How to sleep? Causes of sleeping problems- How to cure sleeping issues?

 Realizing that some sleep does occur even on seemingly sleepless nights is reassuring in the sense that it can eliminate any worries about the possible harmful effects of total sleeplessness. Realizing this has another value. The causes of sleeping problems are many, ranging from hunger and pain to excessive worry over business or other problems. Tensions can' interfere with sleep-and there are many possible tensions. But one that bothers many people is the tension associated with the conviction that sleep is not just difficult but impossible.

However bad an insomniac you may seem to be, you can be virtually certain that you are getting far more sleep than you honestly think you are getting. Aware of the cycles of sleep, of how much dreaming you do, of how you move from dream state to other stages of sleep, you can understand and take some comfort in the knowledge that your honest conviction that you do not sleep as much as you should may be founded on the fact that you often confuse dreaming and waking states. None of this, of course, means that you do not have a sleeping problem and that you may not benefit from a "refresher course" in sleeping.

FOR BETTER SLEEP

 If you have trouble with insomnia, if you are not sleeping now so that you feel refreshed in the morning, there are many things you can do to overcome the problem. One of the most important is to start by changing your attitude if it is now a fretful, worrisome one. It is now possible for you to draw re- assurance from many scientific studies that you undoubtedly sleep much more than you honestly think you do, that you are not in any acute danger of suffering a mental or physical breakdown for lack of sleep. You need not be afraid of staying awake. Some people have sleeping difficulties largely because they do worry nightly about their ability to fall asleep.