So you”ve tried counting sheep… Tried herbal teas, tried Valerian (natural sleep herb), drunk warm milk before bed, tried shining a light behind your knees and many other sleep tips and you just can”t sleep.

If it helps “Insomnia” by Faithless is one of my all time favourite songs. I guess that doesn”t really help you.. Alright back to the issue at hand..

One major cause of Insomnia is a “busy mind” it just won”t shut down. If that’’s what’’s causing you no sleep than writing everything down that is going around in your head may help.

A treatment for Insomnia that may be helpful is a trick you can play on your mind. If your mind won”t shut down, bore it so it decides that’’s the preferred option. I call it the “Sleep-Board” This is how it works:
Close your eyes. Now picture a blackboard.

In your mind draw a big circle on the blackboard and write the number 100 in it. Underneath that write the word “deeper”. Picture it? Ok, now get your eraser and rub out the number 100, carefully so you don”t erase the circle. Then write the number 99 and re-trace the word “deeper”. Then erase the number 99 from the circle and write no 98 and then write deeper again over the top of the existing written “deeper”. Your mind will most probably try and fight you. It will want you to forget which number you”re up to. If you do happen to forget which number you”re up to don”t worry, just quickly pick a new number to start from say 95 if you forget. Your mind will eventually get so bored it will shut down due to boredom. You do need to focus 100% on the blackboard. If you let your mind think about 3 other things whilst visualizing the Sleep board, then it won”t work.
Due to the amount of mediation tracks I own, a lot of friends have come to me asking for something to help them sleep in the form of an mp3.
I have often given them a track that creates Theta brainwaves. Theta creates a drowsy state, unless you”ve been meditating for years and can be conscious and be in Theta at the same time.. (Highly unlikely for most of the population) This track in it’’s raw form doesn”t sound very pleasant so I”m in the process of creating a “Sleep like a baby” mp3 to give free to my mailing list when the website gets up and running.