Tips for Sleeping Better at Night

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Suffering from insomnia or other sleeping issues can be really difficult. There is nothing worse than feeling tired all day long as you struggle to get through work and any other responsibilities that you may have. For those of you that are wanting to sleep better at night, here are 3 tips for getting a good night’s sleep:

 

1.  Be consistent with your schedule- One of the best things that you can do to get a better night’s sleep is to be consistent with your schedule. You need to set a bedtime for yourself and then stick to it. If you are constantly going to bed at different times every night it makes it hard for your body to get into a rhythm. Your body will begin to adapt to your new bedtime if you are consistent and you will find that it gets easier and easier to fall asleep every day.

2.  Make the room comfortable- Another really important thing that you need to do in order to make sure you get a good night’s sleep is make the room really comfortable. You want to make sure that the temperature is just right so that you aren’t uncomfortably warm or cold. Being too hot or too cold can cause you to wake up throughout the night and ruin your precious sleep. You should also make sure that the room is dark enough so that you aren’t distracted by any light. Next you’ll want to focus on the bed itself. Are the sheets clean? When was the last time you bought a new mattress? If you are trying to sleep on dirty sheets or an old uncomfortable mattress you could be working harder to sleep than necessary.

3.  Fight early sleepiness- Something that a lot of people face is an onset of sleepiness way before they are supposed to be going to sleep. If you let yourself fall asleep right after dinner or long before you are supposed to go to bed, you’ll most likely wake up again before morning leaving you with tons of energy and difficulty going back to bed again. On the other hand if you are feeling sleep near your bed time you need to hit the sheets, otherwise you may get a second wind which can make you want to stay up much later than you should. One of the ways that you can fight early sleepiness if by doing something and being active. If you feel your eyes getting heavy then you should consider getting up and walking around, or doing something to keep you awake until your bed time.

 

It may take a couple weeks for you to get into the groove and really get the most out of your new routine, so be patient.

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