How do you relax?
I try to meditate at yoga, but I often lose the imagery and fall asleep instead! Somehow the words of different visualisations deeply relax me. Luckily I’ve never had to be woken up, and usually I wake up as soon as the teacher tells us to bring some movement back to our bodies.
I was also given advice about using the word ‘the’ to take your mind off your worries. Basically thinking the word ‘the’ over and over has no context, you can’t attach other ideas onto it. So as I say you lose the worries and you can relax.
Mallaband-Brown 
Interesting. I was thinking about trying yoga nidra because I heard it’s good for helping you relax and sleep, but I don’t know anything about it really. I’d heard about using ‘the’ as a kind of a mantra, or the word ‘thinking’, sounds like it works for you? Very simple deep breathing exercises work for me, or sometimes counting backwards from 200 in my head when I’m trying to fall asleep – I have visual images for some of the numbers but mostly not and I rarely get lower than the 170s before falling asleep.
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I do daft things like counting back from two hundred in threes. But that engages my brain too much. 200, 197,194,191,188 etc etc
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Straight after reading your yoga/relaxation post, I found this on the BBC and it did make me laugh! (Sorry if link doesn’t work, you might need to cut & paste).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-66742339
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Yes I’d seen that! It’s a hoot, they must have been very relaxed xxx
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