It's distressing to be completely exhausted and unable to relax and have a good night's sleep. The more you toss around the more stressed you become and the more you toss around. There are various ways that can help in preventing sleepless nights and it is worth learning about it. Is it? I know I have troubles to fall a sleep and eventually sleep. I can be awake for hours, and in the morning I get sleepy when I have to wake up. I always hate that.
Someone told me that quietly relaxing in the latter part of the evening is most helpful in preparing for a restful sleep. Exercise is stimulating and if done approaching bedtime, might put you in a wide awake state.
Trying to put yourself to sleep seems to have the opposite effect. Instead of clamping your eyes tight, try leaving them open to roam the room. Fixing them on an insignificant object can take even more pressure off. In many cases people don't need as much sleep as they think they do. If you consider that you could manage well with less, there will be less effort on trying to get to sleep. Removing the necessity will often relax you, make you feel better, and allow you to drift off. Anyway, your body tells you, how tired you are to fall a sleep. Maybe in time you are too tired to fall asleep, but eventually you do fall asleep.
When wide-eyed and thrashing about during the night, sometimes a change of scene and thoughts works. This can be helpful in salvaging a night's sleep: Get out of bed, have a wash, make a hot non-alcohol drink, and watch TV or read for awhile. I prefer some boring book....
Try to enjoy it and don't rush back. Often in a half to one hour drowsiness comes, with the mind cleared of whatever was buzzing in there. An hour lost from bed could very well be followed with a short but restful night's sleep.
Alcohol may help you to relax and go to sleep, but it is usually only short term, and the net result is less sleep overall. Most people find that taking nightcaps results in waking up at two or three in the morning, and an alcohol induced sleep is not usually a relaxed sleep.So, that's not such a marvellous idea, right?
Being free of constant stress and worry during the day and evening is pretty well a necessity for happy living, and for a good night's sleep. So try to establish a program to reduce your anxieties in life.
So, good night and sleep well. :-)
Hi! This is Alison from Facebook. I know this is several days old but man does this fit me recently! I'll be completely exhausted at night but then lay down and just wide awake for some reason. Nothing's helped, not pills or even drinking some sleepy time tea. I finally just decided to stay up and let my body tell me when to go to bed and it worked. Good advice, though, about trying your best to be stress free! Easier said than done, at times, unfortunately. Anyway I like your blog and am now following it! I have one here too if you'd like to follow.
ReplyDeleteThanks sweetie, I do hope you can got o sleep now more easily....I have the same problem for ages :-) But it doesn't bother me really. I know many things are easy to say but so damn hard to do them. but we must have the faith and do it so quickly ;-) Take care, ...soon I will post more of my thinking. ;-)
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