How to deal with insomnia?
How to overcome it?
What is acceptance and commitment therapy?
Maria Korneeva
It becomes a conditioned response.
Do a body scan and notice where your skin makes contact with the bed.
It also helps you to move away from the narrative of I need to get to sleep.
Thoughts and feelings are just bits of noise passing through.
Instead of trying to change, reduce, or avoid them, we witness them.
That helps you understand that its just your mind, which is hardwired to worry, and its okay.
The metaphor we often use is holding a beach ball underwater, says Dr Meadows.
The struggle to keep them under control is literally whats keeping them awake.
What if they learn to allow the ball to sit on the surface?
That takes courage and skill, but its what we teach them.
Youre resting your body, and thats good enough right now.
This helps remove the battle element of going to sleep.
