Has this ever happened to you – you crawl into bed, tired, exhausted and DETERMINED to fall asleep quickly, only to find yourself tossing and turning an hour later?
Or maybe this scenario – you fall asleep quickly, but find yourself waking up at around 3 or 4am, and unable to fall back to sleep?
Frustrating, isn’t it??
This often happens when we are under stress. Too many thoughts swirling in our brain and no way to process them! Overwhelmed, we will ourselves to break the pattern, but those old thoughts just keep swirling and swirling, round and round. The fatigue builds, the stress expands, and all we want to do is GET TO SLEEP!
How to Break the Habit?
The secret key to falling asleep easily, or falling back to sleep, is to stop trying! You see, the harder you “try” to fall asleep, the more it evades you. The key to getting a good night’s sleep actually lies in not “trying”, but “allowing” your body and mind to be quiet, peaceful and at ease.
Quick Tip to Getting a Good Night Sleep
Here is an exercise from my TranformationZ 30-day Stress Reduction Program. Try it for a few nights and notice your sleep become deep and restful. Do this exercise right before bed.
Creating a Shield of Light
- Take a few deep breaths
- Ask that all that you do or experience be for the highest and most loving good
- Visualize a stream of light coming from above your head and flowing over your body
- You can imagine this light in any color
- Allow the light to flow in, through and around you
- Ask that the light protect you from anything that is not for your highest and most loving good and that it help you to be open to your intuition and higher self
- Let a deep calm spread over you – snuggle up, and close your eyes.
Good night, Sleep tight!
Eating large amounts of protein is really in now – from body builders downing protein shakes to moms on the go grabbing protein bars as they shuttle their kids between activities. What’s the buzz about?
You know the feeling -– when everything seems to be “off”, you are not on your game, and quite frankly, you feel lousy. 
Dieting….it may seem that we are always “on” a diet, or “off” a diet. We have our “good” days…and our “bad” days. Maybe we’ll start tomorrow, or even better, start on Monday. Sound all too familiar?
Stress….Unfortunately, a word built in not just to our vocabulary but in our everyday lives. From the harried mom overwhelmed in doing too many tasks in too few hours to the business executive struggling to survive in difficult economic times, we all seem to be living with stress. 
They say…”music soothes the savage beast”. For me, music moves me unlike any other art. It stirs emotion in a very healing way.
I saw a fascinating exhibit at a museum this week. The topic was “Creating Rituals”, and people were invited to post on a bulletin board the many rituals involved in their lives. 
Gratitude has been in the press quite a bit over the last year or so. “Gratitude is an attitude” and other such expressions seem to make it into our everyday sayings…well, not quite everyday, but more often than ever before.
Not feeling “deserving” is one of the most pervasive self-limiting beliefs in our subconscious mind. We are frequently unaware of this feeling though. 