Tag: Sleep

on being tired but for good reasons

I’m too tired to make a great big entry to this post but I have a list of good reasons to be tired that make you feel good:

  • Working for over 12 hours and getting great work done that you’re proud of and going to bed without any more things you have to do
  • Staying up too late talking to your favorite person even though your eyelids can’t possibly be open for much longer, you keep them open just to hear them talk
  • Figuring out how to play a song that isn’t tabbed anywhere and even though you won’t play it for anyone because they wouldn’t know it, you remembered all the words and got all the notes right just for you
  • Finishing the last season of the best show ever and taking time to figure it all out
  • Thinking a little too much about someone and wondering what they meant when they said that thing that made you smile so big that you felt it all day and all night
  • Not moving from your spot on the couch because your little animal is asleep and you just can’t bear to wake it up because it’s just so cute and you’re so happy that your pet is your small house guardian
  • Reading a really good book and not realizing that you’d spent hours and hours reading but it was so worth it for the ending and the story and you get to take part of that story with you into your own
  • Going on an epic Wikipedia or YouTube dive and learning a bunch of new things that you wouldn’t have if you hadn’t happened upon them
  • Still taking off your makeup and putting your hair in a ponytail so it doesn’t get messed up with you sleep even though you could dive under the blankets now, but you prevented the messed up hair and the zit that always pops up when you don’t wash your face
  • Looking forward to something so much that you can’t sleep like you’re a kid going to Disneyland for the first time ever but you’re not a kid so you have to relish these moments because they’re so few and far between

And that’s it, a lot of run on sentences later. I’m happy and happy to be happy for many many reasons but these are a few good ones.

sleeping well

Lately I have been getting the best sleep, and I think it’s because of my new sleep routine.

Before I go to sleep, I mentally end my day. I lay on my back, and I think about my day and let go of everything. I think about the events of the day, and I rate them. What did I do well? What could I have done better? If something good happened, I focus on it and I feel gratitude and happiness for that moment. If something bad happened, I take a mental note on how I can mitigate that in the future, and I move on. What’s done is done, and it’s already the past. I do not focus on the past any longer.

Next I think about my goals for the next day or the coming week. I visualize them happening, and I feel the happiness and excitement of my goals being met. I channel the law of attraction. I am so happy that I have this promotion. I love my new car. I am thankful for everything I have and everything I will have.

The past and future focus only take about five minutes each.

Presently, I want to sleep well so I set my intention for a deep sleep. I get into my sleeping position, usually on my side or stomach, and I count down from 100. I usually don’t wake up until my alarm goes off the next day, and I feel very well rested.

I think this is some form of meditation on the past, future, and present but I don’t pressure myself at all into doing any of it a certain way. I give everything the attention it deserves and I sleep well knowing that I did what I could and that I am striving to do better. The best feeling is knowing that all that is expected of me right now is to sleep, and I’m an excellent sleeper.