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# Time to sleep, mind
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/time-to-sleep-mind/
- Published: 2024-10-26T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-28T14:33:16.000Z
- Description: A quick sleep tip that has changed my life for the better 🛌
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Sleep, Richard Carlson, Real stories, Parenting, Anxiety, Attention, Neuroscience, Principles, Psychology, Stress, Thought realisation, IMPLICATIONS

I’ve had a couple of conversations with people recently, about having trouble sleeping.

And as far as the solution goes, once physiological causes have been ruled out, it pretty much boils down this choice quote from Richard Carlson:

> ***“Your night-time thinking is a reflection of your daytime thinking”***

I mean… why wouldn’t it be? The same process is going on, the only difference is, you can’t employ any of your ingrained habits to distract you from your thinking, when you’re lying there in the quiet of the night!

😂

This means the answer *isn’t* to focus on sleep struggles, it’s to get a deeper appreciation for the principles that govern your daytime thinking habits.

And then sleep will sort itself out.

(This is evidenced by the fact that people who go through my [6 week RECONNECT Course](https://gilespcroft.com/reconnect/?ref=gilespcroft.com) will very frequently report that they’re sleeping better… in spite of us never talking about sleep, once!)

## A quick sleep tip

Sometimes we need a little reminder, and here’s what I do with my 10 year old bedtime munchkin, when she’s got a buzzy brain: I encourage her to ‘have a word’ with her mind and let it know that it’s time for sleep now, and that its services are no longer required.

She’s got dreams for processing all the day’s activities, thoughts and feelings, and the mind doesn’t need to try and do it consciously, on her behalf!

In fact, it’s just getting in the way of the thing that it’s trying to do itself, lol.

(Minds!! 🙄😆)

We sometimes even go as far as pretending to breathe these needless thoughts out of our ears, making a funny, [balloon-deflating](https://youtu.be/aP98T4lyW3c?ref=gilespcroft.com) noise while we do it, which often makes her giggle.

I mean… you’re welcome to try that last tip, but your bed-partner might have something to say about it.

😂

Giles

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