Ok, you’re tired, you’re in your bed, you lie this way and that way, and you know you’re tired, so why won’t sleep come? It’s a feeling many of us know, including myself unfortunately.

How many times have we lain there, eyes closed, willing sleep to come when we realise there is light coming into the room? The sunrise heralds the arrival of a new day, and another night is over, one in which we haven’t had the luxury of any sleep at all to recharge our batteries.

Is there anything else we can try to stop these long, sleepless nights? We’ve already tried every remedy going, surely there’s something out there that can help us?

I try not to take any kind of drug to get me to sleep, but if you are finding that your sleeplessness is lasting for a few nights in a row and you are dead on your feet, try something like Simply Sleep. This product has good reviews and really seems to help to bring on the sleep that refuses to come naturally.

Try taking a book up to bed to read, this always makes me feel sleepy and before long I can’t focus on the words anymore and my eyelids feel as if they have weights attached to them.

Do you have a book that just looks so monotonous that you’ve been putting off reading it? That’s the one to take to bed with you. Pages of writing that are each as dull as the last should soon have you in peaceful slumber, unless of course, once you start you find it very interesting!

The main point of this exercise is distraction. As you are focusing fully on your book, you aren’t thinking about sleep. This takes me nicely to my last method.

Once you’re in bed and snuggled into your sleep position, don’t try to empty your mind. If you do, the fact that you can’t get to sleep will flood your mind and the anxiety circle begins again. Focus on something completely random, thinking of anything except sleep is the one thing that induces it. Imagine yourself somewhere different, or think of pleasant memories, before you know it it’s morning, and this strange but true method has worked brilliantly.

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