Insomnia

Just wanted to share a little trick I use when I can't sleep or when I wake up in the middle of the night wide awake and can't go back to sleep and lots of thoughts going through my mind. I try to think of some short words that don't really carry a lot of emotion with them like snow, cold, fire, and then you take each word and you spell, you take each letter in that word and think of another word. So like with snow you would start with s and think of words that begin with s and think of two or three and then move on to the n and then to the o and then to the w and then move on to the second word and then to the third word and generally it resets my mind so I'm not just fixating on something and thinking over and over again and it helps me relax and go to sleep.

Something that I found to be incredibly helpful when it comes to falling asleep faster is using noise cancelling earbuds because they not only cancel out the noise but they allow you to be distraction free. My mind always wanders and if I don't take, especially if I don't take my medication, then it takes me hours to fall asleep but noise cancelling earbuds do help tremendously actually.