Hang your Worries, Don't hang around with them

 

A good night sleep heals everything. A tired mind and even an ailing body. That is what many people are heard saying. Have you ever felt that a realaxed sleep brought you so much peace that your energy got renewed? In spite of this, have you also felt tired even after getting a crazy amount of sleep? I am sure many of us have gone through this experience. What do you think could be the reason? 

While it is true that we are physically rested but mentally not at peace. Hence we are stressed and cannot have a sleep without any thoughts. 

It happens with all of us. I have developed my own technique to deal with it and I do follow it at most times. I shall share it with you here as a gift as we move to the new year. 

Before we falll it is great to follow a ritual. I do it. Like I say in my mind few words of gratitude to all those who have crossed my path in the day, i pray and then shut my eyes. However, to control the worrying thoughts which flow on and on i do this visualisation exercise. 

Imagine a huge strong tree outside my house. Now one after the other bring the worrying thoughts visually in front of my eyes and put a hook on them, and then hang them on the tree. Continue doing so till it feels that your weighing thoughts are taken over by the tree. Now symbolically the tree has the thoughts and not you. You also know that it's right there and you can take the thought back at any point you want. You know that the tree is strong enough to bear the weight of as many thoughts you would like to hang onto it.

It's amazing to do this exercise over and over again, as a wild thinking, till you master it and feel relieved. This is my way of getting peaceful sleep even if it's few hours.

Hope this helps some of my readers in 2023. Wish you a happy, blessed new year.