Natural Cures for Insomnia – 13 Self-Help Tips (I)

Craving for a good night’s sleep? Here are 13 ‘must-try’ self-help natural cures for insomnia that will work for anyone who is serious about improving sleep quality:

1. Refrain from inappropriate or untimely consumption of food and beverages containing caffeine, nicotine or alcohol. Those three are notoriously depriving many of better sleep. Most people habitually don’t give much thought about how the choice of food and drinks can affect their sleep. So just exercise more care to what you eat and drink as well as when you eat and drink and you would have less trouble going to sleep and staying asleep.

2. Avoid taking heavy meals two hours before bed. Doing so relieve our body, specifically our digestive system of having to work overtime while we go to sleep and hence, help us sleep better.

3. Don’t drink too much water after dinner everyday so as to avoid having to wake up to go to toilet in the middle of your sleep. Once awaken, it’s generally harder to sleep as soundly as before.

4. Where feasible, try to stay away from environments that continually work as stimuli to our senses after 5pm (for those living in the tropic, could be earlier or later depending on the season if you’re living in temperate countries) each day, for example, very noisy places. This practice works by helping to ‘rest’ and condition our bodies and minds through relaxation to better prepare us to sleep later at night.

5. Strictly stick to the rule that the bed is only meant for sleep. If all you need is some rest, not sleep then go and rest yourself comfortably at the sofa. Just stay away from the bed.

6. Stop watching TV in bed if you have been doing that. Such practice, especially when it happens just before you sleep, can keep your mind overly active and thus, makes it harder for you to go to sleep.

Seven more self-help tips on natural cures for insomnia to follow soon…