Sleep Is An Accident

No matter how hard we try, sleep never comes around as a direct result of effort. In fact, the harder we try to sleep, the less likely it is to happen. Sleep itself comes about purely by accident. What we *can* do is make ourselves accident-prone.

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Delightfully makes sense! Damn we are so much our own obstacle in all we do. How simply you lay it out for us to realise mindfulness once again, comes to the rescue!!
Thank you.

My son (13) and I, both with ADHD, just listened to this as he's having trouble sleeping (as am I) and we are mindblown (and childishly amused by me telling him to go to bed and have an accident - I'm sorry, but I'm a firm believer in the medicine of laughter!)

He listened to the idea of mindfulness, which he doesn't usually from myself (because let's face it, I'm Mum!) and he loved the idea of not "trying" because it gets us nowhere.

You've also helped me to remember to actually use/do my practice and not just talk about it.

He's snuggled upstairs now gently stroking his softest new bear he bought with his birthday money and I'm much more prepared for going to bed myself. Thank you.

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very interesting. I did not know this about sleep or the inability to sleep. My very best sleeping pill has been to put in my earplugs and turn on one of the children stories an insight timer. I never seem to get more than a few minutes into the story before I am sound asleep. Why? the downside (very frustrating) is I have never been able to listen to the end of any of Bill Larson's telling of the wonderful wizard of Oz. Insight Timer doesn't enable you to advance listening to the spot where you might have left off the night before so one always has to start at the beginning over and over and over again.. 😭