Depending on your relationship with food, it may surprise you to learn that your diet impacts your ability to fall asleep and maintain sleep at night. By eating a healthy diet, low in processed foods, sugar, fat, and preservatives, you may find that you can stop the cycle of insomnia and improve your overall health.
Consider these guidelines for a healthy sleep diet:
Guided imagery is a meditation technique widely considered to assist with relaxation, stress relief and promoting good sleep.
It is a technique that usually starts with deep breathing and other deep breathing exercises.
I would not have believed it, but one of the stinkiest herbs I have ever smelled is also very effective as a cure for insomnia.
The Valerian Root herb has been used to treat insomnia for a very long time – according to some records, it was used as early as Hippocrates in 460BC. It was also noted back then that it has a rather unpleasant smell.
One of perhaps the more obvious causes of sleeplessness is tension. That feeling that you just can’t relax and feel ‘twitchy’ as you lie in bed trying to sleep.
As I mentioned in another post – the ‘trying’ part of that scenario is a problem, (check it out here), but this post is about the simple idea of relaxation and how you can do it.
As a child I have fond memories of bathtime. It was always filled with toys and occasional songs at the end of the day and was a great chance to hang out with my Mum, unwind and get ready for bed.
As we grow up, the rubber duckie is put away and we gain the independence to bath or shower ourselves. As adults, time pressures often mean that the time it takes for a bath is traded for other activities.
Perhaps it is time to bring the bath back? (and even your rubber duckie if you fancy it!)
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