A trick that would allow my mind to rest easily and for me to sleep.

They're best told in words that allow the listener's mind to make of them what it will.

It allows my mind to work and think about things.

Not that it would have been technically hard, and he allowed his mind to consider the method.

He allowed his mind to fall in with the pattern of the words.

Allow her mind to drift beyond that, and she'd lose whatever control over the situation she had.

Breathing was the only thing she would allow her mind to settle on.

The only two ways she would allow her mind to approach what had happened were deliberately vague.

She even allowed her mind to drift back to Nick.

He allowed his mind to wander back over the events of the past week.