![]() For me, however, any attempt to focus on breathing leaves me unable to breathe normally at all. This one is simple: breathe in for four seconds, hold your breath for seven seconds, then breathe out for eight. ![]() Plenty of research suggests breathing exercises are effective for relaxation. As it is, while my This Works: Deep Sleep Pillow Spray with its “superblend of lavender, camomile and vetivert” is pleasant, I am sorry to say This Does Not Work: On Me. Conceivably, if the stuff were 99% Calvados and I soaked my pillow with it then sucked it, it might work. In my experience, a pillow spray is the weakest insomnia Hail Mary out there. I also heard great things about Elemis’s pretentiously named Quiet Mind Temple Balm but was disappointed: it just smells and feels like expensive tiger balm to me. These potions smell delightful, but the use of the word “beauty” is hilariously wrongheaded: I look like a sentient bowl of porridge because I never sleep. This is how I, an otherwise rational person, have ended up using a Balance Me Beauty Sleep Hyaluronic Mist and a Balance Me Beauty Sleep CBD Concentrate rollerball nightly: each “worked” once (yes, time for me to retake correlation/causation 101), so I can never stop, despite them not appearing to have made any appreciable difference to my sleep since. The insomniac is essentially a primitive, credulous creature one whose cognitive functions are probably operating at about 3% of optimum capacity. So I turn mostly to DIY insomnia remedies – and as someone who has given them all a whirl, here is my wholly subjective opinion on what to try and what not to waste your many waking hours on. In desperate times, I use the Valium I was prescribed for migraines – effective, but not a long-term solution. My region isn’t covered by the NHS CBT-based app, Sleepio either, of which I hear good things. ![]() I have never consulted a doctor about insomnia: I don’t know why, other than it doesn’t seem the kind of thing a harassed GP would be able to do much about.
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