Glad ur feeling better. I have brutal sleep problems, i take zopiclone every night. I'd be interested in hearing about your observations and technique for falling asleep and how its working for you. You have great info in your blogs, thanks for sharing so candidly.

So far that one night has been an exception. I haven't slept very well since. The technique I was using was progressive relaxation. It's where you relax each part of the body one piece at a time, like toes, feet, calves, and so on. It helps to tense up the muscle first and then let go so that you can feel it relaxing.

It takes some practice like any skill but in general any trick that gets your mind off of whatever is keeping it from settling down should help.

I have major bouts with insomnia, and I've used progressive relaxation. Sometimes, though, it just seems like I'm too focused on relaxing each part of my body to fall asleep -- if that makes any sense. Something that has worked a bit better is focusing only on my breathing. Just breathing slowly, in and out, thinking about each breath as it happens and nothing else.

Something that works for me sometimes is practicing letting thoughts go. Sometimes it's hard to fall asleep because I keep focusing on the thoughts in my head. If instead I see a thought coming and I try not to latch onto it or control it, but watch it morph around into a dreamlike thing and just let it go where it wants without forcing it, then I'm out before I realize it.