I try every day to not let “the chatter in my mind” become the internal voice that controls me. Experience has taught me if I am to have peace of mind and a good night’s sleep, I have to calm the voice inside my head.

Many of us have difficulty getting a good night’s rest and this plays a crucial role in our health and well-being. More often than not, we lose sleep because our minds are preoccupied with going over the day’s events or planning for future ones.

You may even be trying to sleep every night with feelings of fear for the future or other painful feelings. These feelings may be so deep rooted that you may not even be fully aware of them.

In this simple article it’s not possible to deal with some of these deeper issues, however, the following technique we use regularly at Olive Branch has helped many of our students and clients.

Believe it, it works!

If you are thinking negative thoughts and feeling uncomfortable emotions or worries in the last few minutes before you go to sleep, your subconscious mind takes that in at a very deep level, and even if you do manage to fall asleep you are likely to wake up in the middle of the night unable to go back to sleep.

When you are in bed trying to go to sleep, take your mind away from your worrying by using the following visualisation technique to enable you to feel happy and relaxed.

Start by taking five deep relaxing breaths. Then, begin to recall as much as possible of what has happened during your day, going over everything in as much detail as you can remember, but only what you consider as positive things.

Example – You may have meet up with a friend for coffee and enjoyed a chat. Go over this in your mind in every detail all over again.

After you have recalled all the positive things during your day start to remember the less pleasant, more negative aspects, but change them into a positive memory.

Example – It’s been raining all day and every person you met moaned about the weather. Imagine this in detail again, but see yourself saying, yes it’s raining, I love how everything smells so fresh after the rain, or yes isn’t it great, it’s doing my garden a power of good.

You might imagine their faces as you reply to them in this cheery way.

If you have gone through your whole day and are still awake, try thinking about the next day and all the things that you know are to come in a positive way.

This simple technique trains your subconscious mind to become calmer, happier and helps you see the glass as half full, not half empty, as the saying goes. Do this every night before you go to sleep, empty your mind and body of negative tensions and fill it with positive thoughts and good feelings.

Use this technique regularly and you will begin to see the benefits in a very short space of time.

REMEMBER THE SUBCONCIOUS MIND BELIEVES WHAT YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND HABITUALLY TELLS IT.

You can actually think yourself into a situation, you can think yourself into not sleeping and you can think yourself into being ill. Conditions are created far more by thoughts than conditions create thoughts.

Think positive thoughts and you create an atmosphere around you that develops positive outcomes, however think negative thoughts all the time and this is the outcome that is created.

Good Luck and Sweet Dreams from
www.olivebranchretreats.com

When you experience these daily chronic lifestyle stresses, you can be effected in many adverse way’s..

They can affect your thinking, concentration and even your behavior as well as your emotional and physical health.

Often stress builds up so slowly, over many years, you are unaware of the reason for problems such as

• Anxiety
• Fear
• Emotional Eating and Weight Gain
• Feeling Overwhelmed and exhausted
• Cognitive Impairment
• Loss of sleep
• Head aches
• Indigestion
• Skin problems
• Heart Disease
• Blood Pressure and Stroke etc,.

Learning about the role that stress plays in your life, can help you to create a healthier and happier you.

We can offer you on going personal coaching via email after your stay with us here at Olive Branch Retreats.

Linda