
Being tired is one thing, resisting it is another. When you put the two together it’s a recipe for feeling worse. What if feeling tired was OK? It might sound like a radical suggestion, but what if feeling tired could be just that, and not snowball into more and more suffering?

If you’ve had sleeping problems for any length of time, it is understandable and even reasonable that you worry about sleep and expect to sleep badly. The important thing to realize is that this way of thinking doesn’t help you sleep well.

If you blame other people or your circumstances for being stressed and/or not sleeping well, it will be difficult, if not impossible to change what you are experiencing. When you blame, you paralyze yourself by making how you feel and act dependent on influences beyond your control…