SLIDE TO SLUMBERLAND (Some ways you may try…)
1. Lie comfortably and perfectly still. Or almost-perfectly still. Mentally count your exhales. If you lose count, start again. Many who do this fall asleep without reaching 100. Short dreams sneak in and make them lose count, forcing them to repeat. Next cycle, they would lose count even earlier.
2. Enjoy the moment. Enjoy your bed, pillow and blanket, enjoy the breezes or cool air, enjoy the mellow music or silence that enables you to hear cricket, frog and bird sounds. If there are fragrant smells around, enjoy them, too. Linger on your enjoyments, and you’ll soon fall asleep with a smile.
3. Enjoy the darkness that gives rest to your tired eyes. If you can, project pictures of Nature upon that dark “screen.” Imagine yourself as a polar bear curled up in deep slumber in a dark cave at night, a six-month night!
4.Think happy thoughts, especially about the preceding day, recent days, or earlier days. Such thoughts may not necessarily enable you to fly like Peter Pan, but who knows? The moment you fall happily asleep you can fly, you can do just that in the happy dream, which can allow you to refuse to grow up. You can make wishful dreams about the future, but resist the temptation of making plans because doing that would wake up your mind. Think positive thoughts about yourself, in amusement or in pride, and think positive thoughts about other people, especially friends who have been really nice to you. If tearful and fearful problems come in and disrupt the happy thoughts, remind yourself of earlier problems you had earlier cried over but later on smiled at in amusement or even laughed about afterwards.
5. Reading at night can make your eyes more tired and signal the entire body to feel sleepy. It works for many people. However, reading horror stories, suspense thrillers or materials that are mentally too stimulating may not be the best bedtime reading fare for immediately sliding to sleep.
6. For some, boredom works. You can bore yourself to sleep, for example by listening on the phone to a boring person talk about his boring life. But try not to fall asleep before he himself does! You may also listen to taped introductions in the speeches of some politicians who start with long roll-calls of people present, or anything that bores you to death in the daytime.
7. But if you want to pre-tape anything at all, record sounds of waves breaking at the beach, using an entire side of a cassette tape just on this repeating sound or both sides if you can play it in auto-reverse mode. Keep it on while you’re asleep but keep it low. It’s a good massage on the subconscious.
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