Does Your Mind Run a

Marathon in the Middle of the Night?

 

What do you do when you can’t go back to sleep?

  On Wednesday morning, I woke up in the middle of the night.  I didn’t think anything of it. I went to the washroom and then proceeded to check what time it was.  

It was 1:30am. That was the moment my brain made it into something.

I thought “I better fall back asleep.  I have a 7am coaching call, plus an all-day seminar AND two more calls after that!  It’s going to be a long day and you need the sleep for it!”

Of course, what do think happened?

I couldn’t fall back asleep.

My mind was running a marathon, buzzing with random thoughts, ideas and things to do.
  • You should go to sleep.
  • Oh dear I have bad B.O.
  • Gift to Diane.
  • Send email to Rina.
  • It’s ok you will remember all of these ideas tomorrow.

I tried hard to talk myself back to sleep. When that didn’t work, I tried my breathing exercise.  That didn’t work. My mind was still running.

At one point, I thought “This would be a good time to do a mind dump.”

But my mind resisted.  

I was thinking, “I can do this without it.  It’s too much effort. It’s going to wake me up even more if I grab my pen and paper now.” (My pen and journal was right next to me.)  

I continued to try to talk myself back to sleep for what seemed like another couple hours before I finally surrendered to doing a mind dump.

At this point I thought, “Well I’ve been up for so long, what’s another 30 minutes!”

As soon as started to dump my thoughts onto paper, my mind quiet down.

LOL!  I thought “really come on Vanessa, you could have done this long time ago!’

The fact was, I didn’t do the mind dump right away.

I was meant to have resisted so that I would have that experience.

I learned from it and now I get to share the story with you.

Can’t go back to sleep?

DO A MIND DUMP!

 

Simply write all that’s in your head ON TO PAPER!

It doesn’t matter that you can’t see what you’re writing, just get it out of your mind!

It's not useful to have them all up in your head.

Our brain has a lot to do for the day, we can help it out!

 

After my mind dump, I fell asleep I think for only half an hour before my alarm went off, but I felt fine all day because my mind was cleared.  I knew a learning experience came out of it.

 

Live Freely XO,

Vanessa Leung

Vanessa Leung is a Success Coach, Speaker, Blogger and the founder of 80/20 Living & Co.

Vanessa teaches a simple and practical method to help ambitious leaders and coaches to stop negative patterns and get sh*t done with ease.  Her unique set of tools and techniques help her clients move beyond their fears and elevate their energy and confidence. That way, they can succeed in their business while living their best life.

Are you ready to live in abundance?

Scroll to top