Sleep Well! It makes everything work better....
Herbs can help a great deal in assisting you with getting a good night’s sleep. If you are like millions of folks around the world you have moments when you can’t sleep. If you are looking up at the ceiling in the middle of the night contemplating everything under the sun when it is sleeping and you should be, know that there are plenty of others doing the same. About 70% of Americans say they have a problem with sleep and often spend many a sleepless night worrying about all sorts of things. Economic woes are often one of the primary topics of thought in those wee hours and yet if you do not sleep well you stand a much better chance of performing poorly at work and even potentially losing your job. Three out of every four American adults report sleeping less than 8 hours a night, and the phenomenon is not getting any better. What illustrates the problem even more is that one out of every five adults say they sleep less than 6 hours a night.
Lack of sleep does makes you cranky as well as tired and can cause a worsening of cognitive, emotional, and medical conditions such as anxiety, heart disease, diabetes, depression, obesity, hypertension, as well as memory and immune dysfunction. It can also quickly become a public-safety concern with all the thousands of traffic and other accidents it causes every year. What is less well known however is that sleep-deprived drivers doing lab-driving simulations, perform worse than drunk drivers. In studies with college students who were persistently and intentionally deprived of sleep, after three days of this lab controlled study where the students were not allowed to fall asleep, the students all demonstrated higher blood pressure, cholesterol levels and prediabetic or even diabetic numbers with regards to their sugar levels.
How to conquer the sleeplessness demon!
There are several strategies you can use to assure or at least improve your chances of getting a good night’s sleep.
1. Sleeptime.
Try to turn in at about the same time each night and wake up at about the same time each morning, even on weekends. Your body does best with a regular go to sleep-wake up routine.
2. Avoid food, caffeine and strong drinks before bedtime.
Try to abstain from food and drinks other than water for at least 3 hours before going to bed. Avoid drinking booze late. While it can relax you at first you can often become wide-awake later and then find it hard to get back to sleep. What is more it is toxic for your liver.
3. Learn how to calm your body and mind.
Deep slow breathing or soft music can help as can visualizing calm tranquil memories or imagined places of tranquility.
4. Stay active
Exercise aerobically such as brisk walking as many days as you can. A good workout should you end up too out of breath to have a conversation. For most folks it is better to workout in the morning or afternoon.
5. Make your bedroom a place of rest.
Make sure your bedroom environment is conducive to sleep. It should be dark, quiet, cool, and uncluttered. What can be the most helpful is to keep the light out with blackout shades or by hanging thicker curtains. You should also keep all sources of light turned off or hidden, such as alarm clocks.
6. Use your bedroom wisely.
Avoid brain-stimulating activities in the bedroom, such as watching TV, working on the computer or talking on the phone. Make your bedroom a place of rest and sleep.
Let sleep happen naturally and if it is hard in coming after all these suggestions above try some gentle yet effective herbal remedies to calm you down and help you sleep such as Relax and Destress and Sleep Right herbal remedies, two of my favorites.
Sleep Right helps you get a good night’s sleep, while relax and destress keeps you calm throughout the day, soothing your stress so it is easier to be in the right frame of mind to sleep.
