Overthinking at Night? Here's How to Finally Switch Off

About this episode

This episode explores the reasons behind overthinking at night and offers a somatic practice to help the nervous system relax.

You started this morning early. Now it's late — and your mind still hasn't stopped. This isn't a sleep anxiety problem. Your nervous system is still at work. Most solutions for overthinking at night start in the mind. Journal. Meditate. Count your breaths. And if you're still here, still awake, it's not because you're bad at switching off. It's because the signal keeping you wired isn't coming from your thoughts. It's coming from deeper than that. In this episode, we look at why racing thoughts at night are your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do — and the one biological shift that finally tells it the day is over. No prior experience needed. No special tools. Just somewhere quiet and about ten minutes. What you'll find here: — Why anxiety at night isn't a flaw. It's a signal. — The biology of what keeps you wired long after the day ends. — A somatic practice to help your nervous system finally let go. If you want to go further, I've put together a free 3-Day Reset — three short audio practices that work with the same mechanism. Yours to download, yours to keep. Three audio practices. Each one designed to move your nervous system from the state it's been…

People in this episode

Host: Damian Appleby

Topics covered

• overthinking
• nervous system
• sleep anxiety
• somatic practice
• biological shift

Keywords

• overthinking
• sleep
• nervous system
• anxiety
• somatic practice
• biological shift
• meditation
• journaling

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