You've heard the saying, "You made your bed, now you get
to sleep in it!" Countless people can't get to sleep in
the bed they made; and worse yet, they don't know it's the
bed THEY made, so they don't know they are the ones who
can change it. Now assuming that the physical bed you own is good enough,
and you haven't been drinking caffeine or eating anything
that causes acid reflux before going to bed, you can
easily change the mental and emotional "bed" that you
sleep in. Here are 5 simple ways: 1) Progressive Relaxation. Most people do not have an
adequate reference point for relaxation. They lay there
in bed, tense and sore, and think they are relaxing. They
are trying to relax, but they haven't learned to let go
of
physical stress and strain. Mental and emotional stress causes physical stress. One
way to counteract physical stress is to tense up all the
major muscle groups on purpose. Start with the big toe of
one foot, then the other big toe, then all the toes, up
the foot, ankle, calf, thighs, buttocks, abdomen, lower
back, solar chest, upper back, shoulders, upper arms,
forearms, wrists, fingers, neck, face, and scalp muscles. Make sure that when you tense the neck you do NOT hold the
breath in the neck. Continue to breath from the chest or
abdomen because holding the breath in the neck or throat
area while tensing those muscles can cause excess blood
pressure in the blood vessels of the neck, and some of
them could pop. Rapidly let go of all the tension, starting from the scalp
all the way down the muscle groups, all the way down to
the big toe, relax in a rapid wave of relaxation. With
practice you will be able to do the entire exercise
quickly, and you can also do it to relieve physical stress
while in a class lecture or meeting or at work. If there are any muscle groups that have not yet "let go"
of the tension, tense those muscles again on purpose and
then let go. 2) Another method you can use is to recall pleasant,
relaxing memories. Maybe a fishing trip or a time you
were on the beach or camping on a mountain. Remember what
you saw, what you felt, the various sounds and smells of
the environment. Or if the stress is from anxiety over an
upcoming task, remember a time when you were relaxed and
successful and did a good job. This method works best when you first obtain physical
relaxation and then do the mental relaxation drill. It's
easier to relax mentally after you relax the physical
body. 3) Many people have trouble sleeping because of unfinished
business from earlier in the day. A technique I learned
from Dr. La Tourrette has also been used by many other
mind control experts and helps to complete "unfinished
business." Get in bed, do the relaxation drill, and pretend you have
a video of your entire day in front of you. Click the
remote control to play it in reverse from the time you got
in bed. Do you notice anything you'd like to change or
do
better next time? Play that memory back again in your
imagination with the new resources and outcome you'd like
to have the next time something similar happens. Or
better yet, examine the steps that led up to the event and
learn to re-create that event again, on purpose, but with
the newer and better resources instead of just sitting
around waiting for "something" to happen again. 4) If your mind is flooded with thoughts at night, instead
of trying to fight it, let the thoughts flow and record
them or write them out. Do mind-maps of your thoughts
along with possible questions and solutions. Your mind
might have been trying to give you answers all day long,
but you were too busy, so it waited until you weren't
doing anything else to give you answers. Often, those answers help you move toward new
opportunities and new projects that can relieve some of
the stress and strain that's been keeping you awake at
night. Those ideas could be the building blocks of an
ebook or home study course that catapults you to financial
freedom so you can leave a stressful job. 5) Focus on solutions instead of problems. Focusing on
problems sets up an attractor field for stress and more
problems. When you turn those problems into projects and
set your creative abilities to work on finding solutions,
you can relax and sleep at night and work on those
solutions in your sleep and wake up in the morning after
having a dream about the solution or you might just wake
up with sudden inspiration where solutions "pop into your
head". So instead of accidentally using the power of your mind to
worry and keep you awake all night, you can beat
insomnia, be more productive, and Sleep Well! Jim Knippenberg is the author of the mindcontrolcentral.com newsletter. Do you want CUTTING-EDGE
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