There is an inner dialogue going on inside you all the time. When it’s about preoccupations of the day, this can keep you awake at night. This is a mind trap. Applying mental mastery tools can help you let go of the thinking pattern and fall asleep.

Your inner dialogue keeps you from going to be when you intend to. It keeps you up fretting about what happened the day before. It wakes you up too early as you worry about what might happen tomorrow. The inner dialogue is a mind trap – but it can be avoided.

Much of what we do is mindless. We don’t know why we do what we do. Many compulsions function that way and can turn into “everyday addictions”. There is a secret to avoiding this and putting yourself into a state of choice.

There is a high correlation between perfectionism and chronic insomnia. That’s because of the thinking style of perfectionism; these are high personal standards and concern over making mistakes. What lies under this thinking style points to the secret for perfectionists to get better sleep.

It is refusing to "know what we know" that keeps us stuck in fear. We may try to avoid this part of us, but it is in touch with a reality greater than our own selves and our pedestrian preferences. Fear lives in the darkness where we refuse to go.

These fears can follow us into the night and keep us awake.