SHAPING YOUR SLEEP ATTITUDE
"WHAT IF…" worrying directly pressures your mind to stay awake to stave off harm, and keep the other shoe from dropping. Inspirational soul-liners abound in "A Time to Sleep". Freely use any of these healthy mental sleep sedatives—or new sleep attitudes—the next time you feel tortured by a lack of sleep:
- Sleeping well is a skill.
- We need peace to sleep.
- Treat your body with love and respect. Take it out for a walk once in awhile.
- The idea is to fill your mind so completely with peace that anxiety has no room to roost.
- Begin to focus immediately on your peaceful thoughts when you come into the room where you sleep.
- When you cannot sleep, it is an indication that worry is in control.
- Be sympathetic to yourself at this time. It will not help to try to force yourself to sleep.
- Do you find you like yourself when you sleep well and hate yourself when you sleep poorly?
- "I must stay alert so nothing bad happens!" and "Not sleeping is a sign of how much I care!" are sleep-deprivers.
- Losing too much sleep can make a person feel dead.
- Do you believe that if you just spend enough sleepless nights analyzing problems in your head, solutions will miraculously appear?
- You are improving your sleep attitude every night.
- Try substituting a devotion for a potion.
- Stop wishing it away (sleeplessness) for one night.
- Are you carrying an old attitude into a new environment?
- Some people feel guilty for taking a nap…I'm talking about maxi-shame for a mini-siesta.
- It's not your fault you cannot sleep.
- Praise is tying the balloon after you blow it up. It completes the process. Otherwise your work can come undone.
- Also, ask yourself if you are starting to get caught up in the thought that the faster you go, the more you get done. This is not always true.
- A tough time is a time that is tough for you.
- You really can't work any faster than one night at a time, so relax and enjoy this night at this time!
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