Your Mind Keeps Going Over Tomorrow At Bedtime Because Nothing Else Is Holding It For You

Give Your Thoughts Their Own Time And Their Own Place

Ripple Settling means letting a thought come and go the way a ripple crosses a still lake. You notice it, give it a place to wait if it matters and leave it alone, and it settles by itself.

On the track Steve takes you to a smooth rock beside a mountain lake at dusk, where the breeze fades and the ripples grow smaller until the water is a mirror. A pebble slips into the water and sinks slowly to the soft sand as he counts, and down there, deep below the surface, everything is quiet.

“Thoughts are like ripples on the surface of that lake. They come and they go, and when you leave them alone, they settle on their own.”

When you’re ready to drift off, the track teaches a gentle picture game. You picture one simple, ordinary thing, perhaps an apple, and see it clearly for a few moments. Then you let it fade and picture another that has nothing to do with the first, perhaps a candle, then a feather, then a little wooden boat. With no story to follow and nothing to work out, the mind becomes soft and dreamy.

The routine around it is small, and it’s the same every day:

1. 1Download the track. It’s yours within five minutes and plays on any device.
2. 2Put on a pair of headphones and press play, every day.
3. 3Stay with this one track for 21 days, as Steve suggests.

Even “I mustn’t forget” gets a place of its own on the track: one line on the notepad beside your bed, and the paper holds it until morning.

None of it asks you to force your mind quiet. In Steve’s words, “Even resting quietly with your eyes closed is good for you,” and the track lets sleep come in its own time.

From The First Open Tab To The Pillow, Five Habits That Feed A Busy Mind

1. 1

   The Pillow To-Do List

   Tomorrow gets planned in bed because it hasn’t been planned anywhere else. Every task the mind is afraid of forgetting gets rehearsed in the dark, and each rehearsal wakes you a little more. A list written clearly and in detail in the early evening lets the paper hold it instead.

2. 2

   The Always-Open Door

   Thoughts get your attention whenever they knock, all evening long, because they have no time of their own. A short thinking time in the early evening, in the same chair or at the same table, gives them one. Later, when a thought pops up, you can tell it, “Thank you, that can wait for my thinking time.”

3. 3

   The Push-Away

   Forcing a thought out of your head keeps you alert and sends it straight back. Naming it is gentler: “That’s planning.” “That’s replaying.” “That’s just a thought.” A thought with a name is easier to step back from, the way you might watch ripples cross a lake from a rock on the shore.

4. 4

   Three Things At Once

   All day the mind jumps between tasks and tabs, so by the evening it’s still running at that speed. One thing at a time, with a slow breath between tasks, lets it slow down long before bed, and putting the screens away in the last hour helps it wind down further.

5. 5

   The Middle-Of-The-Night Restart

   This one comes at the very end, after the mind has settled. You wake in the night with a thought already running and start trying hard to get back to sleep, and the trying keeps you awake. The track’s answer is to notice it, smile and begin again with the very next breath, knowing that resting quietly with your eyes closed is good for you too.

How many of those five did you recognize? The track has a habit for each of them.

What People Are Saying About Dr. Steve G. Jones’s Hypnosis Programs

That’s the hypnotherapist who guides you down to the still water beneath your thoughts in Calm an Overactive Mind, and the track is yours for $29.95.

“My Mind Is Far Too Busy To Be Hypnotized”

A busy mind is the one this track was made for, so there’s nothing to get right before you start, and the track never asks you to empty your mind.

Whenever your mind wanders, Steve asks you to bring it back to your breath, kindly and patiently, as many times as you need. In his words, “And every time you do, your mind grows a little quieter.”

Linda Abramson wrote this about Steve’s work:

“open a new door to a new path”

I would highly recommend you and your site to anyone who is fed up with the way things are now, this minute, and want to open a new door to a new path. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Three Kinds Of Busy Mind This Track Was Made For

If one of those sounds like you, you can start tonight for $29.95.

Leo Konfino, one of Steve’s students, wrote this about his work:

“I’ve been inspired to live out my dreams”

My appreciation for your work and the positive impact it’s made on my life is far more than I’m able to describe here. However, I’ve been inspired to live out my dreams and have actually taken real steps towards its realization in the past few months. Your Fan, Student & Friend.

Calm an Overactive Mind is for busy, racing thoughts and the evenings they take over, and it’s no replacement for your doctor. If busy or troubling thoughts weigh on you a great deal, by day or by night, talk with your doctor or a counselor, as the track itself suggests. Severe worry or panic, distressing thoughts that won’t leave you alone, and long-lasting poor sleep, loud snoring or daytime sleepiness should all be seen by a doctor first. Because the track ends with suggestions for sleep, play it in bed at night and never while driving. (The 30-day, no-questions-asked guarantee covers everyone who does buy.)

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