Coaching practices for It's Not Really My Thoughts Keeping Me Up It's My Body My Shoulders Are Up by My Ears My Jaw is Clenched My Legs Feel Restless and Coiled and I Can't Seem to Let Any of it Go Just by Lying Still and Willing it

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• It’s not really my thoughts keeping me up, it’s my body
• I get into bed and my body is still humming
• My head knows there’s nothing I can do about this, but my body refuses to get the message
• When I’m caught in a worry spiral I can literally feel it in my face and throat
• Every time I sit to relax I end up fighting my own thoughts and grading myself a failure for not clearing my mind

Practices that may help

1. Progressive muscle relaxation to lower physical arousal
   Systematically tense and release muscle groups from feet to head to lower the physiological arousal that blocks sleep onset.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
2. Use PMR to wind down for sleep
   Run the sequence lying in bed to lower physical arousal and ease the transition to sleep.
   Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Made Practical
3. Willing hands and half-smile (acceptance through the body)
   Use open posture and a faint half-smile to signal acceptance to the body, when the mind can’t get there yet.
   Radical Acceptance, Made Practical
4. Addressing mental tension through the body
   Recognize that anxious thinking produces detectable muscle tension — and reducing that tension can ease the thought spiral.
   Edmund Jacobson’s Progressive Relaxation, Made Practical
5. Adopt a passive attitude toward intruding thoughts
   When thoughts arrive, let them pass without judgment and return to the anchor — no fighting, no scoring.
   The Relaxation Response, Made Practical
6. Box breathing as a sleep-onset tool
   Use the equal-cadence pattern in bed to lower arousal and shorten the time to sleep.
   Box Breathing, Made Practical
7. Working with restlessness-and-worry (uddhacca-kukkucca)
   Restlessness and worry require settling, earthing, and narrowing the attentional field — not more vigilance.
   The Five Hindrances: Diagnosing and Working with Meditation Obstacles
8. Physiological sigh for sleep-onset arousal
   Use two to three sighs in bed when racing thoughts or physical tension are blocking sleep.
   The Physiological Sigh, Made Practical
9. Leaves on a stream visualisation
   Picture each thought as a leaf floating downstream — watch it pass without grabbing it.
   Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical
10. Yoga nidra as a wind-down
    Use a yoga nidra session to transition from a busy mind into sleep.
    Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery

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