Anxiety Insomnia Cure: Sleep Easy Despite Your Stress
Everyone has the occasional sleepless night, especially before a big event. If you're giving a major presentation the next day, or even are looking forward to a happy event like your vacation, it's hard to get to sleep. However, chronic insomnia, when difficulty in sleeping is a regular event, occurs for ten per cent of the population.
The challenge with insomnia is that the more you try to go to sleep, the more wakeful you become -- you can't force sleep. You can however prepare for it, and make sleep more likely.
Let's look at how you can get long term relief from your insomnia.
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Anxiety Insomnia Cure: Discover The Relaxation Response
A relaxed body means a relaxed mind
To deal with your anxiety insomnia, you need to learn how to completely relax your body, so that you feel as relaxed and limp as cooked spaghetti.Relaxing your body is vital, because to relax your mind, you need to start with your body. If your body is totally relaxed, it's impossible to feel stress. Therefore, develop a daily relaxation practice, in which you completely relax your body, one muscle group at a time. You can find books and tapes which will help you to learn the "relaxation response".
Anxiety Insomnia Cure: Slowing Your Mind With a Body Scan
Relax, and drift off to sleep
A body scan is a meditative technique which which help you to beat your insomnia.
Once you're in bed at night, settle down, on your back, and take several long, slow, deep breaths. Close your eyes, and relax your eyelids. Now, starting with your toes, relax every part of your body in turn. Just become aware of the body part, and say "relax..."
You can start your body scan in this way. "Left toes... relax... left foot, relax... left ankle, completely relax..."
Gradually, taking as much time as you need, relax every part of your body.
You'll usually find that before you complete your body scan, you're asleep. If you're still awake when you've relaxed your scalp, start again with the left toes.
A nightly body scan, combined with practicing daily physical relaxation, cures anxiety insomnia. Try it tonight -- you'll get a restful night's sleep.
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