Stephanie schrieb:
> My son is very often tired. I am a firm believer in the im****tance of
sleep!
> I think the main problem is that his mind is always thinking and moving.
He
> has a hard time stilling his mind. He will lay awake in bed playing in
his
> head all sorts of pretend games.
>
> One thing that definitely helps is HARD physical exercise throughout the
> day. And we are working to increase this further.
>
> Another thing I thought would help if we were able to learn some
meditaton
> skills. I don't really know much about meditation. So I guess I have to
have
> a clue before introducing it. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to
> proceed or other helpful ideas for sleep? Once asleep, he has no
trouble.
> But *falling* asleep is a problem for him, especially now that he is a
> little older.
Ok, basically, what I'm reading is: When he's not tired enough it takes
him forever to go to sleep.
Which makes a lot of sense because I think it's the same for everyone.
Have you tried moving his bedtime, just by a bit? So he's more tired
when he goes to bed and doesn't get so involved with his "mind-cinema"
that he makes himself stay awake longer?
What you could try is getting him an mp3 player and either headphones or
speakers (my son has my really good headphones *sigh*) and put stories
on it or maybe a relaxation exercise? Look around online. I have a
meditation tape that makes me go to sleep on the first chakra. Sadly I
don't have a tape player anymore. I should really look for this thing on
Cd or as a mp3...
I personally wouldn't look for meditation but for relaxation exercises.
There are people who say falling asleep while meditation isn't a "good
thing"... I don't know whether to agree or not, but I think the purpose
of meditation isn't necessarily entering a relaxed state that lets you
fall asleep. Relaxation exercises are different.
A relaxation exercise that works well for some people is letting your
body go to sleep from your feet up, i.e. "Your feet are tired and heavy,
your calves are tired and heavy, your knees,..." you can add stuff like
how they're warm and how you can feel them sinking into the ground,...
google relaxation exercises.
(http://scs.tamu.edu/selfhelp/elibrary/relaxation.asp
seems to be a good
start)
cu
nicole
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