Why Sleep Apps Won't Help You
With barely a moment’s thought, it seems so obvious and self-evident, that achieving a calm state of mind is a necessary pre-requisite for sleep to occur. That’s why the marketplace continues to be deluged with Apps, books, web sites and courses that hold the promise of helping you achieve that necessary state of mind. Considering Apps alone, the number that are available seems almost endless. You can (hopefully) drift off to sounds of the crashing sea, the gentle lapping of waves on a silvery boat ...
Sleep Hygiene
One of the most important sleep hygiene practices is to spend an appropriate amount of time asleep in bed, not too little or too excessive. Sleep needs vary across ages and are especially impacted by lifestyle and health. However, there are recommendations that can provide guidance on how much sleep you need generally.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps patients understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors. CBT is commonly used to treat a wide range of disorders, including phobias, addictions, depression, and anxiety.
Being Aware Of Going To Sleep
One of the challenges of 'going to sleep' is to achieve a conscious state that makes sleep inevitable, while at the same time avoiding having awareness of it happening.
My BLIS™ technique turns taking sleep into an active process. A simple active process that takes attention way from drifting off, while at the same time making it inevitable. It’s a bit like the observation that Woody Allen made about dying. He said he didn’t mind it happening as long as he wasn’t there at the time.
Think of the problem this way: if we did have an infallible sleep switch available to us, would we use it?
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