8 Ways To Stop Overthinking Before Bedtime
Insomnia and problems getting to sleep can wear a person out and destroy their whole lifestyle that’s why it's good to know you can prevent many sleep problems by taking control of being relaxed late at night.
By overthinking late at night we can destroy the next day.
Because we are taking from the time we need to perform at our best.
Instead, we need to welcome the night as it comes and knows it will help prepare us for what we have ahead. By having a good night’s sleep we can do this properly.
But before we do we have to have good habits in place so we don’t avoid falling asleep.
Here are 8 ways you can stop thinking so you can fall asleep every night:
1. Prepare for bed hours beforehand.
Sleeping is one of the greatest things you can do for your body. Although most people take it for granted getting restful sleep is extremely beneficial for you so you need to make sure you prepare to welcome it long before you walk up to your stairs to your bed. If you can have a routine of going to bed at a certain time every night then you`ll be doing yourself a great favor in regulating your sleeping pattern every night.
You need to design your day so that you are more active at the beginning of the day and less active in the evening.
In the late evening and as you enter into the night time you must be careful to be conscious that it’s coming close to your bedtime and you need to start to wind down things accordingly.
2. Be careful about your language regarding how you explain to others or to yourself that you ‘can’t fall asleep.
Because once a person begins to have difficulty with sleeping it can become very annoying.
Your brain gets overtired and your decision-making can become erratic. You may even become irritable. A person can lose control of how they think about things and that makes it challenging to think positively and avoid giving attention to negative thoughts.
That’s why we need to slow down what we say to others. In doing so we are making sure we carefully chose the words we use so that you can avoid feeding yourself with thoughts and sentences that will reinforce the problem of not sleeping in the first place! By thinking ‘ you can’t’ and then saying ‘you can’t’ feeds your subconscious brain that ‘you can’t’ and ‘you won’t’. Then when it comes to sleeping at night that subconscious brain takes over and guess what happens?
You can’t sleep!
3. Get up very early every morning.
It’s not easy to get up early every morning if you can’t sleep at night. But you must if you are to break the cycle of not sleeping. Because if you can’t sleep there is nothing worse than lying on a bed for hours on end and wondering about why you can’t nod off.
Instead, you need to get up early and at least get one of the benefits from not being able to sleep and that is being able to work when others are still sleeping.
From there you need to distract your brain with work so you won’t build up a negative thought pattern around sleeping. And in being up early you are coordinating your body with the morning light so you`ll tire later on in the day when it’s better time to be in bed.
4. Go to the gym and get tired by physically working out every day.
Because too many people avoid working out regularly. But if you commit yourself to working out you`ll make sure you`ve used all your physical ability to decrease your energy by the end of the day. In doing so you`ll get a wave of tiredness at the right time which can be used to relax later on.
Once you can do that you can get into sleep mode.
5. Avoid eating 3–5 hours before you go to bed.
As diet is hugely important.
Not only what you eat but when you eat.
By eating close to bedtime you`re forcing your digestive system to switch on. Butt in reality your body must be in a fully relaxed state so it doesn’t have to work overtime.
And if you have to eat late at night you have to avoid eating foods that disagree with your system. Because certain foods will keep your up and others will be too difficult to digest when you lie down to fall asleep after eating.
6. Imagine you`re sleeping in a different bed.
Although we are trying to shut off our brains from thinking by imagining things we are using our brains to their capacity. This may seem very counterproductive but it’s not. Instead, our brains work by concentrating on one way of thinking.
When you are fully focused on one way of thinking only you are unable to think in another way so the brain strives to be efficient in how it works.
By imagining a relaxed place to sleep and a nice easy lifestyle late at night you are shutting off your analytical thinking powers and allowing your imagination to bring you on a restful trip away from all your worldly stresses.
7. Avoid going to bed until you yawn.
Although there are many theories on why we yawn it can be synonymous with when it’s time for us to go to sleep. Once you yawn make sure you`re prepared to go to sleep and it’s time to shut your brain off from all of the outside world.
8.Turn out all the lights and electronic devices a couple of hours before you go to bed.
In modern life, there are many electronic lights, devices, gadgets, and things that take our attention. Our brain is challenged to keep us up in an alert status when all of these things are on.
By turning them off hours before bedtime you are making sure you are giving yourself a chance to be more relaxed and have fewer distractions to feed your analytical thoughts.
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