And also memorised psalms and such: when I was a teenager, Psalm 23 in French with a weird tune I made myself, and these days Psalm 8 in Latin or especially the Pater Noster (to a Gregorian tune I found somewhere) -- this one works well enough I can mentally sing it when otherwise I'd be bursting into tears, and that's been put to the test a bunch recently.
I think most of my techniques are distraction techniques rather than containment techniques. I got taught (as a destressing-to-get-to-sleep thing) about putting stuff away in a box but it wasn't very effective for me. The way I got rid of my problems sleeping was to think about the novel I was writing at the time, planning out scenes in advance and such, which I enjoyed so much that I didn't mind I was still awake two hours after going to bed; and after a while I started dropping off to sleep straight away (and being a bit disappointed in the morning that I'd missed out on my daydreaming time).
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Date: 2011-05-07 02:27 am (UTC)I think most of my techniques are distraction techniques rather than containment techniques. I got taught (as a destressing-to-get-to-sleep thing) about putting stuff away in a box but it wasn't very effective for me. The way I got rid of my problems sleeping was to think about the novel I was writing at the time, planning out scenes in advance and such, which I enjoyed so much that I didn't mind I was still awake two hours after going to bed; and after a while I started dropping off to sleep straight away (and being a bit disappointed in the morning that I'd missed out on my daydreaming time).