你ready for bed when you start thinking about something disturbing.
You turn out the lights and get comfy, but yourbrain won’t shut off.
What’s it working on this time?
- A nightmarish scenario (maybe from the news or a movie you watched)
- Negative thoughts about something from your recent (or not so recent) past
- A problem you have to solve
- A situation you’re hoping to avoid in the near future
- A conversation you have to have (but are dreading)
From one thought to the next, your brain jumps, and as you change position in your bed and try to tell yourself, “Shut up and go to sleep!” your brain scoffs — actually scoffs — at you and keeps running those in-house movies.
You can’t stop thinking.
You need a good night’s sleep, but your brain has declared mutiny and won’t shut down for the night.
So, what do you do?
You want to learn how tostop thinking about somethingwhen you need to get some rest.
But your brain must have its own internal coffee house, because it’s wide-awake, and it’s just going to keep thinking about one thing after another forever.
Fortunately, there is a way to calm your brain down and banish those distracting thoughts so you can finally get some sleep.