Who Are You When You Become a Great Sleeper?
In your heart, you don't really want to overcome insomnia.
You may feel turned off by the notion of becoming someone different — rather than a bad-ass poor sleeper late night rebel type, you might become a goodie two-shoes doing what everyone else is doing. Fitting into the mold.
What would that be like?
Let’s picture her, the perfect sleeper. She goes to bed at 10:00 every night and wakes up at 6:00 a.m., bouncing out of bed without an alarm, full of vim and vigour.
She immediately gets some exercise and then sits down to a breakfast of fresh fruit and yogurt. She doesn't even drink coffee.
Before she goes to bed, she winds down with a meditation practice, perhaps dabbing essential oil on a candle to soothe her senses.
This, you think, is not you.
You don't even want to be that person.
Thinking about her makes you feel downright annoyed.
When we compare our imperfect lives with an impossible ideal, we feel discouraged.
We think, “Why even bother?”
This is all or nothing thinking.
You think, “I can be me with all my dissatisfactions and imperfections and struggles … OR I have to try to get to an ideal that isn't attainable.”
Many clients I see hold this view to some degree. They are often surprised to learn that what is most important is what you actually will do and can do to get great sleep — not what the image of a cookie-cutter perfect sleeper might do.
Getting great sleep doesn't mean being someone else or living an ideal life.
It just means making some adjustments to allow your body to get the rest it craves.
Free yourself from what is keeping you awake at night