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Goal Setting Tips for New Year Resolutions
If you've ever had a yearly performance review for your job, you know it can be a tense experience that determines whether you receive a pay raise or not. Your boss will likely have a detailed checklist of your progress and success, as well as...
Rituals
Ritual What rituals do you have in your life? We all have them. Do you always add cream and sugar to your cup before you pour in the coffee? Do you never leave the house without making your bed? Do you have a cup of tea before retiring? Do you...
The Definition Of Perseverence
From a dictionary: "Persisting in or remaining constant to a purpose, idea or task in spite of obstacles." Notice it doesn't start, "Wisely persisting..." Perseverance can clearly be a both a good thing and a bad thing. Remember that when you find...
The History of Pilates – It All Began With One Sickly Child
A look into the history of Pilates helps you understand the tremendous power that this form of exercise has to help strengthen and transform your body. Unlike yoga, which has a tradition that goes back thousands of years, one individual developed...
Understanding the Yoga Sutras
In the West, there are many who practice Yoga for the physical benefits only. I'll never forget the first-time experience of teaching Yoga in a commercial health club setting.
After practicing asanas and pranayama, I mentioned that we would start...
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Is Your Insomnia Just a Bad Habit?
Copyright 2005 Wendy Owen
Many of us that suffer with insomnia can actually pinpoint the
time it started. It could be the death of a loved one, exams or
a stressful relationship. But ever since then we've not been
able to sleep well.
Even if the triggering event has passed and no longer concerns
us, our sleep continues to suffer. This means we've actually
learned to sleep badly and this is what we've come to expect. We
believe we're poor sleepers and therefore we will continue to
sleep poorly.
Our insomnia is actually just a bad habit!
Hey, that's actually good news! Habits can be broken and beliefs
can be changed with a bit of effort. Sometimes just realising
this can be enough to allow us to experience better sleep.
Usually though, it will take a bit more work. Habits can become
pretty firmly entrenched (as any smoker would attest to!) We've
got to change the belief that we don't sleep well into the
belief that we enjoy deep and restful sleep every night.
Affirmations work well. An affirmation is when we repeat
positive statements to ourselves over and over again until our
sub conscious mind accepts it and changes our bad habits into
good ones.
Many people poo pah affirmations saying, "I've tried them and
they don't work" Well they do work but you must keep them up.
Don't affirm for a few days and give up. Affirmations can take
weeks to have a beneficial effect.
Another reason affirmations may not work
is that we have trouble
believing them. Our rational mind agues all the time. For
instance if we affirm, "I sleep well for 8 hours every night",
we think to ourselves, "That's rubbish! I'm lucky if I get 4
hours a night!"
So make your affirmations believable. Try affirming, "I am
sleeping better and waking up more refreshed".
Another useful tip is to say your affirmations when you're
relaxed. This is when your sub conscious mind is most receptive
and will accept the suggestions more readily. Try it during a
relaxing meditation, last thing at night or when you've just
woken up.
A natural sleep aid is very useful during this time as you're
learning to sleep better. The site below will recommend safe and
natural sleep medications.
If you have the odd night when sleep refuses to come no matter
what, try to relax and accept this as part of being normal. Even
the best sleepers have nights like these. Just lie still and
remember that you will still get some benefit from just lying
back and relaxing.
So don't tell yourself you suffer from insomnia. Instil positive
affirmations into your mind and watch your sleep improve.
About the author:
Want to know how to cure insomnia and achieve healthy sleep?
Visit http://www.insomnia-connection.com/sleep-medications.html
To find natural, non habit forming sleep medications. Sign on
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