When you think of insomnia, what comes to mind? Is it the exhausted self in countless nights?
For people with insomnia, the cost of opening your eyes until dawn is, in addition to dark circles, but also a whole day of trance and depression, and the fear of nightfall. It's like a vicious circle, the more insomnia, the more fear, the more resistant, the more severe, and even affect the daily work and life.
In fact, insomnia, the "spiritual virus", has been rampant for thousands of years since ancient times but has endured for a long time.
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In ancient China, poets and big men who had difficulty sleeping often inspired themselves in the dead of night and created many famous passages through the ages. Presumably, at this time, most people's minds will pop out of Li Bai's famous sentence "The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground".
However, the big insomniars in ancient times were not Li Bai, but Du Fu.
Du Fu's life, only lived for 58 years, but has a 22-year history of insomnia, can be regarded as a senior patient.
In "The Second Song of Dreams of Li Bai", Du Fu wrote: "Three nights frequent dreams of Jun, love sees Junyi". This night, he lost sleep because he missed Li Bai;
In "Reward Meng Yunqing", it is written that "Le Ji hurts his head white, and he loves candle red longer." Meet the difficult Gungun, farewell to Mo hurried. But fearing that the sky and the river would fall, it was better to say that the wine cup was empty. The Ming Dynasty led the world's affairs and wept from the west to the east." At this time, the heart churned with the feelings of friends gathering and dispersing, and Lao Du lost sleep again;
"Spring Su Zuo Province" has a record: "The flowers are hidden in the twilight, and the chirping birds have passed." The stars are moving, and the moon is nine and nine. Don't sleep listen to the golden key, because the wind thinks of Yuke. The Ming Dynasty had a seal, and the number asked how the night was." Late at night, the work made him insomnia;
"The gang has not rested, and the peace of mind has been singing and sleeping", Lao Du, who has broken his heart for the affairs of the state and the world, is worried and sleepless in anxiety.
In his countless poetic works, there are no less than a hundred poems related to insomnia, from difficulty falling asleep, easy to wake up, early awakening, to sleepless nights, dreams, etc., just like an "insomnia encyclopedia", covering a variety of related symptoms.
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Many of the celebrities we know today are also plagued by insomnia. Li Yong once said that he was extremely energetic every time he recorded a show, and over the years he developed the habit of night owls, which made insomnia more and more serious, and sometimes slept for 4 hours a night.
Bai Yansong, the gold medal host of CCTV, once told the audience the story of his depression due to insomnia in a speech program. Bai Yansong, who faced the death threat at close range, also wrote the article "Life in Illness - Uninvited Insights" after recovering.
In the text, Bai Yansong said that the year of his illness was 1992, which was his own life year. To this day, he still vividly remembers the night he slept last time was at the European Championship football match Denmark versus Germany, and then began a nightmare life.
During that time, he lay in bed every night and waited for dawn, and the result of long-term insomnia was "dizziness during the day, eyes can't see light, the amount of food is smaller, the mood begins to be extremely unstable, books and television can't be watched, and fidgeting all day."
Bai Yansong confessed that at that time, he would rather not seek progress, but also longed for a state of "silly eating and stupid sleep".
This extremely bad insomnia tormented White Rock Pine for a year. At his height of 1 meter 79, at his worst, his weight dropped from 80 kg to 55 kg, and his hair fell out, he did not want to talk, and communication with his lover even needed to use paper and pencil to communicate. Even so, stubbornly refusing to take sleeping pills, he missed the best treatment period.
Compared to the physical discomfort, the most unbearable thing is the mental suffering. The long-term lack of improvement in the treatment process made Bai Yansong no longer trust anyone, including experts, friends and relatives. All that was usually regarded as precious was eclipsed during that time, and he even began to question the meaning of life.
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There are thousands of reasons for insomnia, but the feeling of pain is more or less the same.
Although it is not as good as Du Fu's worries about the country and the people, nor can it compare to the huge pressure on Bai Yansong's work, there are still many ordinary people who are also suffering from the troubles of "everyone sleeps, I wake up alone".
Leaving aside some of the factors that cause insomnia due to diseases, some insomnia is caused by personality. Emotional people, the heart is usually more delicate, heavy feelings, easy to worry about something, a certain person, sentimental, they are often easy to fall into a certain emotion can not extricate themselves, especially in the middle of the night, there are more horses in the mind in the roaring.
At this moment, the adjustment of the self is very important.
From Bai Yansong's "Life in Sickness - Uninvited Insights", we can understand a very important point, that is, how to use inner strength.
The text mentions: "If you let your heart be as noisy and noisy as the free market, it is a dream to sleep peacefully... More importantly, lying down every night does not require yourself to fall asleep as before, but feels that it is only natural that you cannot sleep, so there is no burden in your heart. ”
If we see the complexity that lingers in our minds during insomnia as a wall that oppresses us, then all we have to do is to face it squarely and acknowledge its existence. Embrace it with a "if it comes, it will be welcomed" mentality, and do not resist it hard. At the same time, say to yourself inwardly, "Insomnia is coming to me again, it's no big deal", relax your tense nerves, and let yourself slowly quiet down.
You let go, and it disappears into invisibility.
This method is similar to the Tao Te Ching: "The world is soft, and the world is strong." It means that what seems to be the weakest thing in the world can control the hardest thing. Just as air and water can run freely between the crevices of hard objects, the same is true for fighting insomnia.
Another method that works very well is to divert attention. What is being said here, of course, is not to turn attention to the phone, but to "talk to the body".
Anyone who has practiced yoga has learned that in the final stages of exercise, yoga teachers usually put on a soothing piece of light music. During this period, we lie on a comfortable cushion, and the teacher will use a soft voice to guide everyone to gradually relax their bodies, from the toes, legs, abdomen, limbs, fingers, all the way to the facial muscles, corners of the mouth, eyelids and other parts, through the perception of every small change, and talk to their own body. The state after relaxation is the most comfortable, the most comfortable, and the easiest to enter the sleep state.
If it is difficult for you to fall asleep, you can also imitate the yoga teacher's method, choose a healthy mattress and a comfortable posture at home, and use your inner voice to guide yourself to relax the various parts of your body one by one, so as to smoothly enter the beautiful dream. It should be noted that the mattress should not be too soft, otherwise it is not conducive to the health of the spine.
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