Falling asleep sounds easy, but the reality is many of us struggle with lack of sleep on a regular basis. It’s a frustrating feeling not being able to sleep.
Have you turned to medication for relief? Maybe you have given up all together and forced yourself to accept these sleepless nights as just a fact of life. Lying awake trying to fall off to sleep can be miserable. Too tired to do anything else but not tired enough to sleep. And the harder you try, the worse it gets.
When the conscious mind is busy with worry, anxiety, fears, or emotional conflicts, the brain has a hard time letting go. You might lie in bed tossing and turning, your mind racing with worries and lists of things to do.
Some people go over and over their day, worry about tomorrow, repeat endless conversations with their inner voice, or just worry so much about not being able to sleep that they indeed cannot sleep! The minutes turn to hours as dawn approaches.
Some people flip through TV channels, check email or thumb pages of books hoping their mind will be distracted just long enough to drift into sleep. Yet night after night the insomnia remains.