
20/07/2025
If your brain catastrophises about whether you will get to sleep, you have sleep anxiety.
A great way to fight it is to find a mantra to repeat back to the catastrophising thoughts (rather than entering into a dialogue with the anxious thoughts where you torture yourself with worst case scenarios).
The problem is that the more you tell yourself that you “must” get to sleep, that you “won’t cope” if you don’t get sleep, the more pressure you feel, the more anxious you feel, and the more your brain resists sleep.
Take the pressure off by repeatedly saying one of these mantras to yourself before bed and, once you are in bed, focus only on the mantra and how good it feels to be resting that body in your cosy bed. This way, you’ll reset how your brain thinks about sleep.
You can also train your brain to feel less anxious about sleep. I’ve created a FREE mini download so you can try it out.
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