Sleepy Time

My bedtime ritual and the rules of the game, just in case you want to play .

This ritual takes the place of counting sheep and clears my mind before bedtime. I never had a problem falling asleep but I have always had a problem calming my mind down in order to make that happen. 

One night many years ago...and this is actually the first time I am telling anyone I do this..including my husband, I came up with a way to reinforce good thoughts and at the same time clear my mind enough to fall asleep. It worked and almost all the time helps me to fall so quickly asleep I never complete a list.  

Here are the rules as I devised them. 

Lay your head down on the pillow and with one hand trace the words on the sheet or the headboard ...maybe you just want to think them without drawing them ...but for me it helps to make it real if I write them out. 

What your going to write are one word entries . These words will be all the things important to you .

These words will hold power and be what is meaningful to you and all the people you love.  When you are writing these words you are also wishing for what the word stands for, to come true for you in going forward with life.

These desires  can only be written as one word entries. All...except for two. 

One of the two can be a sentence or multi word entry . 

One of the two can also have its defination or explaination along with it. Choose wisley .Because according to my psyche...if you don't follow the rules the wish list is invalid...LOL .

Okay so here is what I write pretty much every night of my life. Use it as an example but be free and make up your own list with what is important to you in life and possibly what attributes you want most of all.

With my head on the pillow and a finger on the sheet I trace in beautiful florid cursive as if I were writing to someone , these words .

HEALTH

WEALTH ( this is my one explaination word) : I do not want it  for me....I wish it because I want to use it to help all those who are so much less fortunate than me. I want to help...the helpless. 

LOVE

PASSION

UNDERSTANDING

LOYALTY

COMPASSION

KINDNESS

FREEDOM

INDIVIDUALITY

COURAGE

STRENGTH

PEACE OF MIND ( this is my one multi word entry).

HUMOR

TENACITY

MOTIVATION

FLEXIBILITY

ETC ETC ETC .

So...you see what my little sleepy time game is now . Rarely if ever have I completed a list and run out of words because I always fall fast asleep while doing this. Many nights the words change order or are left off completely. But every single night this list always starts off with Health...always ...because without that all the ther words are meaningless.

Try it and please tell me if it works for you.