Sleeping for some people can be difficult and sometimes medications don’t help but add some problems. In order to be able to better good sleeping, change your habits towards sleeping as some of the things you are doing that is hindering good sleep.
A lot of things can cause one not to be able to sleep and they are stress, worry, depression which can also be as a result of health issues, finances, relationship problems etc. In order to sleep, one has to be able to calm themselves regardless of the situation life throws at them and make sure it doesn’t overwhelms them.
If worrying can save a problem, then it is very good to worry, but if it can’t do anything about the problem, it should be best left alone. With that said, here are these few ways to help you sleep well and also bring up ideas that will encourage good sleeping habit.
1. Change your body temperature
Taking a cold shower before going to bed will help your body relax during the hot period and hot water during cold period will help you calm your body and prepare it to sleep.
2. Minimize external distractions
What are the things that distract you from sleeping. Note them down and find a way to silence them before sleeping. If your neighbor drives in late and makes lot of noise wear ear plugs, if your partner that tends to switch the light on to do some reading before going to bed, wear a mask. Basically, do anything to cause you to sleep and sleep on time.
3. Purge your bedroom
Switch off your computers, T.V, no late night work to do, reading and piling reports etc. Except you are reading as a way to ease in sleep, other than that, as long as it is before going to bed, you should purge yourself off any activity that will hinder sleep.
4. Don’t torture yourself
Sometimes you do all off the above and none of it works. Simply bring yourself to doing what you want to do, like write an article, be it a poem, a story, how you are feeling, great things came out of sleepless night. So simply relax and allow your mind to wander and eventually sleep will come.
5. Exercise
Another way to get yourself sleepy is to exercise. Basically exhausting your body. The goal here is to make yourself so tired that all you want to do is lay down and sleep. It will take divine energy to actually get you to shower before sleeping. That kind of exhaustion. After such a rigorous exercise, take cold or hot showered depending on the weather and lay down.
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