THE WORRY CHAIR - One common conditioning technique used by counselor’s is the Worry Chair Strategy. It is especially useful for those who have trouble falling asleep because they are ruminating about their day.  Here’s What To Do:    

1. Choose a specific chair in your home and designate it as the Worry Chair. 
      

    

2. If you are worrying about things and unable to sleep for more than 10 minutes, then get out of bed and go sit in the Worry Chair. 
      

    

3. Allow yourself to worry all you want when you are in the chair. Take each worry to its conclusion before you move on to the next worry. 
      

    

4. Stay there as long as you need to (Until you are done worrying). 
      

    

5. Return to bed. 
      

    

6. If you start worrying again, then go to your Worry Chair and repeat the process. Do not allow yourself to worry in any other spot in the house. 
      

    

7. You can add journaling to your worry time if that is helpful for you. 
      

    

While this technique may be strange, it is a method for you to condition your worry to that chair instead of your bed or anywhere else. It puts you in control of the worry rather than having the worry control you. Lack of sleep will kill your focus so don’t allow it to go on too long. - Furniture World Magazine,
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