather than mental overload and put those
worries on the back-burner and then focus on pleasant
thoughts or fantasy imaging then you have a good
chance of an O.K night, regardless of your mental
state. Some people image the emptying of mind of
thought as though all thoughts can go into the waste-basket
or wherever they want to and not bother you. Some get
benefit from progressive bodily relaxation that I can
teach you. It can help if you write all thoughts just
as they come, forgetting about grammar, just let them
flow until exhausted. You can even write in the
opposite hand to encourage subconscious participation.
The resultant writing generally looks pretty trivial
stuff when you review it next day then you can
consign it to W.P.B saying “That was the past
– it has no power”.
We
just want naturalness to take over.
The
cause is the overactive, overloaded mind
– just too many thoughts bombarding where
the mind can only deal with one at a time. A computer
does the same except at thousands of a second.
Perfectionist traits that have emerged are
counter productive.
Inappropriately
you have started reviewing the day, then it
may progress to the week, then the previous month
even to the last year and maybe to a life-time of
past regret. Perhaps at age 14 you remembered
the blunder of applauding in church when not
appropriate to do so. How negative! The past only has
the power we choose to give it.
Every
living thing has a dormant period in every 24 hour
period and it is cyclical and natural.
IT IS
COMPLETELY UNNATURAL NOT TO SLEEP (Repeat this
statement)
It
can be very beneficial to get a walk each day in the
sunshine, especially in a place you like. In fact,
the best time is at sunrise. It is said that the body’s
production of melatonin in the pineal gland is most
active when enhanced by the early morning sunshine
even if clouded over then it’s still O.K.
Sleep can be thought of as coming in waves –
to catch the wave as a surfer catches the wave - an
effortless form of imaging, in other words. Keep
reading that dull book or comic then don’t miss
the next wave – the mind will tell you when
ready. A dull book or sex or a very, very light snack
but fullness has opposite effect and
alcohol is contraindicated. Indigestion and pain
detract from normal sleep.