Hello everybody.
I'm usually tucked up in bed right now, but I can't get to sleep. Isn't it annoying when you lay there tossing and turning and are wide awake.:rolleyes:
Hi there earthmother,
You are prob asleep now having had a restless night?!!
You are so right - it's desperately annoying to be lying awake - have had this problem for close on 5 years now. I still manage to survive but some days are a bit of a blur!! It's been good to read the many suggestions about treating insomnia on this forum.
Here's wishing us all peaceful zzzzzz in 2008!
x
I have to agree: I usually fall asleep without a problem but invariably, if I have to get up early for work, I will be unable to drop off the night before. So then you lie there, knowing that you're not going to have enough sleep and worrying that you won't hear the alarm. It seems to me I always drop off about half an hour before I have to get up - and then I'm tired all day. There's nothing worse than not being able to fall asleep when you're tired.
xxx
Doing some breathing and focusing on relaxing your body starting from your feet up towards your head is a great way to help you fall asleep.
I bet you won't get to the top of your body, you'll be fast asleep half way through this breathing exercise.
Thats a good suggestion from Rosi1 except that I usually advise from the top of the head to the feet! Whatever works is what is really important.
I usually advise from the top of the head to the feet!
Whatever works is what is really important.
I agree.
I recall that Murdock in the 'A-Team' had a special technique that he used on B. A. Baracus from time to time.
Not recommended on persons with a thinner skull! :034:
Regards.
Prashna
Reply to Prashna - I aint drinking no milk you crazy fooool.
Reply to Prashna - I aint drinking no milk you crazy fooool.
'fooools' are those who are full to the brim with the milk of human kindness. :028:
Just like me demonstrating the eternal spring of kindness; again. :035:
bmmmmmph! :007:
I find that nightime Kalms help me to sleep.Only trouble is I then have trouble waking up the next morning.
i used to have a terrile time sleeping ut since the doctor has upped my painkillers plus gave me a tablet to help me relax i get quite chilled out at bedtime, i know this is not good ut i was not sleeping because of how much pain i was in so you go with what is best for you at the time.but i still do deep breathing every night when i go to bed and give myself reiki.
Have you heard of Nitric Oxide? I use to toss and turn and night and couldn't sleep until I came across it, now I have such a good quality sleep.
If I have trouble sleeping I usually go and take a warm bath, then I drink a glass of warm milk. This usually makes me fall asleep very fast.
I know what Carebear means re Kalms - I used them when I had trouble sleeping. I went to sleep fine, but had trouble getting up the next morning & felt really groggy, so I wouldn't recommend them! 🙁
Love & Kindness,
Green Girl xx
Here's a little story for anyone who has trouble sleeping. It highlights the fact that "trying" to sleep is the worst thing you can do.
When I was a kid, I had trouble sleeping. One night when I complained that I could not sleep, my father told me that if I could stay awake until 2am he would give me £10. If I could stay awake until 4am, he would give me £15 and if I could stay awake all night, he would give me £20. So, I went back to bed and focussed on trying to stay awake (I had previously concentrated on trrying to sleep) - I lasted about 15 minutes before I dropped off!
am still awake! am off to bed toget osme sleep and have to wake up 8.30 am hope i wake up as i am going out. i think worry too much about waking up in time so i get insomniac maybe?
Amethystfairy:sleep: