Tips for a Better Nights Sleep

Tip 1: Calm Down Before You Go to Sleep

We all have a lot going on these days with work, kids, and all types of other stresses. Before you go to sleep you need to take a few minutes to cool down and relax from the pressures and events of the day. This doesn’t have to be any big meditation session or anything like that. You just simply need to take ten to fifteen minutes to relax before you actually lie down and fall asleep. If you try to go immediately from 100 mile per hour to zero, you might initially fall asleep but chances are you will rise sometime during the night. Doing this routinely will also help your body prepare for sleep each night. Your body will become accustomed to going into sleep mode after your cool down period. This will also help with getting a good nights sleep.

Tip 2: If you Wake Up During the Night, Don’t Worry About It

If you find yourself waking up during the night, don’t worry about it. Most people believe that once they have awakened they have ruined their sleep for the night. That’s not true. There are a couple of things you want to do if you find yourself awake at an early hour. First, don’t look at the clock to see what time it is. All this does is make you more awake, and that is definitely not what you want. You actually don’t want to do anything that is going to cause to think, or cause you to become more awake. The best thing to do is to just lay there and thing very soothing thoughts. Something that you know will put you right back to sleep. The key is to get back to sleep as quickly and seamlessly as possible.

Tip 3: If You Can’t Fall Asleep, Get Out of Your Room

If you have gone through your pre sleep ritual, and you are laying in bed and you don’t fall asleep in fifteen minutes you should leave your room. Staying in your room laying there and not falling asleep could cause you to have some issues down the road. If this happens repeatedly it is possible that you could begin to associate your room and specifically your bed with a bad sleeping place. So, if you have been laying there for 15 minutes and cannot fall asleep you should get up out of bed, trying not to turn any bright lights on, and go into another room. The reason you don’t want to turn any bright lights on is because you don’t want to wake anymore that you currently are. Once you are in the other room you should do something that relaxes you. Maybe listen to some soothing music, or do some breathing exercises, or even go through your pre-sleep routine again. Only when you feel yourself getting sleepy should you go back into your room.