How can I get to sleep after a really stressful day?
Learn practical tips and relaxation techniques to help you unwind and calm your mind, even after the most challenging days.
Transcript
Mistake number one is trying to fall asleep. Because that's part of the problem. You can't-- sleep isn't something you can just will
to happen. And the minute you start trying to will it to happen, you're going down a pathway for insomnia.
Sleep is something you have to-- you have to position yourself properly to have it happen. You've got to go to bed at the right time
when your body's clock is primed for sleep. And that can get dysregulated for all sorts of reasons. But you've got to be able to wind down.
Too much what people do is they don't have any lying down rituals at night anymore. And we're plugged in 24/7. We're texting right before bed.
And our body is not designed to just switch off like that. Now, some people that I am envious of are good sleepers, and they can drink a gallon of coffee and text
right up to bedtime and crash. But there are genetic aspects to this. But there are many people who really need to wind down
in a very kind of methodic way.
It needs to be a time for you. So I would say make it personal. Do something that you enjoy that's not so stimulating that you're going to get activated, you know.
And so for some people, you know, if they go on the internet, forget it. They're going to be, you know, surfing for two hours.
And it's too stimulating. A lot of people like to read. That seems to work for people. What I'd recommend is people don't do it in their bedrooms.
They pick a spot where the lights are low, maybe even a chair. And they just reserve their bedroom for sleep and only sleep.
And that just sort of sets up the bedroom as a stimulus, or a cue, for sleeping.
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