TIps for healthy sleep

Posted by Donna Lien
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Jul 31, 2009
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People should wake up every morning feeling refreshed and energetic without the need of an alarm clock. This may be possible if you have a good healthy sleep at night. Here some tips:

1. Have a regular bed that is comfortable. Also maintain regular schedule for sleeping and waking up, even on weekends. Try going to bed at the same time and getting up at the same time every day. Maintaining this time schedule is very important. This helps in overcoming sleep problems.

2. Create a sleep-conducive environment that is dark, quiet, comfortable, cool relaxing.

3. Finish your dinner atleast 2-3 hours before sleeping.

4. Avoid nicotine, caffeine and other stimulants which can be found in coffee, tea, soft drinks, cigarettes, chocolate etc.

5. Regular exercise can help in maintaining good health and can also be useful for good sleep. But remember to finish your workout atleast a few hours before your bedtime.

6. Keep your bedroom at a comfortable temperature, neither too hot nor too cold.

7. If you have the habit of waking up in the middle of the night and looking at your clock, it is advisable to turn away the clock from your eyes so that you have to turn it back in order to see the time and you may decide not to go through that trouble and may soon overcome this habit.

8. Nutritional food like green vegetables and fresh fruits can help in improving the quality of your sleep.

9. An old-fashioned remedy is to take two teaspoons of cider vinegar with two teaspoons of honey in a glass of warm water.

10. Footbaths in lukewarm water can help in inducing sleep.

11. Free your mind from worries as they can prevent you from having a restful sleep. Leave office work at office, do not spend more than 3-5 minutes thinking about the day's problems while you are in bed, avoid having arguments with somebody in the evenings as they can interfere with your sleep at night.

12. If you have a long list of things to do and your mind is constantly thinking about them then one of the best ways to free up your mind is to write down each important task on a piece of paper, next to each task you may write down a future date and time when you want to deal with it. Writing them down will help in uncluttering your mind so that you can now peacefully go to sleep.

Hope you will find the above tips useful for having a peaceful and relaxing sleep at night. Do not forget to check out more tips at my blog.


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