Anxiety Insomnia: Develop Routines for Healthy Sleep
January 29th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
Insomnia is often a symptom of stress. Anxiety keeps your mind racing, so you can’t fall asleep. Or, if you do manage to get to sleep, you wake after a few hours.
The result? You drag through your days, feeling irritable. You’re unproductive at work, and act with all the charm of a wounded tiger at home.
You can get relief from your anxiety insomnia by taking a few simple steps to improve your lifestyle. When you eat better, exercise more, and go to bed earlier, you’ll overcome any tendency you have for insomnia.
Eat Right for Better Sleep
Eating foods rich in calcium during the day helps you to sleep better. Try drinking milk, and eating a couple of bananas. A glass of milk before bedtime is well known as a sleep aid, bananas are less well known. However when you eat bananas not only do you get a wealth of vitamins and minerals in the package, you also make the calcium in the milk more available to your body.
Try it: you’ll be pleased with the addition of bananas to your diet. Not only will you have more energy, you’ll fall asleep with ease.
Exercise Every Day to Remove Stress Hormones from Your System
When you’re stressed, stress hormones like adrenaline build up in your body. Over time, this can cause real damage, so it’s important to flush those hormones out of your system as soon as possible.
Exercise is the answer. Get out of bed earlier, and go for a half hour walk each morning. You’ll feel better right throughout the day, and will fall asleep with ease.
Early to Bed and Early to Rise
Set a bedtime for yourself, and stick to it. Make it an early bedtime: 11 o’clock at the latest. Think of it this way: sleep is essential for your body to repair itself, and for you to have energy to live your life. It’s called “beauty sleep” for a reason.
Once you get into a routine of going to bed at the same time every night, you’ll start to feel tired when that time draws near. You’re using your body’s natural processes to fight insomnia. It may take several weeks for your body to accept that 10PM is bedtime, but once it does, you’ve won your anxiety insomnia battle.
Anxiety insomnia is easily curable when you develop a healthy lifestyle. Try it.
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Insomnia cures made simple: develop a routine
January 28th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
Animals are smarter than people. When did you last see a dog with insomnia? My Jack Russell terrier, Honey, heads for her basket at 9PM, every night. If you’re suffering from insomnia, develop a routine, it will help you to fall asleep.
Hitting gym, balanced lifestyle essential for combatting insomnia - Features reports:
“Whether students are going to sleep at midnight or later, as long as they’re being consistent and getting seven-to-nine hours, they will function and focus properly, Thomas said. Without sleep, the body can weaken and the ability to calculate memory can be just as difficult as taking a test with no knowledge of the material.
‘Sleep is a normal physiological process that restores us physically, emotionally and intellectually,’ he said. ‘People who aren’t getting an adequate amount of sleep are less able to handle stress emotionally and physically.’”
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Insomnia Relief: End Insomnia Forever
January 27th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
If you’re lying awake night after night, you may feel that your torture will never end, and that you’ll never find insomnia relief. Let’s look at three relatively simple, drug-free methods which ensure that you drop off to sleep within minutes of your head hitting the pillow.
Sleep is a natural process. You can’t force yourself to sleep, and the more you struggle, the more you stay awake.
Stress is the commonest cause of insomnia in new sufferers. You may not even be aware that you’re under stress. Most of us are very good at coping, until finally the strain is too much, and our body objects.
1. Clear Your Mind — Write out Your Worries and What You’ll Do About Them
To relieve stress, take a few moments, and make a list of all your current worries. Include the complex worries (need to find a job) and well as the more mundane concerns (back door is sticking, need to call handyman).
Use a notepad, and rule a line down the center of the page. On the left of the page, you’ll write the worry, on the right, your solution. If you have no immediate solution, write some question marks — “???”
Take your time over this list. Every item you get onto the list is one less thing you have to worry about.
Although this process seems simple, it’s highly effective, because it gives you a sense of control.
2. Progressive Relaxation
When your body relaxes, so does your mind. The “fight or flight” response can’t work if you’re completely relaxed. If you’re new to progressive relaxation, you can download MP3 programs to help you to learn how to do it. It’s very simple, and just involves relaxing each part of your body in turn, until you’re so relaxed you feel boneless.
Focusing on parts of your body gives your left brain something to do, and it gets bored, so it relaxes its hold on your consciousness. Eventually, you’ll start to see images. These hypnogogic images are the precursor to sleep.
3. Herbal Remedies: Lavender, Valerian and Marjoram
Finally, try herbal remedies. You can use these in combination with other insomnia cures. Drink herbal teas throughout the day, especially in the afternoon and evening. Marjoram is highly sedative, so don’t use marjoram tea or essential oil if you’ll be driving.
Try these three options for insomnia relief. They’re simple, but very effective. You’ll be amazed at how quickly you fall asleep.
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