Slowing the brain down

For a lot of us there are times when we don't know how to deal with getting the brain slow down before we go to bed and I know I'm one of those because there are times I just want to continue to write. In some cases, it's just too many ideas running around in my head and I can't seem to get the words into one format so that when I go to write about them nothing seems to happen. I can have lots of ideas all at once, but it is just trying to figure out how to get them down on paper.

Tonight is just one of those nights where I want to be able to make lots of notes and see that I have been able to accomplish something. The problem is that when I go to write them down everything just blends and I can’t get each individual idea down. When I can get even a few words about each idea down it seems to help me be able to slow the brain down a bit. How often have you sat either in front of your computer or with your notebook and nothing seems to come out. Yes, you have lots of thoughts and ideas, but nothing makes it out of the brain.

How do you slow your brain down:

• There are times when I can just relax and my brain starts to know that it's time to wrap up all the various thoughts and ideas for the day before I go to bed.

• There are times when I tuck in or about to tuck in and all the various thoughts and ideas start bouncing around and I just can’t slow them down. This is normally when I grab the notebook and I try to at least write out one thing or even just words that don’t make sense in the morning.

• Sometimes just being able to close my eyes and focus on relaxing helps sometimes. I have also found that I sometimes use a pillow/room mist on my pillow and the scent helps me to relax and close the brain down.

• One thing that I have found that does help me sometimes in the evenings is taking either a St John's Wort or a Gaba does helps me and I can see that I've been able to get things done.

I think everyone has a different way of slowing their mind down when it starts to feel like everything is just racing around. Right now, I'm sitting here writing this before I try and get to bed because my brain bounced around this idea for quite some time, so it was time for me to at least try and get some of it out.

Being able to slow your brain down can be a challenge and it can really depend on what you were doing throughout the day. I know that when I have been very active with things those are the nights that I have the hardest time slowing the brain down enough so that I can get a good night sleep. If there have been lots of things happening around me during the day and/or evening I try to ensure that I at least try and capture a few small thoughts or ideas and that normally helps.