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Tips for falling asleep?
Hey ladies - the past couple of weeks I have had the darnedest time falling asleep and/or staying asleep at night. There's no excessive noise or distractions, I just find myself wide awake at night.
Aside from arming myself with bottles of Nyquil and Tequila (kidding!) does anyone have any good tips for getting myself into sleep mode? I'm sick of missing bootcamp in the morning! Oh, and if it matters, I try to go to bed around 9 to get up at 5. Sometimes its 9:30. I do not drink any caffiene after lunch. Sometimes I eat heavy dinners, but not too bad.
Re: Tips for falling asleep?
I'm a firm believer now. Having tracked my restless nights with my cycle they go hand in hand. I find myself awake multiple times a night during this time.
Either way, that's not what you asked.
I love having my kindle handy. I lie in bed comfortably and simply read until I fall asleep. After 10 minutes of inactivity it turns itself (and the reading light) off. Then if I wake up in the middle of the night for an extended period of time I pick it up again where I left off before I dose off again.
Another thing is don't think about it. Just get up and be productive. You'll get tired and go back to bed.
Counting backwards from 300 by 3's. It requires so much concentration that you can't think about all those lists running through your head. I never make it past 200.
Also, I sleep the best when I exercise at night. I know it's not for everyone (and one of the reasons you want to get up in the morning is to work out), but seriously, even a light, 30 min workout, followed by a hot shower right before bed, is heaven.
This is a form of passive progressive muscle relaxation, there's also an active form (physically tensing/releasing specific muscle groups) that is really effective as well. There are CDs that have these exercises, along with other visualization or guided meditation style exercises. Great for anxiety or helping your mind calm down at the end of the day. The active progressive muscle relaxation is awesome for helping your muscles to release tension and relax. I know walmart sells the CDs online for cheap, sometimes libraries will have them too - just make sure you're not getting a cd that is only background noise.
I plan on using something similar to help prep for and deal with labor/delivery. My mom used a visualization cd focused on healing prior to her knee surgery and used less anesthesia and pain medications than expected!
This is a good idea. I'm usually quite lethargic in the evenings. Plus I imagine this would help my weight loss.
Great ideas, ladies! I have no Kindle, so I will just try the exercise and then muscle relaxing techniques tonight, thanks!
Thanks for posting this, that's really interesting! I also used a cd like that for my labor and delivery, it was the Hypnobirthing cd. I hope that whatever you use is helpful for you, too... I know that repeating the phrases in my head really helped me in L&D.