How to sleep well: your bedtime routine!

Contributing to your well-being by eliminating the bad habits of your stressed life would allow you to modulate a stimulating rhythm of life. Being happy and healthy are the key to personal development and self-confidence!

Therefore, change your life to break with procrastination and the daily routine and start new habits in monotony today.

Getting back to sleep when your body clock is off can be a daily struggle. The arms of Morpheus are not always very welcoming and the hours of sleep sometimes decrease over the weeks, depending on the state of our vitality. Falling asleep can be an ordeal and restorative sleep non-existent. To track down these sleep monsters, here are a few tips for sleeping well at night.

The importance of a bedtime routine: a life ritual

Having an evening ritual allows you to change your mindset on small everyday things even if for some it seems like a step out of the comfort zone.

Nevertheless, your emotional life will quickly be improved by these natural and healthy solutions, avoiding the constant irritability or nervousness that sleep deprivation causes.

Before you go to a sleep specialist, try these some tips for a healthy lifestyle to sleep like a baby.

7 good habits for the evening meal

To sleep well, there's nothing like a balanced diet that won't disrupt your sleep.

- Eat foods rich in tryptophan, an essential amino acid (brown rice, meat and poultry, bananas, almonds, legumes...)

- Avoiding caffeine

- Indulge in a glass of warm milk (almond, oat or spelt milk) or verbena tea with a little orange blossom (floral water)

·      Do not eat meals too heavy to go to bed on an empty stomach

- Do not eat rich foods or slow sugars

- Choose a routine schedule to go to bed at the same time every day

- Avoid evening snacks (sweets or chips)

How to sleep better thanks to cocooning moments?

- Break the screen routine and avoid screens 30 minutes before bedtime

- Read a few pages of a novel or magazine before falling asleep

- Write in your gratitude journal your good resolutions for the next day

- Listen to relaxing music and apply relaxation techniques

- Do breathing exercises

- Do some stretching before going to bed but avoid doing sports

- Massage with a mixture of essential oil of lavender (+ vegetable oil) or spray a hydrolat

- Take a bath, ideally a hot bath (water at body temperature)

- Meditate (Audio meditation on youtube)

- Always go to bed at the same time

- Enjoy a light therapy session

- Don't think about the unexpected or about your "metro work sleep" but choose positive thinking: let go of the problems

- Overcome boredom

- Hugging your children

Natural remedies for a natural sleep

The circadian rhythm is sometimes disturbed by our lifestyle. However, helping it with natural methods or grandmother remedies can change our sleep cycles.

Valerian is a sedative herb that can promote sleep. Similarly, passionflower will act on the nervous system to avoid sleep problems.

A chamomile tea (calming) before going to sleep helps digest and engage deep sleep.

Avoid sedatives or sleeping pills, dangerous in the long run.

How to sleep well: your bedtime routine

My routine: inventing a conscious and beneficial evening for a fulfilled life

Taking the time to take care of yourself is an often unconscious key to changing your life and finding a good relationship with your sleepless nights.

How to turn your evenings into real ritual moments?

Take the time to :

- Get out of the shower for a more zen evening with soft and soothing music

- Remove makeup with a micellar solution or oil makeup remover and cleanser

- Discover the benefits of an exfoliating scrub

- Moisturize your skin with a nourishing moisturizer, depending on your skin type

- Apply a serum for the eye contour or anti-aging care (beauty tips for a beautiful skin)

- Put on a nice pair of pajamas or an inspiring night outfit

- Sex to increase your sleep (and well-being) hormone levels

- Saying I love you to each other, with full awareness, in your love relationship

Make this moment last to get the maximum benefit on the upcoming night's sleep.

Self-confidence, increased sleep time and quality of sleep are the surprising results you can expect by adopting a daily routine. The stressful day is then easily gone as soon as you get under the comforter.

Getting into bed will become a pleasure and will change your life.

Also, accept the benefits of the law of attraction: when you take care of yourself, you welcome everything you need to move forward.

Vanessa Colant 21 March, 2019
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