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If you\u2019ve ever been very stressed, then you\u2019ll know that this can make it very difficult to get to sleep. Common when we\u2019re stressed is to lie awake listening to our hearts thudding in our chest and getting even <\/span>more <\/span><\/i>stressed that we\u2019re not able to drift off and thus re-energize for the days ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n This is what makes the situation so bad: we <\/span>know <\/span><\/i>that the less we sleep, the <\/span>worse <\/span><\/i>the stress is going to seem tomorrow. Ironically, we\u2019ll experience more of the very same stress that is keeping us awake!<\/span><\/p>\n So what can you do to overcome that stress and just drift off?<\/span><\/p>\n The key thing to remember here is that you can\u2019t \u2018force\u2019 yourself to overcome stress and you can\u2019t \u2018force\u2019 yourself to relax. The whole idea of forcing yourself to relax is actually contradictory.<\/span><\/p>\n This is where many people fall down: in trying to make ourselves fall asleep we will often start tossing and turning and even getting frustrated and angry that we aren\u2019t sleeping. This only increases our stress more, increases our heartrate more and continues the vicious cycle. If you have ever looked at your alarm clock at 4am in the morning and felt like you\u2019re the only person awake, then you\u2019ll know this well.<\/span><\/p>\n So how do you break this cycle? The solution is to stop forcing yourself to sleep and to instead just let it happen naturally. Specifically, this means you should remove the pressure of \u2018having\u2019 to fall to sleep. In fact, remove the objective completely.<\/span><\/p>\n So when you go to bed, you\u2019re not going to bed in <\/span>order <\/span><\/i>to sleep any more. Instead, recognize that simply relaxing and resting can actually be very good for you too and allow yourself to do this. Focus on how nice it is to just lie back and not need to do anything and remember that even if you only do that, you\u2019ll still be relaxing and rejuvenating to some degree.<\/span><\/p>\n The irony is that as soon as you start <\/span>enjoying <\/span><\/i>being in bed and as soon as you take away the \u2018need\u2019 to fall asleep, you will almost always drift off right away. And not only will this improve your ability to <\/span>get <\/span><\/i>to sleep but it will also enhance your quality of sleep as you\u2019ll be much more restful.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to Get to Sleep When You\u2019re Very Stressed If you\u2019ve ever been very stressed, then you\u2019ll know that this can make it very difficult to get to sleep. Common when we\u2019re stressed is to lie awake listening to our hearts thudding in our chest and getting even more stressed that we\u2019re not able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":236686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[18,19,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martin-daubney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Right Frame of Mind<\/b><\/h2>\n