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Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy
Sounds like you've made your job your life.
Meditate - make a concentrated effort to think about nothing each day and then see what happens. Its very difficult at first, you'll have a lot of images, thoughts and voices in your mind and body. Concentrate on your breathing and ignore everything else. Gradually, you'll get very good at it.
Its not the solution, but a tool to help add balance to your day. Doing this should help you become clear on some of the other possibilities you might want to pursue in life.
Tackling the fear that will hold you back from doing those things is another story, but the short answer is to walk right through it.
Changing jobs just for the sake of change will not help, either. Your actions need purpose... without purpose there is no fulfilment.
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^ This is the best advice so far in this thread. You have little influence on those things out of your control but you do have the ability to better manage how you react and are impacted by them. The reason so many of us have trouble sleeping is that we don't deal effectively with the cycle of (usually negative) thoughts that rumble through our heads. You rewire your brain with new pathways, but as SeeGeeWhy suggests, it takes time.
Meditation is an immediate thing you can do with no investment other than time and a willingness to learn. It's the only (non-chemical) thing I know of that calms the inner voice and starts moving you to better patterns of thoughts.
Try this as a start for breathing: just sitting where you are, find a spot on the wall or an object 10 - 15 feet away, fix your eyes on it, inhale slowly for a five count, hold for a three count and exhale slowly over a five to seven count. Force yourself to do this for two minutes. There are all kinds of guided meditations on the net or at the google store / app store. If you look around you'll probably find something you like.
Next, I would recommend yoga or tai chi. On the yoga front, because you are a DDP Yoga aficionado, you are half way there.
And you don't need to be a Buddhist to do Tai Chi.
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EDIT: Oops, didn't see this was a random bump. Any hoo ...