FEELS LIKE INSOMNIA, HELP!

2:30 am and i'm still wake up.“If you can’t sleep, get out of bed and do something else”—this is advice we hear all the time. But it never works for me: when I get up and turn on the light, I’m up for the night.

For most people, sleep is not an issue: you turn off the lights, you go to sleep, what’s the big deal? I think these are the people who wrote the sleep rules. But if you’re one of the sleep-stressed, like me, it’s a lot more complicated. You need to become a careful observer of your sleep, listen to your body, learn how your sleep reacts to food, drink, light, medications. Figure out what times you sleep best and worst. Read around, get on the web and find out what works for others. Then cobble together a set of practices that works.

There are no ten rules to better sleep. There is only what you can find that works.
Things I tell myself:   “You can rest now,” I repeat this, like a mantra.  “The day is done, no more work, you did good.”  Okay, I maybe not so great, but forget that for now— be kind to yourself, the day is done, you can rest.  

 It sometimes works.  Almost.