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Originally posted by Sandy:
...after the procedure on my neck next week...

Tongue twister? Neck twister? he he..

Hey, I thank YOU dear Sandy! YOU are a great friend. It is a joy to come in to these forums and hear how ya' be! and who nose, we might just all learn somefin!

I was thinking... I should have done THIS to help you sleep:



Oh, and I wanted to add something else about a sleep / meditation technique I used to use, just a tidbit I like to share:

When you are about to go to sleep, leave your arm up. When you finally drop off to sleep, the arm falls, you wake up, and usually you remember some "inner conversations" or things that you would normally forget - you are asleep! I know this is like the opposite of a sleep suggestion, but it sort of fits into the insomniac topic... ?

From what you said above I am more convinced that you have so many people and things that keep you sort of stressed, they "weigh heavy" on your mind and don't allow you to just "zone out." I'm not saying you should zone out, but I have learned over the years that to meditate, or sleep well, often you have to .. like create a force field around yourself, I used to say and visualize "rubber reflective aura" to create a sacred safe space where I am at peace.

I also like some of the other suggestions in this topic, great stuff!

Other than some type of detachment or "banishing ritual" to sacrify your space, hypnosis really might be helpful, and I'm a firm believer in affirmations, for example, if I had your issue, I might say to myself before sleep "Thank you God for a restful rejuvinating sleep." and keep that idea in mind when dozing off.

I recently learned the song Libestraum on piano, I think it means "Love Dream" or "Dream of Love," and basically, how do we know that life isn't a dream? The philosopher Bishop Berkeley wrote a lot about that question. People from the town of Berkeley don't even know that! THEY ARE ASLEEP TO WHAT BERKELEY MEANS! he he..

I guess I'm trying to talk you to sleep.. he he.. well, let us know how it goes eh?

Love and NIGHT-LIGHT beams, Teo

Hey hey!!!
I slept for 6 hours!! Not straight through, did wake up once, but went back to bed after 15 minutes!
I had a bowl of rice krispies with banana's before bed! Been eating banana's for the past few nights! But I believe it is all your prayers that helped! And the fact that I really tried to detach from everything and concentrate on myself, which is a hard thing to do for me! And of course asking the angels to assist me in a betters nights sleep! Maybe that's the key, eh Teo!! I think whenever I can't sleep, I'll come and reread all these wonderful posts for comfort! Thank you all!! YAHoo!! I slept!! Even with neck pain!
You all are my special angels!!
I do so need to concentrate on learning meditation and learn how to do the self hypnosis. Prayer I got, plus yours! Plus Teo's commands for me to sleep!
From my heart I thank you!
I love you all!

he he!!! I slept!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is great snooze!

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Originally posted by Sandy:

I had a bowl of rice krispies with banana's before bed! Been eating banana's for the past few nights! But I believe it is all your prayers that helped! And the fact that I really tried to detach from everything and concentrate on myself, which is a hard thing to do for me! And of course asking the angels to assist me in a betters nights sleep! Maybe that's the key, eh Teo!!

see, there is good reason for blabology

It's probably all of the above, and having friends remind you how it is OK to detach and not worry about people and things, we feel guilty when we do that don't we!

But if we don't detach enough, hide and forget worries for a while so that we can RECHARGE our love batteries, we really can't help them anyway! No one wants a worn out decrepid person worrying about them... so go get your "beauty sleep," you suuuuuuuuuure deserve it sweet one!

I am sooooo glad that this post has, at least for NOW, a happy ending! Yay! YOU HAVE OBEYED WELL.

Love and nightlight beings, Teo

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Teo:
This is great snooze!

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YOU HAVE OBEYED WELL.

OH PLEASE DON'T TELL MY HUSBAND!! IF HE HEARS I OBEYED, HE'LL WANT ME TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME!!

You have obeyed well??? Teo, you really do make me smile....

Sandy, I'm glad you're getting some sleep.

Love,
Sleepless Lynette

Ahhh Sleepless Lynette,

Guess I didn't want you to be alone going without sleep! At least one night of sleep was good!! Guess I still have some work to do on detaching!

Hi Sandy,
I was just sort of browsing through this and I can say that sleep or the lack of it affects us all for various reasons. I send my prayers that you are soon sleeping like a baby. I have had problems with sleep over the past week.. but it comes from worrying about my Mom and Dad... see my post in the family section for more on that... anyway, sending love and prayers and Sleep Angels to you too!

You are all soooo funny
Just reading some of your replies makes me count the sheep

Sweet dreams everyone

Let's have a group sleep party!! We'll meet early in the morning, yak all day and then late at night, we can all hold hands and teach each other to meditate and self hypnotise!! Wouldn't that be fun!!! Heck, even if we didn't get any sleep, it sure would be uplifting to spend time with all of you! Teo would probably keep us all up laughing anyway!!

Hi Sandy

The pups
are SOOOO cute

You are right, let's have a party and swing through the night

And for dessert we will have bananas and cream