I gave the counting insomnia exercise to my daughter, the
one where you count 1 2 3 4 and take a breath and then count 5 6 7 8 and repeat until you fall asleep. She said
it wouldn’t work for her.
“Of course it will work,” I said. “And the more you do the
exercise the stronger the neural pattern becomes and it soon attaches, by
learned association, to the natural going-to-sleep pattern and it takes less
and less time to fall asleep.”
“No, Mom. You don’t understand. Just the thought of numbers
makes me anxious because I start the day with a list of all the things I have
to do. So just the thought of numbers makes me think of how behind I am in
getting things done.”
“Okay, then,” I said.
“Say A
B C D and
then E
F G H
instead.”
She said that worked.
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