Go to sleeeeeep!

 

I rarely have trouble falling asleep anymore but there are some nights when I just want to yell

at my brain "shut up and go to sleeeeep!!!" 
My mind will race with worries, ideas, things I need to do, things I need to say,

things I forgot to do or say.   It's like my brain is puking at the end of the day.

I have tried everything from breathing slowly, counting sheep, studying the backs of my eyelids and nothing seemed to work.

That is nothing until I started repeating the word "nothing."

A thought will come up and I just think "nothing." 

I keep repeating it and somehow it works because the next

thing I know it's 2 or 3 in the morning and I am on my first

middle of the night bathroom trip.

Try it out the next time your brain is trying to keep you from sleeping.

Just repeat in your mind "nothing."

I don't suggest "nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing" over and over but more

like a meditation "noth....ing." 

Nice and slow and as other thoughts enter, repeat.

Hope this helps you like it has helped me.