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@Will, I really appreciate this reply and my apologies for the incredible tardiness of my response. I thought I had responded but now I come back to this thread to give further feedback I see I did not. Maybe I did not press submit?

Anyway, I wanted to say a heartfelt thankyou, and to let you know, and anyone else reading this thread, how…[Read more]

@Kim L, I really appreciate the info, I will check out the Shinzen Young video and the Reggie Ray book, many, many thanks!

Many thanks for all the advice! I’m not sure how to reply to specific people via this site, when I clicked ‘reply’ next to a specific post it looked like I was just replying to the whole thread, so I’m going to consolidate replies:

@Salina D, @KimW, I will definitely try standing and walking meditation.

@KimW, many thanks for the tips about…[Read more]

I probably also should have mentioned for context I never have caffeine, chocolate, or alcohol, all of which I cut out due to them exacerbating insomnia.

Many thanks for the reply, I will try doing multiple shorter meditations and gradually increasing the duration.

I forgot to mention in my original post I exercise quite hard 6 days a week and I used to exercise in the AM but that tended to cause a crash 4-5 hours later, so now I exercise at 4 or 5 pm in order to time the crash for when I go to…[Read more]