513 How Do I Stop Thinking Before Bed?

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  You've probably been told that if you could just calm your mind before you go to bed, you would fall asleep.

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  But trying to calm your mind is actually what's keeping you so stuck.

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  I want to explain why because once you understand this, it might completely change

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  how you feel about those nights when you're laying there looking at the ceiling.

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  Your mind is racing and you cannot get to sleep.

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  So often I get asked, how do I stop thinking before bed?

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  And the short answer is you don't.

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  We all...

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  Have thoughts.

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  You're going to have thoughts.

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  There is no way for you to stop thinking before bed,

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  but there are strategies you can use that stop you from looping around and around

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  and only getting more and more agitated and feeling more and more awake when your head hits the pillow

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  and you're laying there at 2am in the night.

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  And once you can start to learn how to manage those nighttime scaries, everything does change.

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  Now, I know what you're probably thinking.

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  Kimberly, what?

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  You just want me to lay here and let my own brain torture me and go round and round?

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  No, that is not what we're going to be doing and talking about today.

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  Today, I want to give you some specific concrete skills

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