You can’t try to get to sleep

By: Alyssa L. Miller

If you have trouble sleeping it may be because the unchecked flow of thoughts keep you awake. I previously wrote about an exercise for assessing how busy the mind is (Tame the Mind). If you score high here these thoughts will become even stronger when you lie in bed with no distractions. It’s like having a huge V8 car which is revving away in the garage and using fuel and giving off smoke but isn’t actually getting anywhere.

We can measure activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph. This is a device with sensors that pick up electrical activity in …read more