I don't want you to quit, brother. You can beat this. if you'd be willing to try it, I'd like to offer what worked for my dad and for me for one important aspect of this fight.
the brain will not maintain waking consciousness under 8 breaths per minute. when you set a sleep schedule, you use a clock near your bed with a second hand. note your breathing rate and begin dropping it as slowly and comfortably as you can by dividing breaths into quadrants of the clock. Its not easy to go from an average of 4-6 breaths per 15 seconds down to 2 per, so I began by just reducing down to 4 or 3 and declining it as I found possible. NO caffeinated -anything- 4 hours before the set sleep time. Your thoughts may increase if your conscious mind fights you on this. the same as those feeling you mention, the trick is to not be triggered to respond to them. acknowledge, rate, file and dismiss them. do not argue with them. This is hard at first but you will see some progress. Eventually you will fall asleep.
this all sounds like mystic BS but its just science and meditation and nothing like moving the mountain it took to get him (my pop) to take advice from a Vietnamese doctor about this but it changed our lives. you're not alone. your life matters to me. keep at it.
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I don't want you to quit, brother. You can beat this. if you'd be willing to try it, I'd like to offer what worked for my dad and for me for one important aspect of this fight.
the brain will not maintain waking consciousness under 8 breaths per minute. when you set a sleep schedule, you use a clock near your bed with a second hand. note your breathing rate and begin dropping it as slowly and comfortably as you can by dividing breaths into quadrants of the clock. Its not easy to go from an average of 4-6 breaths per 15 seconds down to 2 per, so I began by just reducing down to 4 or 3 and declining it as I found possible. NO caffeinated -anything- 4 hours before the set sleep time. Your thoughts may increase if your conscious mind fights you on this. the same as those feeling you mention, the trick is to not be triggered to respond to them. acknowledge, rate, file and dismiss them. do not argue with them. This is hard at first but you will see some progress. Eventually you will fall asleep.
this all sounds like mystic BS but its just science and meditation and nothing like moving the mountain it took to get him (my pop) to take advice from a Vietnamese doctor about this but it changed our lives. you're not alone. your life matters to me. keep at it.
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