[Best 10] Practical Tips To Sleep Well | How To Get Better Sleep

 

[Best 10] Practical Tips To Sleep Well | How To Get Better Sleep. Sleep is one of the pillars of good health but it can be hard to get sometimes.

In this article, I want to talk about my top 10 tips to get better sleep and faster sleep based on science.

If you’re interested keep reading.

I have not been having good sleep in the last two months it’s because of anxiety,

my cats have been keeping me awake but whatever it may be

I feel like that lack of sleep is impacting me so I did what I do best.

Research!

I did all the research I could on how to sleep better and I found 10 the science-backed way does it.

#1 sleep in a cool room

Not cool! room but a colder temperature. So the National Sleep

Foundation actually recommends temperatures around 65 degrees

Fahrenheit is roughly eighteen point five degrees Celsius.

now that does sound a little cold and I don’t think I’ve ever slept in a room that cold but

I started to reduce the temperature in my room when

I slept and I found that it makes a big difference.

When my thermostat is set to higher I tend to wake up in the middle of the night
kicking off the sheets because I’m too hot. So it does work.

Now, what’s the reason behind this?

It’s because when we go to sleep our internal body temperature naturally drops and a lower

body temperature promotes deeper sleep

and when our temperature is too high we have a very fitful sleep.

So if you’re having trouble sleeping consider sleeping in a colder temperature room.

#2 sleep in darkness or use blackout curtains.

The reason for this is when we are exposed to light our bodies can’t produce melatonin that well.

Melatonin is a sleep hormone if you don’t produce melatonin properly

you’re not going to sleep well so any exposure to light isn’t a good idea and

I personally struggle with this.

When I’m sleeping in a room that has a little bit of light, I can’t fall asleep.

I wake up many times in the middle of the night

Now I do have blackout blinds but I find that there’s a little gap between the

blinds and that’s enough light to be disruptive so I am planning to invest in

blackout curtains this year so I can sleep in complete darkness.

#3 Use a white noise machine

 

If necessary. Now if you sleep in a really quiet environment and you’re not

a light sleeper you probably don’t need a white noise machine but if you live in

the city the way I do there’s a lot of street noise and sometimes if you’re a
light sleeper you can wake up in the middle of the night.

Use a white noise machine to drown out that sound.

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So white noise machines have sounded like a waterfall or an electric fan or just regular white noise.

These noises can basically drown out any of the extraneous sounds so you won’t wake up
in the middle of the night.

#4 Avoid devices before bed.

So devices such as a computer a laptop television phone all of these devices produce blue light.

The problem with blue light is your body thinks it’s daylight and because of that

it can’t produce the melatonin and you can’t fall asleep properly.

So if you’re struggling with sleep try to limit your device usage before bed.

I try not to use my phone an hour to an hour and a half before bed but you know let’s face it

sometimes you do use your phone so there is a little thing that you could do.

So a lot of phones have something called the blue light filter and my Samsung has it.

So I just click that blue light filter and I don’t have to worry about blue light being emitted from my phone.

If you don’t have a blue light filter on your phone directly you can actually get it

an app – there are many apps to deal with this.

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The other option isn’t it. It isn’t ideal but I should mention it because it came up in my research.

So you can use orange goggles.  So you can buy these off Amazon and these orange goggles can

block blue light from everything so you don’t have to use those filters on your phone anymore.

Just wear the goggles but I don’t know I just don’t see myself

wearing orange goggles around the house so I try to avoid my devices before bed now.

#5 Develop a sleep routine.

So the National Sleep Foundation recommends that you have a sleep routine

because when you wake up at different times on the weekend than you do on the

weekday it confuses your body.

It’s sort of like when we travel we have that trouble with sleep schedule in a new time zone.

It’s because our bodies aren’t used to it.

So let’s say you sleep at 10 p.m. on a weekday and then on the weekend,

you’re sleeping at 2:00 a.m. your body is going to be rather confused.

To get proper sleep throughout the week it’s a good idea to stick to a sleep schedule – asleep routine.

#6 Gets enough exercise.

So studies show that people who exercise more often specifically aerobic exercise

tend to get better sleep quality so if you are having trouble with sleep try exercising.

And I think this works.

The days I exercise I’m exhausted by the end of the day and

I need to get my sleep and I fall asleep rather quickly.

Now the timing of exercise it varies- some people can

exercise before bed and have no problems

but other people cannot it tends to make them feel a little awake.

So you need to figure out what works for you I personally don’t exercise in the evening

I don’t find that it works for me I tend to get a little revved up and then I

can’t sleep so I try it in the morning.

#7 Avoid caffeine in the six hours before bed

show that caffeine and sleep aren’t interrelated so it’s a little confusing

now personally I can have caffeine and fall asleep very quickly caffeine does

not work that well on me in terms of keeping me awake but everyone’s a bit

different so that’s why I think the studies are not very conclusive because

everyone’s genetics impact how caffeine affects them so if you happen to be one

of those people who are having trouble with sleep try to cut down the caffeine and see if it works.

#8 to get enough magnesium

consider taking supplements or eating more magnesium so magnesium is known as

the relaxation mineral it can help relax your muscles and it can help you sleep

better the problem with magnesium is it’s only available in whole foods it’s

not really prevalent in processed foods there are very little so people who are

relying mostly on processed foods don’t get enough and even if you’re eating

whole foods sometimes it’s hard to get enough magnesium because our soil

doesn’t have as much as it used to so a lot of people are a deficient in

magnesium and it impacts how you sleep so if you’re having trouble sleeping and

you think you might be low in magnesium consider taking a supplement.

I like to take magnesium citrate now and then or you can eat more magnesium-rich foods on a regular basis.

#9 Getting into the fun stuff

lavender essential oil so lavender is known as a relaxation essential oil and

it does work I was able to find a few studies that show that inhaling lavender

can promote better sleep they basically took a cotton ball put it into a

container and then put a few drops of lavender essential oil on that cotton

ball and they asked the study participants to basically inhale that

lavender oil ten times before going to bed and it made a difference so it

definitely is worth the shot. It doesn’t seem like it’s a very difficult thing to do.

Now if you have cats or dogs I do urge you to do your own research-based

on what I found that the ASPCA says that lavender is toxic to cats and dogs I

will not be diffusing lavender in my home I don’t want to take the risk but I do use lavender.

I do it the way that they did in the study I’ll put it on a cotton ball and

I’ll inhale out or I’ll inhale it straight from the bottle

I’m not sure if that’s good but I’ll do it occasionally.

#10 chamomile tea so

chamomile tea has been known as a sleep aid for a very long time but the

research on it is scant so I couldn’t find anything that’s conclusive but I

did find something interesting while chamomile tea and sleep don’t

necessarily have a strong connection there is a much stronger connection in

the research with chamomile and anxiety so if the reason you’re not able to

sleep is anxiety or you know stress then chamomile tea probably will work for you

I personally do find that chamomile tea works really well on me.

I’ll have a cup of it and within half-an-hour, I’m out.

So I think it works but you know it may not work for you we’re all different so at

the end of the day the research can say yay or nay but if it works for you great

so try it out and see if it works for you thank you very much