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Trouble sleeping, counting sheep

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Hi everyone, sometimes I have trouble getting off to sleep when I start thinking about things. I've been using a slight alternative to sheep πŸ‘ counting, here goes. Firstly think of a topic, birds, plants, towns and villages, etc, then start with the letter A, go through the alphabet eg football teams, Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea and so on. As your clearing your mind of day to day things if you get stuck on one letter before you've found it your asleep 😁 it usually works for me, hope this helps.

Best wishes sarah

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Lolabridge

Good idea, thanks!I couldn’t do the alphabet of football teams but I will try tonight with bands/groups.

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Plumcrumble in reply to Lolabridge

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Pinkypie2018

Great idea I'm struggling to sleep at night so will try this tonight!

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AnneField

I do this too - I call it the Alphabet game- and it really does work a treat!

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Plumcrumble in reply to AnneField

That great, it certainly works πŸ‘πŸ’•

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vonniesims

Audio books do it for me

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Plumcrumble in reply to vonniesims

Yes, it's all to do with clearing your mind πŸ‘πŸ’•

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stbernhard

Anything to get the mind to focus just on one thing is good. I count in foreign languages, do mental arithmetic or just repeat "empty head - empty head" on every in and out breath. It works more often than not. Isn't it great that we're all doing the same thing in so many different ways?

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Plumcrumble in reply to stbernhard

That's great πŸ‘

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Soreknees2016

Good idea - a friend told me to try doing it with places I’d visited, and it definitely helped! Will try other topics now - never thought of doing that! πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

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Plumcrumble in reply to Soreknees2016

That's a good one, I'll try that next, as I do get stuck on the same one πŸ˜πŸ’•

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JFlay

If I can't sleep I mentally refurbish my house/add an extension etc. πŸ˜‚ or I picture what my perfect property would be like, all the rooms etc. it usually works for me. Shame I can't afford it for real though πŸ˜‚

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Plumcrumble in reply to JFlay

That's sounds great, maybe one day you will πŸ˜πŸ‘πŸ’•

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