You fall asleep fine. Then an ache wakes you at 3 a.m.

Here are the seven places I press on the edge of my bed, about 15 minutes before I lie down — and what I do when something wakes me anyway. One page and one photo per point.

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What usually wakes you?

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An ache that shows up once I stop moving. Cold feet, or a cold room. Getting up for the bathroom. My mind starts running the moment I wake. I wake stiff and sore before it is light. My hands are too sore to press for long.

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What's inside

Seven places, from between your eyebrows down to your inner ankle. One page and one clear photo each.
How I press: find the area, hunt for the spot that stings — that's the one. Stay on it, small circles, one to three minutes.
The 3 a.m. page: when something wakes you, sit up, keep warm, and press two spots on your arm for one slow minute each.
A 21-night tick sheet, in large print. Prints on an ordinary home printer.

Try point 1 tonight, before it even arrives

Sit on the edge of your bed. Put one fingertip on the flat spot right between your eyebrows, at the top of the bridge of your nose. Hunt for the spot that stings — that's the one. Stay on it with slow, small circles for one minute, eyes closed.

"I have studied Vietnamese acupressure for fifteen years. This is the routine I do myself, sitting on the edge of my bed." — Nguyen Duy Phong. More than 315,000 people follow his work, and he has made more than 500 videos on YouTube.

"Even just 5 minutes is a Godsend." — a reader, on pressing at home and "the relief I am getting"

A reader of 73, with knees she calls "bone on bone", has been pressing her hands for a few months. In her words: "it helps the mind too to be able to do something to help herself feel better."

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