It doesn't always help, but when the carousel of worry has my mind running too fast to sleep, I focus on my breathing and chant a mantra in rhythm with it. a 7 count phrase seems to work for me.
On a more practical note, if I really can't sleep, Benadryl is a decent otc sleep aid (assuming you don't have chronic allergies and have become habituated to it of course)
For day-time/evening worrying -- I took up spinning as a hobby a couple of years back, and found that the act of spinning is extremely zen, and thus calming, for me. I would suggest thinking about which of your hobbies works in that fashion for you. (And spinning is actually a pretty inexpensive hobby if you go with a spindle)
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Date: 2008-11-26 06:10 pm (UTC)On a more practical note, if I really can't sleep, Benadryl is a decent otc sleep aid (assuming you don't have chronic allergies and have become habituated to it of course)
For day-time/evening worrying -- I took up spinning as a hobby a couple of years back, and found that the act of spinning is extremely zen, and thus calming, for me. I would suggest thinking about which of your hobbies works in that fashion for you. (And spinning is actually a pretty inexpensive hobby if you go with a spindle)