Bedtime Stories for Stressed out Adults: Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults: Relaxing Sleep Stories for Everyday Guided Meditation to Help With Insomnia and Anxiety
By Anna Lopez
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Are you too stressed out?
Are you struggling to have a good night's sleep?
If you're one of the millions of adults who have found it difficult to consistently achieve restful and recuperative sleep, you might need to make changes to your nightly routine, as well as to your coping mechanisms for stress. The internet is a wellspring of information on ways to change stress, but some of those are merely a bandage on a wound that needs something more.
One of the major things that has been found to disrupt and degrade the quality of sleep is browsing online shopping, websites, social media, and mobile games in bed at night. It turns out that reading small amounts before bed is an ideal way to entertain your mind, allow you to disconnect from the stresses of everyday life, and drift into a peaceful sleep.
That's why this collection includes completely original tales for you to read each night before bed. These bite-sized stories span several different genres and will allow you to entertain yourself before getting a great night's sleep.
In this book you will find:
Proven techniques that you can use to revolutionize the way you handle stress
Original short tales to keep your mind engaged until you're ready for sleep
Information you can really use to change your life for the better!
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Bedtime Stories for Stressed out Adults - Anna Lopez
Chapter 1: Why Getting to Sleep is So Hard
If you find that getting to sleep is a chore that can drag on and on each night, you’re not alone. Each year, more and more people are reporting that they’re having difficulty sleeping, and it’s really no wonder with the growing percentage of people with stress, anxiety disorders, depression, and more. Many health and medical outfits who have dedicated themselves to finding answers to sleeplessness and insomnia have found that there are quite a few factors that can lead to broken sleep, no sleep, or sleep that inexplicably results in little to no rest.
Some people go years without even realizing that the quality of their sleep is poor, simply because it’s the way it’s always been
for them. People who have dealt with chronic stress for most of their lives, people whose sleeping conditions simply weren’t conducive to appropriate sleep without ever realizing there were other options, people who get up several times throughout the night for one reason or another so they have no time to experience a lasting REM cycle, and more.
Difficulty with sleep can make life harder because it can affect our physical health and wellbeing, as well as our mental health and wellbeing. Health decline as a result of sleeplessness can be exceedingly difficult for many reasons. Part of this can be not knowing if it’s the lack of sleep causing mental difficulty, or if it’s the mental difficulty causing lack of sleep. In some cases, it’s both.
Getting to the root of your sleeplessness is the first step toward making changes that can give you a better shot at getting at least the occasional night of restful sleep and work forward from there. Some of the most common reasons we can’t get to sleep have to do with our mental state at the time of day when we’re trying to switch off for the night. If you can’t help but think about all the things that you forgot to do that day while you’re trying to wind down, you’re going to have a considerably harder time.
Getting ready for sleep requires quiet, calm, and darkness for most people. Some people thrive on chaos, but for many, these are requisites for getting into a night of restful sleep. Getting the rest that you need can seem impossible if your brain won’t stop bringing up things that you forgot, won’t stop thinking about the things that have gone wrong, won't stop thinking about possible scenarios with negative outcomes, or whatever else comes up when you’re innocently laying there trying to get some sleep.
For many people, this is the case. They simply try to settle in for the night and things start coming up from as far back as their elementary school days to jar them out of their peaceful descent into sleep. So, how do we go about changing this?
It turns out that stress is a fairly common reason for people to feel like they can’t get to sleep. Stress is a large umbrella that covers a large number of things. Anxiety, worry, disappointment, anger, and so much more are things that fall under this umbrella. These are all things that can keep us hung up and keep us from focusing on the task at hand.
Stress relief is one of those things that has been the subject of countless talk shows, self-help books, and so much more. When you think about stress, you have to think about what that stress causes for you. When you’re stressed, your body is releasing cortisol, a hormone that can disrupt many parts and aspects of your internal systems. Your body is staving off or disrupting many natural processes that can help you through your day. When you are stressed, your body will pull up a lot of very weird things simply to avoid that stressful topic, or it will go the opposite direction and it will try to get you into hyper-focus on that subject when you’re trying to achieve rest.
In many cases, the simplest and most direct way to address this and to stop this type of thing from happening is to resolve the situation that is causing you stress. In most cases, this is something that is far easier said than done. It will take some dedicated effort, but you need to admit to yourself that your mental health, your physical health, your peace of mind, and your life are all worth the time they take to maintain.
It seems that more and more these days, people are less and less convinced that the things they need to do in order to safeguard and improve their own physical and mental health are things that take a backseat to others, or which get put on the back burner. This is rather inexplicable to someone who is used to taking care of themselves, as one cannot be expected to do a job well, to help others, to thrive, to help others to thrive, or to last very long if their mental or physical health is failing. In short, you cannot pour from an empty cup.
There is a reason why the self is considered number one,
and it’s not a colloquial or satirical sense of narcissism. One needs to take care of oneself if one expects to do anything for others. Putting others before oneself is admirable to a point, but you can’t benefit from any admiration if you’re dead on your feet, now can you? You need to get adequate sleep, you need to eat three meals per day, you need to do things that you enjoy, you need to have time for yourself, you need to bathe and mind your own hygiene, and you need to have fun now and then. These are non-negotiable staples that every human being needs in order to thrive.
Sure, you can go without them. You can be that edgy person who never needs to sleep, who thrives on coffee and biscotti, who spends 97 hours at the office every week, and you can be the person who never seems to do anything for themselves. I can tell you from experience that it will kill you if you don’t rein it in and take care of yourself eventually. Your needs cannot be negotiated, and they wouldn’t be needs if they could, now would they?
So, aside from making sure you’re eating, bathing, and stimulating your mind regularly, how can you work to eliminate the stress that seems to keep you from getting that sleep that you need each night?
Well, there are quite a few methods that you can try. Everyone is different, so everyone’s means of decompressing and lessening stress will change to some extent. Some can let go of stress with a hot bubble bath and candles, while some require something a little bit more exploratory or more robust.
Let’s take a look at some of the most effective de-stressing methods. See if you can pick out one or two that you would like to try for yourself!
Chapter 2: What Tools are Available?
What is Guided Meditation?
Guided meditation is a process that allows someone to meditate at the instruction of another. You may have looked at the possibility of meditation but didn’t know how to keep your mind quiet. Or maybe you’ve wondered how you were supposed to know if you were doing it right or getting enough out of the process. The beautify of guided meditation is that you have someone telling you, the whole way through, that you’re on the right track, where to direct your mind, how to deal with the thoughts that come up when you’re not expecting them, how to keep your mind centered somewhere peaceful, and how to ensure that the time you spend meditating is useful enough to you.
It is possible for you to meditate on just about any subject and doing so can take some practice. You can use soundtracks, white noise, or music to help you when you’re looking to focus on the task of guided meditation, You can also do it in