Tired of tossing and turning around on your bed for hours every night? Fed up with battling insomnia? Sick of feeling groggy as you attempt to attack each and every day? Well, guess what? It’s time to step up to the plate and start working through your difficulties with sleep. Here are 4 tips to help you jump start the process.
Identify the Problem
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, dismiss your insomnia as being “normal”, something that everybody experiences from time to time. While millions of people in the world deal with sleeplessness, that does not mean that it shouldn’t be addressed proactively. A chronic problem with sleeplessness can and will affect your health, so allowing it to remain unaddressed for too long can make you look and feel older, affect your memory, and leave you feeling extremely grumpy on a daily basis.
Get into a Healthy Routine
You need to ensure that you’re putting your mind and body on the right track; you want to set yourself up for success, and a great way to do this is by forming a routine. Try to go to bed at or around the same time every night. While this may prove to be difficult when you are first establishing your new routine (perhaps during the first week), this habit will pay long-term dividends in helping you to battle sleeplessness. Your body will slowly but surely become accustomed to feeling tired at a regular time.
Avoid Certain Foods and Drinks Near Bedtime
Trust me, I love roaming around the kitchen looking for midnight snacks just as much as the next guy, but it’s important to evaluate the practice. What’s more important to you: having that piece of cake with a coffee or having a good night of sleep? Certain sugary foods and caffeinated drinks require time for their chemicals to be digested by the body. So, if you need your daily fix of sugar or caffeine, make sure that you do not consume these chemicals within 4-5 hours of your bedtime. That will give the body sufficient time to digest and process, so you can catch your snooze on time.
Get Professional Insight
Many times, people will identify that they having a sleeping problem but they refuse to address it proactively, or sometimes, they will attempt to combat the sleeplessness to no avail. This may be a great time to pull in a health professional. Your physician can hep you to pinpoint the severity of the issue and can offer sound advice as to how you can rid yourself of insomnia completely. Remember health professionals are in place for a reason, so it’s important and wise for us to leverage these resources effectively!
There you go, 4 steps to a more rested you! I hope this article is helpful and, as always, if you have any questions around how you can improve your sleeping habits, feel free to reach out to me at shomo@shomoshotime.com. Bang bang!