Stress causes sleep loss. If it gets to that stage for you, think hard about what you're doing to yourself. You need to be able at least to put down your job when you go home at night. Better yet is the goal to have absolutely nothing on your mind all day every day, but that's much harder. Anyway, if you do find yourself lying awake at night with your mind racing, make a list. Just write down everything that comes to you so you can pick it back up in the morning. The reason you're thinking yourself awake is that you know you're going to forget something important. If you write it down to look at in the morning, suddenly your mind is able to let it go and you can sleep.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - I am familiar with relaxation-inducing lists myself.
PPS - Sometimes I wish I'd realise it would help sooner.
2 comments:
I tried this last night.
It didn't really help, just made room for more, and rather larger, things to be worried about.
Sometimes those are the things you should be concerned about. Sometimes they're just other things to get off your mind. Maybe making a list only works in certain circumstances.
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