If you cannot sleep, try these: * Lie on your back with your knees propped up on a small pillow
* Sleep with your head pointing in the direction North
* Get up the same time every morning and go to bed at the same time
Practice every night for a week:
• Visualize yourself in a peaceful place, such as a field full of wildflowers with a gentle breeze blowing, or near a
gently flowing stream where you can see fish swimming past you.
• Visualize a boring scenario, such as a lecture you have no interest in
• Read out loud the names and numbers from the phone book
• Reserve your bedroom and the bed as a place for sleep only
• Wiggle your toes gently until you fall asleep
• Rub your stomach lightly
• Cut up a mild onion, place in a jar by the bed and sniff before retiring.
• Think of ten wonderful things that have happened to you today
• Squeeze all your muscles together tightly for a few
minutes and then relax.
• Threaten yourself that “If I am not asleep within the next 10 minutes, I will get up and…” clean the oven, or clean the fridge….whatever you really hate doing… When your brain knows you really mean it - this will scare you to sleep to avoid a nasty chore!