Another piece of advice I received which has helped me tremendously: find a mattress, blanket and pillow that work for how you sleep. Softness, warmth, shape and breathability are different for each person, but old and worn things generally don't work for most people. You should enjoy where you sleep, and wake up rested and comfortable (acknowledging that cost is always a concern).
And of course the elephant in the room is ... sex.
Stop smirking, I am serious.
We all learned that the bedroom, and the bed within it, should be reserved for sleeping.
Unfortunately, the bed in the bedroom also happens to be the most convenient place to have sex. There is a reason why many languages use expressions like "go to bed with someone" or "sleep with someone" as euphemisms for "to have sex with someone".
Don't tell me there are other places you can have sex. I know. Partly from experience, even. But the bed in the (master, if you will) bedroom is THE most convenient place for live-in couples.
Critically underrated area of overall wellness! One tip I've learned is that, if your schedule necessitates some later evening exercise (because ill-timed exercise is still much better than no exercise!), you can definitely do some meditation or breathing to ramp down the activation of your sympathetic nervous system. I personally choose box breathing in the shower after evening workouts, and while my sleep isn't perfect, I get decent quality.
If you're just doing a low intensity walk, you might be fine anyway, as long as you don't eat late too!
I would add a few additional advice from my own path overcoming insomnia
1) Reduce overall caffeine intake, stop drinking colas, and no caffeine after 12pm
2) get teeth straightened, it helps with nose breathing and better sleep overall
3) keep screen devices out of bed/bedroom, books are fine
4) get enough exercise during the day
5) don't eat right before bed, avoid indigestion
6) if you wake up in the middle of the night dont look at the time and just try to fall asleep, if you cant fall asleep just rest as best as you can, forgiving yourself here is key to overcoming sleep/insomnia anxieties
7) get a job that doesn't require you to wake up too early or work at odd hours, easier said than done but is really important
The irony of me reading a post about the importance of sleep at 12pm😂. One of my big problems is that on the weekends and holidays I sleep late as I know that I can get away with waking up at 11am (that is why I am awake right now). However, as I have discovered it is not so easy to just switch between weekend schedule and weekday schedule and it usually leaves you sleep deprived for the first day or two.
I have learned there are three pillars of good health, eating well, sleeping well and exercising regularly. If all three of these are addressed in a serious way and committed to, everything else about your health will improve.
I totally get you. I found that I need about 9 hours of bed-time a night so I can get in about 7:30 of actual sleep (I'm an uneasy sleeper). It's fine if I come up short one night, but several nights in a row, and it becomes a problem. I try to maintain a somewhat consistent sleep pattern, and I see value in that, but I also see value in sleeping in an hour later on week-ends than on work days, and possibly going to bed a little later on the week-end nights before.
And I hardly ever wake up to an alarm. Part of which is that I am an uneasy sleeper so I wake up several times anyway, part of which is working from home which means I can go from bed to desk in seconds if need be so I can get up later than other people, part of which is simply getting enough shut-eye to begin with.
Getting a good night's sleep is extremely important for your well-being, both mentally and physically. And the last time you'll ever want to do is to lose sleep over work. Sleep is more important than work. Unless you are, like, physically starving and on the brink of being thrown out of your living space.
Another piece of advice I received which has helped me tremendously: find a mattress, blanket and pillow that work for how you sleep. Softness, warmth, shape and breathability are different for each person, but old and worn things generally don't work for most people. You should enjoy where you sleep, and wake up rested and comfortable (acknowledging that cost is always a concern).
And of course the elephant in the room is ... sex.
Stop smirking, I am serious.
We all learned that the bedroom, and the bed within it, should be reserved for sleeping.
Unfortunately, the bed in the bedroom also happens to be the most convenient place to have sex. There is a reason why many languages use expressions like "go to bed with someone" or "sleep with someone" as euphemisms for "to have sex with someone".
Don't tell me there are other places you can have sex. I know. Partly from experience, even. But the bed in the (master, if you will) bedroom is THE most convenient place for live-in couples.
How does one square that?
Critically underrated area of overall wellness! One tip I've learned is that, if your schedule necessitates some later evening exercise (because ill-timed exercise is still much better than no exercise!), you can definitely do some meditation or breathing to ramp down the activation of your sympathetic nervous system. I personally choose box breathing in the shower after evening workouts, and while my sleep isn't perfect, I get decent quality.
If you're just doing a low intensity walk, you might be fine anyway, as long as you don't eat late too!
I would add a few additional advice from my own path overcoming insomnia
1) Reduce overall caffeine intake, stop drinking colas, and no caffeine after 12pm
2) get teeth straightened, it helps with nose breathing and better sleep overall
3) keep screen devices out of bed/bedroom, books are fine
4) get enough exercise during the day
5) don't eat right before bed, avoid indigestion
6) if you wake up in the middle of the night dont look at the time and just try to fall asleep, if you cant fall asleep just rest as best as you can, forgiving yourself here is key to overcoming sleep/insomnia anxieties
7) get a job that doesn't require you to wake up too early or work at odd hours, easier said than done but is really important
Improving my sleep changed my life without a doubt
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As a high school student, I felt that whenever I got less than 7 hours of sleep my productivity dropped off considerably.
The irony of me reading a post about the importance of sleep at 12pm😂. One of my big problems is that on the weekends and holidays I sleep late as I know that I can get away with waking up at 11am (that is why I am awake right now). However, as I have discovered it is not so easy to just switch between weekend schedule and weekday schedule and it usually leaves you sleep deprived for the first day or two.
I have learned there are three pillars of good health, eating well, sleeping well and exercising regularly. If all three of these are addressed in a serious way and committed to, everything else about your health will improve.
I totally get you. I found that I need about 9 hours of bed-time a night so I can get in about 7:30 of actual sleep (I'm an uneasy sleeper). It's fine if I come up short one night, but several nights in a row, and it becomes a problem. I try to maintain a somewhat consistent sleep pattern, and I see value in that, but I also see value in sleeping in an hour later on week-ends than on work days, and possibly going to bed a little later on the week-end nights before.
And I hardly ever wake up to an alarm. Part of which is that I am an uneasy sleeper so I wake up several times anyway, part of which is working from home which means I can go from bed to desk in seconds if need be so I can get up later than other people, part of which is simply getting enough shut-eye to begin with.
Getting a good night's sleep is extremely important for your well-being, both mentally and physically. And the last time you'll ever want to do is to lose sleep over work. Sleep is more important than work. Unless you are, like, physically starving and on the brink of being thrown out of your living space.