Termyn8or
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BTW pink you have mail.
Anyway, on to your question.
The answer, a candle. After you light it, play with it a bit like blowing on it and such, start really looking at it.
Close your eyes for the first few minutes. When you open them stare at the flame. Start thinking, every step the flame takes in it's little dance is caused by air currents. You cause them. Every time you exhale or move a part of your body you affect the flame.
Try to reach a calm with the flame, and I didn't say it was easy. Stop moving, breathe very carefully. You can never stop affecting the flame no matter what you do, but try.
When you have reached calm with the flame, close your eyes and go to bed. Make damn sure the flame is safe. With your eyes closed take the image of the flame to bed with you. You do not need to know if the actual flame has burnt out yet, you only need the image.
As you lay there trying to sleep, concentrate on the flame. Or more aptly put, the image of the flame. Realize that now you can breathe freely without disturbing it. Realize what it actually is, a flame. Realize that you are part of a much bigger flame. Control your breathing even though you know you do not have to. Become friends with the image of the flame, make it part of you, like a sister or something. Embrace it in your mind.
This is all from a very old book, a book that changed my life. It explained how many things are, and you can't get it anymore. Go figure.
The book was called "The Occult" and I think my sister has it now. The very first words in the book were the definition of occult, it said simply : that which is hidden. Occult means nothing supernatural, and indeed I believe in my own mind that there really is nothing supernatural. It is hard to explain, but in time you get the idea. Even if St Peter really is at the pearly gates when you get there, it is a part of nature.
You could concievably just light a lighter or somethiung, but they burn out too quickly. You need time, time to just let it all go. Then you will sleep. The idea of this is to concentrate on one thing, something that is not solid or liquid.
I have to give you one warning though, you use this to get to sleep, if it works great, but if you keep doing it it will change your mind. I mean this is an excercise for sorcerers, if you keep doing it, you will find yourself changed. I would think for the better, but you need to consider that, consider if you want that.
And there is no turning back.
Everything in life fades, and eventually all that matters is the flame. All the threads in your mind align, and you are no longer afraid. You are no longer concerned about any occurrences outside of you and the flame, and the dynamic between. The flame is part of you, and you are a part of the flame.
All my science and technology is out the window now, because this is a different way of thinking. The flame controls you just as you control the flame. Don't breathe, in that way you give the flame it's own space so to speak. Try not to do anything. Try not to disturb the flame. After all it does not disturb you.
Consider it a challenge not to affect the flame in any way. This means not breathing on it, all of that. When the flame reaches a "calm", you reach a "calm" if you have connected with the flame.
Fire is considered a force by humans, and I guess it is. In this way it is not so much that you Master it, but you get in touch with it.
This is one of the most powerful mental exercises that you can do. Don't do it too much or you'll wind up like me, knowing more than you want to know. No the flame does not teach, but it inspires curiousity. Use it to sleep for now, take that one image of the flame to bed, later, if youi want to explore, do more.
I know a few more mental exercises like that, but really, I do not want to reveal them. This candle thing is pretty innocuous if it is not overdone. But really, if you start doing it every day, you may or may not like the changes in yourself. Do it twice a week max.
This technique tends to produce a vacuum in your mind, and no matter what your age, you will hunger for knowledge like a five year old. This is a one way street.
Actually now that I think of it, it only reveals a vacuum. It was already there in most people.
But I warn you now, it might take a couple of tries to do this, but once it is done, do not do it more than twice a week, if you do, well it doesn't really hurt you. But the knowledge you subsequently gain might. I wish I didn't know what I know, and I wish I were ignorant, so I could experience some bliss. I can't.
Twice a week no more. One month of this (twenty years ago) and I am so different, I mean I do not even feel human anymore. I advocate executions and all that. You get too far into this you will, to say the least, no longer be a social butterfly. If that is what you want, fine, but if it is not, stick to twice a week.
I have a couple of other tricks, but I decided to make this one public. Try not to misuse it.
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when i really can't sleep, i just do something else....shopping under the influence of insomnia is very bad though...
RE: Insomnia - 
That said, I have the same problem once a month. I've even stayed awake after taking a sleeping pill. I've been told it could be related to my period, and I've actually found that to be true. 
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