Looking for a good night’s sleep? Here is what you can do.

Robin read an email that night. He realized that his boss had not sanctioned the three days’ leave he had applied for. He was upset. He shut down his laptop, kept it back in the bag, and went to bed. He went to bed at his normal time at 11 pm and laid down in his bed at his usual time at 11 pm, but until 2:30 am, he kept on thinking that he must leave this company very soon. Today, he got yet another reason that indicated that he needs to look for another job, and this will be beneficial for him. He had immersed in this thought from11 pm to 2:30 am and couldn’t complete his sleep as he slept only from 2:30 am till 6 am. As he had to start his day at 6 am, he got up, but his productivity was low as he had not completed his sleep.

This happens quite often with Robin. For example, when Robin reads advertisements such as advertisements for solutions for the increasing number of white hair, he keeps on wondering about the solutions through the night, whether he should buy them, whether they will be effective, etc. He goes to bed every day at 10:30 pm and lies down too at 10:30 pm, but he keeps thinking about these advertisements. These thoughts that start after reading such articles keep him awake until 2:00 am, 2:30 am, or 3:00 am.

This sleeping time that we, like Robin, use for our thinking, we should stop using it for thinking because the amount of good sleep we get decides our productivity for the next day! Do you agree with me? If yes, then I would like to share a technique with you all which will help you in improving your sleep quality.

This technique is very simple. Whenever you go to bed, sit on your bed, just sit with yourself only for a minute. Be actionless and sit for a minute. The last thing in the night before you go to sleep, don’t do anything else, just sit. If someone sees you, they should feel you have forgotten something and are trying to remember it, and you should sit actionless to that extent. Your body language should portray that you are not doing anything. The next step is to tell yourself, in the same manner as I am saying here, ‘whatever I was thinking about now, I am stopping those thoughts and going to sleep now. I will resume thinking about it tomorrow morning when I get up. But now I am going to sleep.’

You will observe that after telling your mind about this, it has started supporting you in your sleep today, tomorrow, and the day after with a better development ratio each time. When your mind knows that the next day you do think about the same topic that you had promised your mind, it finds it easier to support you in sleep. It, too, knows the importance of sleep. The third step that you have to take is actually to think about the topic that you had stopped thinking about the last night. This way, your mind will know that you always tell the truth, and it will start supporting you in your sleep.

The character of Robin mentioned in this blog is a fictitious character to put an example in front of you. Every day, before going to sleep, tell yourself that you will stop thinking now about the thoughts in your mind and resume them the next morning. This will help you to shift to sleep mode. Do use this technique!