Sleep Hygiene
Let me introduce you to a new concept in wellbeing. Sleep is an essential component of human activity. It is restorative, repairing, and should leave you rejuvenated when you wake-up. Its intrinsic healing appeal leads to beautiful skin, muscle growth, and detoxification without us feeling a thing. It brings down stress-levels. It’s an automatic fast. Hence it contributes to effective weight loss if that is one of your goals.
Sleep-hygiene is a an attempt to ritualise going to sleep.
Why would you need to do this?
…When you can’t fall asleep, or fall asleep and then wake up in the wee-hours wide awake and still have 3/4 hours to go before you need to be awake.
Hormonal changes during peri-menopause and then after menopause can affect your sleep. Or you are worried and anxious about something? You tend to ruminate and your thoughts prevent you from staying asleep?
The practice of Sleep-hygiene makes going to bed intentional rather than a mundane habit. You are sending a message to your brain and anyone else around you that you are ready to rest and repair through shut-eye.
The steps for sleep-hygiene are:
- Eat your last meal between 7-8pm if not before.
- Have a cup of chamomile tea.
- Put your smartphone/device/tv down and make the intention to not surf or scroll till the next day.
- Prepare for a shower or a bath. Use hot or cold water depending on the climate.
- Use a lavender soap or any hypoallergenic soap to wash with and complete any other personal hygiene practices. Put a lavender based oil on your skin. Or rub in Mg oil on to your legs and arms and feet for tired muscles and joints or for Mg deficiency.
- Put on a cotton or any natural breathable fabric, night-suit. Make sure you like what you’re wearing. It makes you feel good and improves your self-worth.
- Sit or get into bed with a paperback or paper magazine.
- Make sure your room is cool enough to be comfortable to sleep in. Too hot or too cold will prevent sleep.
- Keep your curtains shut and avoid a night light. Your sleep will be of better quality if it’s dark inside.
- Read the paperback and fall asleep.
- Consider wearing a cotton sleep mask to keep it dark,and have a deep sleep.
- Keep your phone far away from you if you use it as an alarm.
Just like with anything, if you want a better quality of life then doing something with intention instead of mindlessly will lead to a fitter, happier you. Even going to sleep.
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Sonia Salim.