HOW DID YOU SLEEP?

"How did you sleep?" 

This was the first thing my husband and I used to ask each other first thing each morning. We would share precise details. Did we wake up multiple times? Did we get up to use the bathroom? Did we have disturbing dreams? Did the cat walk on you too? How many hours had we slept? After several years of wondering why I was walking around so tired and anxious all the time, I finally made the connection. It wasn't the actual quantity or quality of sleep that was making me tired, it was talking about it that was draining my energy!

Without much discussion or hoopla, I decided to stop focusing on my sleep and just go to sleep when I was tired and wake up when my body was ready to wake up. It wasn't long before I realized that I couldn't even tell you how many hours I had slept the night before. I felt more relaxed and rested in general. I finally felt connected to my body's natural rhythm and trusted that I would get the rest I needed.

On my walk this morning, when this topic came bubbling up to the surface, I attempted to figure out what my sleep patterns actually are. Guess what? They CHANGE!!! I tend to be an early riser and usually get up once in the night, but other than that, my body goes its own way!

Trust your body's innate wisdom and flow with your own natural rhythms. Sweet dreams!