Make Your Insomnia Sleep....

“30% of people sleep for less than 6 hours on an average”
In today's fast moving era, lifestyle has completely changed and such a change has brought a change in sleep pattern globally. The recommended duration of sleep in 24 hours period is 7–8 hours but recent data shows the above mentioned fact which is not so comforting at all. Sleep deprivation is called insomnia.Insomnia is, basically, difficulty falling asleep, even when a person has the chance to do so. People suffering from insomnia feel dissatisfied with their lives and work.

If you are suffering frominsomnia there are many ways with which you can help yourself beating insomnia. These ways range from changing your lifestyle to changing your ambience. These are:

1.Waking up at the same time

Weekends may bring you mornings when you would not like to wake up early at all and especially when your week had been a hectic one. However, if you practice such a pattern you are likely to suffer frominsomnia. You should get up at the same time every day to train your body to wake up at a particular time.

2.Say No to Caffeine

Caffeine not onlycauses difficulty for you in making you fall sleep, but may also cause frequent awakenings. As far as other fluids such as alcohol is concerned, it too may have a sedative effect for few hours after consumption and it can then lead to frequent arousals. One must avoid such fluids in order to fight insomnia.

3.Maintain a sleep schedule

It is important for us to maintain a regular sleep pattern andwe must train our bodies to stick to that particular pattern or schedule to have a healthy sleeping pattern.

4.Exercise or workout

Exercising regularly improves not only the quality of your sleep but also lets you sleep better for longer duration. Finish yourexercise at leastthree hours before you plan to go for sleep.

5.No extra activities in bed

Your bed is only for sleeping and keep it to use for that purpose only. Restrict the activities such as studying, making phone calls , watching television or listening to the radio to be performed while in bed or bedroom.

6.No eating or drinking before bedtime

Having your dinner late at night initiates or makes your digestive system active and this can upset your sleep. Also, drinking before bed may fill up your bladder and make you rush to bathroom frequently.

7.Comfortable sleep environment

Various aspects of your bedroom such as its temperature, lighting and ventilation should be properly maintained to make it conducive to falling asleep. Also your bed should be comfortable; bed sheets should be neat and clean.

8.Reduce stress

There are a number of therapies to relax oneself and stress reduction methods to reduce stress of mind and body examples deep breathing, mediation etc. These methods must be used before going to bed to forget the worries of the world.