Do you fall asleep immediately after entering bed or do thoughts and worries begin to flow into your mind, keeping your sleep away? Do you find it hard to stop them?When you are in bed at night there are fewer outside distractions, it is quiet and dark, and therefore you are more aware of
movements of your mind. You feel that thoughts are attacking you, not giving you a moment's rest, especially if you are experiencing some problems in your life.
If you are not healthy you will probably think about your health. If you have problems at work, then thoughts about these problems will probably flood your mind. A child will have thoughts about his parents, teachers or examinations, and a businessman about his work. Thoughts, worries and fears that are usually repressed during
day surface up and swarm
mind.
What would be willing to do to free yourself from these nibbling, restless thoughts that deny your sleep? Won't you be happy to be able to silence all
thoughts that pop up when you are in bed?
If you fight these thoughts and try to stop them forcefully they will grow stronger, because you will be giving them more attention. If you want to get rid of a tree growing in your garden and cut it down, it will grow again quite fast, but if you stop watering it, it will gradually wither. You need to treat your thoughts in
same manner. In order to calm them down you have to ignore them, which is equivalent to not watering
tree.
How to ignore these nagging thoughts that escort you to bed? Here are a few tips that might help you:
1. Go to bed at a reasonable hour, not too early and not too late.