This is episode 1,911. Welcome back.

We are midweek in our series.

And I wonder how you're doing with your dream journal.

You might wake up some mornings and not remember

dreaming at all and that is fine. You might just note then in your journal how

you're feeling if you're feeling refreshed

after your sleep or maybe you're feeling a little groggy and try to think

about why that may be so? Did you toss and turn? Or did you have a lot of trouble

falling asleep? So just note in your sleep journal, along with your dreams, how you feel when you wake up.

I hope you're beginning to feel a little more refreshed as you apply these peace techniques this week.

Remember, I always say in each series that as you're going through a series

you're layering the different techniques and tips. And so by the end of the

series, you've kind of got a good picture of what to do. And then from that point onward go ahead and apply it. So the week of a

series is really kind of like a practice week and I hope that you don't think oh well I'm just

going to be focusing for this one week on my peaceful sleep. I hope you will realize that this is your

week to experiment, to notice what's working and to just become familiar with

these techniques and concepts I'm sharing with you.

I want to share with you one of the most common reasons why people have trouble falling asleep at night.

And that has to do with rumination.

It's a thought that either pops into your head as you get ready to go to sleep that you can't

seem to let go of.

Or it's a thought that you've been tossing around in your mind throughout the day.

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