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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 627032" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Oh JKF, I have had those nights too, where I lay in bed thinking of all the terrible, scary things that might at that moment be happening to my difficult child........I get it. </p><p></p><p>I imagine all of us here can relate to you on that one. When it was bedtime, that seemed worse, so I would take melatonin to help me sleep. Breathing deeply helps, reading spiritual books helps, writing down your thoughts, like you just did helps, and writing it in on paper in longhand helps too, it's a brain drain. Try reading, meditating, if it's during the day, walking, which changes your mood and your brain chemistry in only about 11 minutes. Take a bath and stay in the tub as the water drains out, imagining all of the fearful thoughts going down the drain and then go to bed. </p><p></p><p>I recently read that as you are breathing in, breathe in all the fearful thoughts that all the parents all over the world, who are scared about their kid's safety, are feeling right at this very moment, .........as you breathe out imagine breathing comfort and peace to yourself and all of those parents. Pema Chodron talks a lot about this practice, it is a way to ward off our own fears as we hold others in our compassionate embrace and by imagining really how many others are at that moment feeling exactly as you are. I found it helpful. </p><p></p><p>I am sending a prayer for your serenity. Praying helps to JFK, if you are of the mind to do that.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 627032, member: 13542"] Oh JKF, I have had those nights too, where I lay in bed thinking of all the terrible, scary things that might at that moment be happening to my difficult child........I get it. I imagine all of us here can relate to you on that one. When it was bedtime, that seemed worse, so I would take melatonin to help me sleep. Breathing deeply helps, reading spiritual books helps, writing down your thoughts, like you just did helps, and writing it in on paper in longhand helps too, it's a brain drain. Try reading, meditating, if it's during the day, walking, which changes your mood and your brain chemistry in only about 11 minutes. Take a bath and stay in the tub as the water drains out, imagining all of the fearful thoughts going down the drain and then go to bed. I recently read that as you are breathing in, breathe in all the fearful thoughts that all the parents all over the world, who are scared about their kid's safety, are feeling right at this very moment, .........as you breathe out imagine breathing comfort and peace to yourself and all of those parents. Pema Chodron talks a lot about this practice, it is a way to ward off our own fears as we hold others in our compassionate embrace and by imagining really how many others are at that moment feeling exactly as you are. I found it helpful. I am sending a prayer for your serenity. Praying helps to JFK, if you are of the mind to do that....... [/QUOTE]
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