Meditation, guided meditations, breathing techniques, sleep stories, body scans, or taking a detailed mental walk can help short-circuit rumination and negative thoughts that interfere with falling asleep.

“the first I would recommend and it's something I practice meditation but really all of these that I'll describe are about getting your mind off itself that's the biggest problem regarding anxiety and sleep onset insomnia which is what I think this person is describing so meditation allows you it's either guide Ed and you're speaking about what you should be doing with your breathing or relaxation uh guided meditations all of those stop your mind from being able to play on itself and go through that Rolodex of anxiety you can do breathing techniques you can listen to sleep stories you can do your own type of body scan anything that you can you can do and something we described which is seems to be a quite effective method is taking yourself on a mental walk close your eyes and a walk that you know intensely well with Vivid 4K detail replicate that to the L I left foot on the first step down the steps take a right at the driveway up I go walk up the hill look to the left the bay is out there it's 5:00 p.m. the sun is starting to set that level of detail and usually when you do any one of these things the next thing that you remember is that you're waking up in the morning because you are able to Short Circuit”