I just wanted to post a quick addendum to my previous blog about sleep. Maybe it’s the bad feng shui in my bedroom, but lately I’ve had a hard time dozing off. I find that when there are unresolved problems; be they social, financial, or otherwise, my brain won’t let me sleep until the world is fixed. So I’ve been experiencing this unusual but extreme insomnia the last few weeks, which is attributed to my mind’s inability to cap it under stress.
Thanks to a recent conversation with well trained and super friendly Naturopath Dr Ryan Partovi of San Diego (also a Blood Type Diet practitioner), I came out with some tips and a surprisingly simple solution. He suggested I try putting on relaxing music or a meditation CD while trying to sleep. Since I broke my iPod early this year in a bike accident, I had to drag my laptop over to my bed & extend the headphone reach to my pillow. I actually happen to have a guided meditation track, and so I gave it a go. Hours of turning and restlessness while trying to resolve a sabotage of life challenges turned into blissful slumber, after which I arose in the a.m. feeling fantastic.
Another thing that helped was realizing my insulin was too high before going to bed, and without any kind of healthy food churning around, I was playing hormonal Badminton. But I’ll save that for another topic.
So thank you, Dr Partovi, for your wisdom and support. Hopefully this will be a useful trick for anyone else who has a broken brain mute button.