Why staying in bed backfires
“This one technique has helped more of my patients than anything else. It’s simple — and it works.”
Wendy. She had insomnia herself.When you can’t sleep, the natural impulse is to stay in bed and at least “rest.” But after laying awake a while, frustration builds, your mind races, you check the clock or your phone — and your brain starts linking the bedroom with anxiety, not sleep.
Stimulus Control breaks that link. By only being in bed when you’re actually sleeping, you train your brain to associate the bedroom with one thing: drifting off.
Spend most of your bedroom time sleeping, and most of your awake time outside the bedroom.