eat<\/a> late, your body starts metabolizing the food. When your body starts processing food, your body actually heats up. Your heart beats faster to push the blood needed in the right areas. Things are moving and shaking in order to get things digested properly. When you sleep, your body is supposed to be slowing down, not speeding up. Try to stop eating after 7p at night in order to give your body a few hours to digest. This will allow your body to properly slow down when you try to go to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStop Watching TV Before Bed<\/strong> – Again, the idea of sleep is to slow down your body. If you stay up late watching TV, your mind isn’t given the chance to wind down. It is too busy trying to ingest the content, and colors, and subjects, and ads and everything else that TV does to your body. Then you try to immediately flip the switch in your brain and sleep? Your brain is wanting more! So you end up tossing and turning. Limit your TV watching all the way up until an hour before you go to bed in order to properly wind your mind down.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStop Working Out Before Bed<\/strong> – A workout before bed is better than no workout at all, but when you work out, your body gets cranked up. Your heart rate is accelerated for a while, your blood is pumping through your muscles and it takes a while to wind down. Try to get all your workout in AT LEAST<\/em> 3-4 hours before bed (just workout in the morning!).<\/p>\n\n\n\nStart Winding Down Before Bed<\/strong> – Reading the above items that you should STOP doing, one common aspect in all of them is the fact that if your body is in a state where it is doing work (trying to metabolize food, or recovering from a workout), it is hard to fall asleep. Get into a routine where you allow your body to wind down. De-stress from the take, practice some deep breathing, read a book, do things that slow your body down.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStart Creating The Perfect Sleeping Environment<\/strong> – Your sleeping environment helps your sleeping. Your sleeping environment is your bedroom. How many of you actually use your bedroom as strictly as a bedroom? I know countless people who have a TV in their bedroom, or a computer, or an iPad. Your bedroom should be your sleeping sanctuary. It should be a relaxing space to where you know you are going to be able to wind down, not catch up on Oprah. Create a dark environment, ensure the temperature is right, get a good mattress and covers, and please – get the TV out of the bedroom!<\/p>\n\n\n\nStart Getting More Sun<\/strong> – Your body is supposed to have a natural sleep and wake cycle. Before we became an electronic society, people actually got up with the sun and went to sleep when they were tired. Now, we go to bed a specific time to be blasted out of bed by a screaming alarm clock. And to make it even worse, we get into our dark cars, go into our offices with artificial light, then back home without seeing the sun. Get outside and get your body to truly realize that you are awake. Then when you sleep in the darkroom (See the environment above!), you can start resetting your natural sleep\/wake cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStart Getting Into A Routine<\/strong> – I understand that life gets in the way of doing a lot of things. But one major thing you can do in your life is to get into a routine at night. Start winding down at the same time every night. Turn the lights out at the same time every night. Train yourself to sleep at the same time. Wake up at the same time every day. This will get your body to be able to fall asleep and wake up at the same time, getting the proper amount of sleep every night in order to rejuvenate your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWith little steps in your life, you can improve your sleeping habits. If you improve your sleeping habits, you will have improved energy throughout the day. And remember, your body is the perfect science experiment. Just because one thing works for one person, doesn’t mean that it will work for you. Try a few different things outs till you find the perfect solutions. Try different routines at night. Try different relaxation techniques. Try different blankets. Try anything and everything till you find something that works for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sleeping is an aspect of your health that many people overlook. Everyone knows to try to get 8-hours of sleep each night. Knowing that and getting that are two separate things. There are some people who try to get that, but toss and turn all night, or wake up in the middle of the night, […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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