Fear of seeing time at night and how to overcome it (Timeless principle follow-up)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 3. 08. 2024
- Has the timeless principle turned into an avoidance strategy? Have you felt anxious when you accidentally looked at time at night? This video might give you insights in overcoming this obstacle.
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Before starting my recovery from insomnia I felt like I was doomed to the struggle of falling asleep, everything about going to sleep at night was a string of things that condemned me to look at the ceiling and dispair. I did not know that I had insomnia. I put in so many efforts, so many avoidances that my life was not fun anymore. Thanks to your channel I was able to put words to what I was experiencing and finally got going on recovering and fall asleep again. No more doom. I still have short nights but I have more long nights than short nights. I accept everything that goes on with my sleep. The best part for me is I donât remember exactly how and when I fall asleep or go back to sleep into the night, this is an amazing feeling. My sleep is deeper and deeper and I am so happy. I say believe in the freedom to fall asleep and put the doom behind you. Thank you so much Alina. I donât have any questions but hopefully my comments help your subscribers (and you). I love your content and I always look forward to your videos, newsletter etc. Cheers!
You comments are always a delight to read
I don't care about sleep anymore. I just need a peaceful mindđą
I've only watched a couple videos of yours so far and I'm already seeing a major difference. Just last night I stopped viewing wakefulness as an issue, I stopped thinking of all the "rules" of sleeping, and just stopped trying to sleep. I read a couple pages of a book and fell asleep in 10 minutes. There'll be ups and downs for sure, that's totally fine, but so far you've put me on the first steps of better nights. Thank you for that, you've saved my sanity.
The accidental glance at the corner of the phone while watching something is so me đ
Thanks for this insightful video!
Edit: Yeah so I slept for two weeks and my insomnia came back.. and it took some more accepting but eventually even that went away. Now itâs like I really donât care if I have insomnia or not.. it doesnât bother me because I realised I can still function and I can still enjoy life even with insomnia and if it came back well.. Iâd just welcome it gladly lol.
My original comment:
Hey Alina, I had pretty bad insomnia for over two months but then I saw your video on how u overcame your insomnia I watched it a few times and I became a little introspective or my problem and I realised that my main issue was the fear of insomnia not some bullshit âroom at wrong temperatureâ or some âchemical imbalancesâ in my body. So then that day I completely surrendered. I couldnât give a shit if I slept or not and damn. I slept better. I kept doing that and it kept getting better. Now Iâve slept pretty peacefully for over two weeks. But the thing is I still have that slight fear which I canât seem to get rid of like every night I think âhmm what if today I canât sleepâ. I do sleep⊠but Iâd to not even think about it all you know.. Anyway thanks for your help you explained it soooo clearly and so correctly not even four psychiatrist doctors I met could.
You are brilliant Alina, your struggle has helped me and thousands of others and will continue to help people. You are a gem đ
@@cristianzor_scs thank you Cristian đ
Hi, i finally understood insomnia is not a disease but the problem is whenever i close my eyes to sleep i instantly start to panic for no reason and it feels like time passing by so soon
It shows that your approach to insomnia comes from living it yourself. Thanks!
Thank you for this interesting video! I often find myself in this exact situation - struggling to avoid knowing the time. But I can usually tell the time somehow anyway, e.g. by the light outside, from sounds (aircraft flying at certain times), my own hunger etc. I wonder how people can even avoid noticing sunrise? So really your suggestion seems to be the only way.
Trying to accept anxiety will lead to anxiety.
Suppressing and trying to not feel anxious often results in the increase in anxiety. Our brain learns to not feel safe with our emotions and so it may create more anxiety about anxiety.
Teaching ourselves that our emotions are not our enemies and genuinely accepting them can reduce a lot of suffering.
And by acceptance we don't mean liking anxiety or wishing ourselves to struggle with it for the rest of our lives, but accepting that currently we might experience this emotion, and it not an utterly terrible thing. Most importantly, this emotion, as any other emotion, is fleeting and by accepting it, we also accept that things change and we might feel better in the future.
Plsss give me a tips on how to deal with problems in lifeđą
When the next video ?
Sis is there any way I can be a part as a current insomniac i am very interested in ur website and work:)đ
Hi! Feel free to drop me an email (on my website) if you have something specific in mind!
Dear Alina i really2x want to have a conversation with you but i can't afford your rates because i'm just a student. I really need your advice. Your videos and letters gave me so much hopesssss.
Plsss tell me how to work with negative thoughts about my self. I constantly thinking about it and it always triger my brain and it send physical sensation which is very unconfortable for me. Sleep doesn't bother me anymore. This negative thoughts always destruct my life
What type of thought do you have m8?
Once I made a video on 4 ways to work with anxious thoughts which might bring some clarity and insight: czcams.com/video/tZulhVcZ2ZE/video.html
@@KpC169 thoughts that are not connected with sleep but it disrupt my sleep, decision making as well as my day . This are negative thought's about my relationship with others (friends, girlfriend, relatives and etc) for example: what if my girlfriend thinks that i was cheating on her (which is i never do) but it always triggers my brain. I always think a hypothetical situation where i put my self in a messy condition. I know that those negative thoughts are not true but my brain keeps telling that it is threat. Plssss help me i'm stuck with this.
@@user-bz3hw7mp5gpersonally, I donât know anything about relationships but if Iâm talking about my close friends I would tell them how I feel and that might bring me some peace but if they werenât that close I would just tell myself I donât care what they think. And if you think that you might not have many close friends right now itâs okay it might take some time until you find the right ones so be patient with urself and make urself ur best friend pal. And yeah I know very well itâs much easier said than done, so I just hope this helps u in some way atleast
@@user-bz3hw7mp5gif ur having random thoughts about what some strangers might be thinking of you or this or that u gotta improve your social confidence Man U gotta teach your brain that it doesnât matter what he or she says or thinks and your thoughts about stuff like this might as well vanish but yeah it can take some time to build confidence