Tonight's Read-in-Bed Sleep Solutions
from “Why Count Sheep When You Can SLEEP?”(www.rosestreetpress.com)
Try 'em! Real tips from real people that really work:
• Pretend you’re floating, like the lone white feather in the opening scene of “Forrest Gump.” Softly tumble to the ground, swirling and flying as long as you can before hitting the sidewalk. Repeat this over and over.
• Imagine the Empire State Building in hot pink, then turquoise or deep purple. Keep changing the colors at random.
• Recite the Fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc., as far as you can go. (Each number is the sum of the previous two, e.g., 1+1=2; 2+1=3; 3+2=5; 5+3=8; 8+5=13, etc.)
About Me
- Tracy Ecclesine Ivie
- After 28 years of being married to the snorer from hell, I decided to write a book to help people get back to sleep in the middle of the night (something I know a lot about).
"Why Count Sheep When You Can SLEEP?" is filled with real tips from real people that really work. It's designed to be read in bed when you're desperately tossing and turning, no matter what time of night.
****Special section, "The Boring Book." Now you don't have to get out of bed to find one...monotonous, run-on sentences to turn anyone's mind into jelly.
Read it and sleep.
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(My background: I've been a newspaper and magazine editor/writer for more than 20 years and am co-author in the book series, "Country Inns of America," published by Architectural Digest.)
i have two tricks that always work if i stick to them. i do ashtanga yoga and if i imagine myself doing the sequence of the primary series, i always fall asleep before i'm half-way through. obviously, this one only works if you know ashtanga yoga.. but if you can imagine doing any set sequence of things, maybe that will work too.
ReplyDeletethe second is imagining each thought as if its being typed. many of us use computers and know the keyboard fairly well. i keep my eyes closed and every thought i think i have to move my eyes around the mental keyboard to spell out the words. this knocks me out EVERY TIME.
Cool. Thanks for sharing. I love the keyboard idea.
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