Insomnia is a disease. Treat it with care. Here are some steps to have a sound sleep.
Hard factors (the physical ones,external)
1. Avoid taking medicines. This is a lazy way of curing, sadly it doesn't cure, this makes you dependent on the drug.
2. Have a glass of warm water before going to bed.
3. Take foot bath for 15 minutes and then go to bed.
4. Comb your hair (the skull part) for 5 minutes.
5. Smile, then slowly laugh allowing your belly to move; you should feel the tremor.
6. If possible, try gibberish for five minutes every day.
7. Breathe in (10 counts), hold your breath (10 counts), breathe out (10 counts); this is one round, try seven of such rounds.This is called kumbhak pranayama
8. Diet plays an important role in helping an insomniac get good sleep. What you should have is a balanced diet. But how and when you should eat is of extreme importance. Supper should be light.
What
A balanced diet: with balanced diet, one can see almost an immediate effect resulting in good and sound sleep.
How
How you should eat is of primordial importance. You shouldn't gulp, gobble, and gorge, never eat on the move, never. You should always chew your food, eat as slowly as possible. It should be unhurried. Remember, fasting also helps. But for this, consult your doctor.
When
There should be a gap of 2 to 3 hours between your supper and going to bed. Ideally, if you could go for a light walk after supper, that would be great.
Soft factors (the ones that are internal)
1. Check your anger, see it coming, control by avoiding the company that induces anger. Chant the mantra (anger is not natural, I have let my anger go), breathe rigourously and chant the mantra 50 times until you realise that no situation or person was responsible, anger came because you allowed. So disallow anger.
2. Check your habit of lying. You have grown up believing lying is natural, you cannot survive without lying. Go the reverse way by feeding the thought 'lying is not natural, I can survive better without lying. Lying is a slow poison, I will disallow it and stop being toxic. I have successfully let go of my habit of lying'.
3. Chant the mantra, 'everyday I have a sound sleep. My stress has gone, all my diseases are leaving my system. I am completely cure. I have healed myself. Now, I am healing others'.
Good sleep is still considered as a panacea, a remedy for all diseases. Unfortunately, with complicated lifestyle, insomnia is almost an endemic disease that's spreading the world over across age and gender. Please follow the steps and get back to sleep.
Disclaimer: Without medicines, 100% effort is required by those who have insomnia.
The patient, also the writer, had acute insomnia. Now, following the steps mentioned, the patient is out of it for good. Call at 9163472016 or email at supratiksen1@gmail.com for any assistance, guided meditation for absolutely free of cost.
Good night, sweet dreams!
Additional steps added by the readers:
You can add few more steps-
1. Drink a small cup of milk (in normal temp) with Haldi (turmeric)
2. Eat small amounts of posto (poppy seed) with sabzi (vegetables) for supper.
3. Maybe listening to some soothing music and saying a sincere prayer would also make for good sleep.
