If you’ve been following along with my series on insomnia so far, you now know that you should learn to take the anxiety out of falling asleep by accepting that there is no one right way to sleep and that you aren’t fully in control of your sleep anyway; that you should master your relationship to light and darkness in order to set your circadian rhythm and optimize your hormones for better sleep; and that you should imprint an association in your brain between your bedroom and good sleep by making your bedroom an inviting space and making it a firm habit to not use it for any stimulating activities such as doing work or watching TV. If you do all of this, there is a good chance that you will start to have an easier time falling asleep each evening.
But what of the person who falls asleep easily, but often wakes up in the middle of the night and has difficulty falling back to sleep?
