What Is  Keeping You Up At Night?

Do you often find yourself watching the wee morning hours tick by as you struggle to get to sleep? Being unable to get the amount of sleep you need can affect many other areas of your life. So, what’s keeping you from catching your forty winks?

Although a drink or two before you go to bed can be relaxing enough to send you straight off to sleep, when your body has processed the alcohol and it’s no longer in your system you may experience withdrawal symptoms.

This can in turn disrupt your sleep because the body metabolises alcohol quite fast. While not drinking at all before bed is sometimes not an option, making sure your last drink is roughly four hours before bedtime is a good way to avoid a disrupted sleep due to alcohol.

Watch What You Eat

Other things you put on and in your body before bed can also affect how easily you fall asleep and how good a sleep you have. For example, eating an apple before turning in will likely make it more difficult to drift off, because of the natural boost the apple’s fructose gives you.

Similarly, using peppermint beauty products such as moisturisers or toothpaste, or consuming peppermint flavoured lollies or teas, can send messages to your brain telling you to wake up. Making sure your last cup of caffeinated coffee is several hours before you go to bed will also help you get to sleep quicker and easier.

This Little Light Of Mine

Little, seemingly insignificant things can also keep you from sleeping. Light, even just through a tiny crack in your curtains or the glow of the numbers on your digital clock, in your bedroom can make it tough to get to sleep.

Investing in thick dark curtains will help block out light from streetlights or the moon outside, and switching off all appliances in your room that emit light should help you get to sleep easier. If there is now way to completely remove the light from your sleeping area, an eye mask will block it all out. The only downside is the split second panic in the morning when you open your eyes and fear you’ve been struck blind.

So, there are many things you can do to improve the ease with which you get to sleep, and the quality of that sleep. Not consuming alcohol immediately before going to bed, using products that will calm you down, not wake you up, and eliminating all light from your sleeping area are all good ways to get a better night’s sleep.