Racing Thoughts While Trying To Sleep? Try This.

so it often seems to happen that at night time our mind appears especially busy maybe it hits us as soon as we lie down on the bed maybe it even wakes us up in the middle of the night but when the mind is very busy it's very difficult to focus on anything else and it's certainly very difficult

to let go enough to fall asleep or to fall back to sleep and a busy mind needs working with in a very particular way if it's busy we kind of need to give it something to do but we don't want to give it so much to do that it continues to feel busy

so there's a really simple technique takes a bit of patience but is really effective in quieting the mind in relaxing the body and in creating the conditions to either fall asleep or fall back to sleep to begin with though just make sure that you're comfortable that you're set up for going to sleep for the night or falling

back to sleep ideally lying on your back at least for the beginning of this exercise you can always move afterwards and as you lie there getting comfortable just taking a couple of big deep breaths breathing in through the nose out through the mouth as you breathe out each time feeling or at least imagining

the body letting go of any tension feeling the weight of the body sink down into the mattress the surface beneath you and if you haven't done already with the next out breath just gently closing the eyes

now if the mind is busy the body will often feel restless as well so just for the next minute i'd like you to gently place your hand on your stomach you don't have to breathe in any special way but just for 60 seconds we're just going to stay with the feeling of the breath