5 Tips For Fighting Off Insomnia
Posted by Katherine Crawford, M.S. on February 25th, 2010 filed in Sleep HealthChances are that you haven’t been getting the sleep you deserve. After all, we live in a society that puts sleep hygiene on the backburner. Are you feeling tired today?
Even worse, countless people live their life like zombies because of the most under-diagnosed sleeping disorder-sleep apnea. Perhaps you have been having a hard time getting a good nights’ sleep.
In any case, here is how to sleep like a pro:
1. Optimize your room: Your body produces melatonin when it’s time to go to bed. And one of the ways it kick-starts this production is with darkness and cool temperatures. So make sure your room is both dark and cold before you go to sleep. Just make sure you don’t make it too cold or else you will wake in the middle of the night.
2. Don’t let fake light hit your eyes before bed: Using a laptop or watching TV can not only cause emotional arousal before bed, but can also send false awake signals to your pineal gland. So make sure you minimize the use of electronics right before bed so that you don’t disrupt your sleeping cycles.
3. Block out noise: You could use ear plugs here. However, many times they will fall out and most of them are not very comfortable by any stretch of the imagination. I recommend getting a sound conditioner that can produce white noise so that you can sleep like a baby.
4. Don’t wrap yourself up like a mummy: When you first fall asleep you may not feel hot. However, as the night progresses and heat collects, you may begin to sweat. And recall that high temperatures make you more awake. Not good if you really want to sleep well.
5. Don’t wake up late on the weekends: Your internal biological clock is sensitive during the week and during weekends. Thus, every time you sleep in on the weekend, you are sending mixed signals to your biological clock. Thus, it behooves you to wake up and fall asleep at the same time all the time.
Now getting sleep is not only vital for your day to day living, but also vital to fight off serious disease like cancer. So please take action on the tips in this article sooner rather than later. You see, later usually never comes!