If you’re not currently getting a good night’s sleep, what can you do about it?
After all, we all need sleep to help us maintain our health.
Obviously you could resort to sleeping pills and potions. But you should only use these in the short term, if at all, you shouldn’t rely on them for too long. Just read the small print that comes with them if you don’t believe me.
So what are the natural options available to help you get a good night’s sleep, even if you’re stressed or otherwise wound up?
Start by making your bed time a routine. If you go to bed at approximately the same time each night, your body will start to get the idea that maybe that’s the time you go to sleep.
Make sure your bedroom temperature isn’t too hot or too cold. Generally, most people sleep better if it’s cooler. With the ups and downs in temperature that we seem to be experiencing recently, it’s very easy for your bedroom temperature to be “wrong” - get into the habit of checking it long enough before you think you’re going to go to sleep so that you can make any changes needed.
Don’t sweat it if you can’t get to sleep. It’s not unusual that the more we focus on not being able to sleep, the more of a self fullfilling prophecy it becomes. Distract yourself. Find something to do other than thinking about not getting to sleep. Maybe a quiet, relaxing track playing in the background. Maybe the television - but not anything too taxing. Or read a chapter or two of a novel.
Allow your brain time to unwind before you go to sleep. Your brain doesn’t have an on/off switch like a PC. It needs time to slow down. So it’s not realistic to expect your mind to make the dramatic change from being active to going to sleep as though you’re flicking a switch.
Use a hypnosis track to help you slowly and naturally drift off to sleep.
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