My first experienced of insomnia started when I was in college. Too much sleeping during school break and one night, couldn't fall asleep. My sister told me I'd go crazy and I believed her. Since then, I had trouble sleeping, had palpitations, my back felt hot, and my body was just tensed. I remembered I had not sleep even an hour for almost 7 days. I went back to school very tired and unhappy. My mom took me to a psychiatric doctor who gave me sleeping meds but I felt tired and groggy the next day. I felt so hopeless. I walked into a church crying my heart out, then an old lady approached and said she will pray for me. She invited to a Christian fellowship and I thought, that helped relieved some of my fear and stress. I was able to finish my bachelor's degree by getting into a routine, making sure I sleep before 10 pm and avoided staying up late. Fast forward, 3 years ago, I had bad colds and flu with productive cough. It kept me awake and since then, it brought back the bad memories I had in the past. I started panicking, tensed, fearful of going to my bed knowing that I will be tossing and turning. I did not have any palpitations but I felt very anxious and afraid. I went online and check out for any helped that I could like sleeping hygiene, relaxing music, took herbal teas for relaxation, yoga and all but it never really get rid of my anxiety in insomnia. Finally, I found a story online about this guy who had really bad experience and what stood out in his story was he said that '' he finally pretended that he has no insomnia". I also read something about ' what you think, your sub conscious mind will expand". But of course, I prayed hard to God to get rid of my fear and anxiety about insomnia. Then, every time I feel anxious ( having butterfly feeling in my stomach and hard to breath) , I repetitively say that God has healed me''. I asked for prayers from my friends and pastors which gave me the feeling of peace knowing that I have people praying for me. Then, gradually I noticed that I have eventually able to have 6-9 hours of sleep. Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night , I just condition my mind to relax and shut my mind until I fall asleep. Whenever I have some days of having a hard time initiating a sleep or waking up and unable to fall back right away, I just talk to myself that this is just temporary, just relax, think of having good dreams. It does work for me ! I did not want to take any sleeping pills because I don't like the side effects. I am very thankful to God because his words have helped me a lot about thinking of positive thoughts only, noble, pure, and worthy thoughts.