Reiki,
Do you burn cinnamin and clove insense or oils or something? I really love the smell of clove and would like to know what you use?
I also wanted to mention that the information I posted above in this thread is not my work or words. I found the info on a site somewhere and posted it here. I had attributed it to the site where I found it, but it seems that site solicits donations so the address was taken out of my post. I just didn't want to take credit for someone elses work when all I did was copy and paste it into this forum.
But something I occasionally do is listen to a relaxation tape my aunt gave me years ago when I was first diagnosed with depression and was telling her about my sleeping troubles. It is a self-hypnosis type of 10-minute thing that helps me to shut my mind down. Sometimes I have to listen to it several times before I fall asleep and other times I'm asleep before I knew what hit me. It's very relaxing with the sounds of the forest and the water and the birds and things and the man's voice talking is a very soothing one that tells you to picture things like the color in a leaf as it drifts slowly down a stream and out of sight. I wish I could think of the name of it because it really does work. I keep a tape player next to my bed with that tape in it. Sometimes my problem is that I would rather stay up than to go to sleep so I don't use it as often as I should.
Sometimes reading a boring book can also put me to sleep.
I'm also bad about the caffine thing too.
