Fall/Return to SLEEP   

1. Determine how and on what YOUR mind/brain likes to FOCUS 

• Practice Focus first, to interrupt, when your mind is racing

2. THEN - bring in Mindfulness practice and 

• let the thoughts come and float on or drift away from you

• imagery matters here - you have to feel them release and let go - try using your breath if you struggle to visualize

• Note: when clinging to a thought or feeling, imagine a balloon floating on a string in your hand. Slowly open your fingers and hand and let the string slip through your fingers and away.

3. Try Quiet Mind practices. 

• Use Connecting with AWE:

  • • NeuroMeditation

    • Brain Exercise

• Vastness/expansive vista, or spaciousness/space. 

• Try Quiet the Mind for Sleep:

  • • NeuroMeditation

    • Brain Exercise

4. Focus on your contact with the bed and the feeling of SUSPENSION as though you are floating on water or being held by a hammock or net. The feeling is in the spine and the solar plexus. Also notice your jaw and tongue.