Try to let your muscles "go," to go limp, to feel
yourself sinking into the mattress. Relax mentally. It usually is not possible
to let your mind go completely blank, but you can try to find something
relaxing to think about.
Sheep counting, time-honored though it is, does not
work for many people. Find something you enjoy imagining-perhaps it is sitting
in a boat with a fishing rod, watching the water, waiting for a bite. Leave
your worries outside the bedroom.
This may seem difficult to but there is a bit of basic philosophy which the poet Robert
1100.t wrote about and which all of us could use a philosophy that is most
opportune in preparing for bed: 'I've been licked. We all have. I've been
thoroughly licked when I didn’t think I could be. It was a terrible blow
sometimes. But still, most like that. . . . Anybody with an active mind lives
on tentative other than on tenets. You've got to feel a certain pleasure the finality
of it.
Every general who
goes into lie which he had more information before he goes in. But each is on
insufficient information." Of course, you have probably you won't solve
them by stewing over them in bed. If vow to keep problems out of the bedroom
and they still intrude.
Try amusing reading
If that doesn't help, pick something you feel you have a
duty, but no great desire, to read and go at it for a few minutes; the boredom
may help. Have a pad and pencil handy, and if you get ideas you think are
important, jot them down so you can forget them for the night. Don't try to
force yourself to sleep. Don't approach the bed with grim determination.
Remember that lying quietly in bed for several hours, even if sleep does not
come, is restful; and very often sleep will come. If you don't get to sleep and
lying quietly disturbs you, begin again by reading for a while or listening to
soothing music.
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