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Insomnia Meditation
by Pragito Dove
If you suffer from insomnia, I know of no better cure than meditation. Insomnia is usually caused by an overactive mind. The mind accumulates noise throughout the day and when you want to go to sleep it continues; it's become a habit. It does not know how to turn off. It's as if the switch isn't working. Getting to sleep, then, is a matter of finding a way to release this energy and then, emptied out, you will easily fall asleep. Through the following meditation, you create a situation in which that can happen easily.
Sit in your bed, turn the lights off and start talking in gibberish. Do this for five, ten minutes or as long as you wish. Allow any sounds that come. Don't worry about meaning, language, grammar. In fact, the more meaningless your sounds, the more helpful they are. You are simply throwing out the rubbish that the mind collects during the day.
Just start and go. But be very passionate about it, as if your whole life depended on it. Be in a passionate dialogue with yourself. Put your whole energy into it. Do this for thirty minutes and chances are you will have a good night's sleep, if not the first night then in the nights to come.
The gibberish works so well because there's no judgment involved. You can't start analyzing or feeling guilty about what you're saying, or moralizing that you're saying bad things. When you speak in sounds you don't know what you are saying. Your gestures, your passion are doing the work.
Try this for at least 7 days. The mind will become accustomed to the release, the unburdening of all this mental stress and will welcome it. Afterwards you will enjoy a good, natural sleep.(Information on Gibberish meditation CD here).
Remember, insomnia is a symptom of a greater stress in your life. If you have been in the habit of taking sleeping pills, you are only treating the symptom and not the underlying stress. Here are some other suggestions for dealing with insomnia:
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