Sleep Aid

One thing I've wanted to know when doing a reboot is if your sleep quota reduces. In your case it seems quite obvious you're suffering from insomnia but have you asked yourself how much sleep you really might need? Often I think to myself that we sleep as long or as a little as we do just because we think we should. I think the right approach would be to listen to our bodies. I don't use an alarm clock and while I try to keep to regular rising and sleeping times I let my body wake up at whatever time it wants (and I'm never late for work). To improve the quality of my sleep I don't use any electronic devices an hour before bed and I turn down the lights. Natural supplements like melatonin and a calming tea before bed have also really helped. Practicing relaxation and breathing techniques have also been marvelous in particular the 4-7-8 breathing technique. Affirmations while in bed relax the mind as well. When I get into bed I take a moment and recognise my body as an intelligent piece of machinery that's able to do all sorts of things without my conscious input and I ask it to slow down and take as much rest as it needs. When I really suffered badly with insomnia I did taking a sleeping tablet and there is no shame in it. There are non-addictive versions which are great to get your circadian rhythm back in check. Hope this helps.

 

Thanks to everyone in the thread so far. Yeah, right now (day 8) am getting all this stuff like insomnia again. I think I should be sleeping but I can't.

Whats interesting to me is I gravitate toward PMO again in my insomnia. I start blaming my insomnia on the semen retention mainly. If I would just bust a nut I'd sleep again.

I get RLS too which also is a factor in insomnia.

What I did was try to list all the reasons I think could possible cause the insomnia. Being very thorough. And then write what an ideal night of sleep would ideally be like, and how that would improve my life. Now I can go back to my original list of insomnia causes and see what I can do about each one.

I think sleep is important because we really did a lot of damage to our bodies in using all that PMO. Hormonally, nutritionally, emotionally, etc. So we need to sleep to recuperate all that.

I guess the main factor is its really important not to relapse over the insomnia... As I have done many time. So many of my relapses have happened due to me thinking "NoFap is bad because its giving me insomnia" and thinking "PMO will fix my insomnia" so i really want to just hang in there without going back to PMO

And they say its one day at a time but its also one night at a time. So we just have to make it through one night, this night, without relapsing. This night of sleep or restlessness is the ONLY night we have to deal with. Tomorrow night will be tomorrow and so on. So don't get overwhelme by the inticipation of FUTURE insomnias because you don't know anything about FUTURE insomnias for sure. All you know is tonight's sleep situation and that's all you have to face is this moment of this night.