{Happy Sunday}
This morning... or should i say afternoon... was really hard for me to wake up!
I have been having a lot of issues sleeping lately!! Not sure why, but last night I stayed up until about 4:30 a.m.
So as you can probably imagine, I really didn't want to get out of bed.
Any sleeping tips you want to share?? Make sure and leave a comment below! : )
I would really appreciate some help. It has been a few months
that I have been going through this.
++ So Just like every Sunday Zach and I got ready and headed off to church.
Our ward has met at the same time for the entire time we have been here.. But for some reason today we magically thought up a different time that it started. {The crazy this is that we both thought this without really saying anything to one another! I know crazy!}
So we show up late {not knowing we were a half an hour late} and we couldn't find our ward!
So we just ended up going to some random ward that was having sacrament and we both felt like dummies!
++ here is the kicker
After church was over we run into our Bishop getting ready to start our sacrament! So we felt like even bigger dummies trying to make our escape! : )
Oh well you live and learn right!
Hope all is well and that all of you are enjoying my project
+ I am really excited about doing this, I can't even tell you!
Thanks for reading!
i heard that a glass of milk and whole wheat crackers will help u fall asleep... i know u cant exactly chug down a glass of milk and feel good lol but i'm sure u can get lactose free or whatev [yuck] but yea the wheat [make sure they're whole wheat too!] supposedly have something in them that has something to with digesting or some crap bla bla bla idk but i just remember that so that is my tip for the day :)
ReplyDeletelove u hope all is well!
i love the project 365 idea! and your outfit... darling!
ReplyDeleteLove your cute outfit!! Good luck with school! I am doing this new "Paleo" diet this year. It's no grains, no dairy, no processed sugar, etc. In his book he talks about how eating this way can lead to better sleep. But he also references a book called Lights Out. I stole this from his website (robbwolf.com)
ReplyDeletehttp://robbwolf.com/2010/12/31/easy-ways-to-be-a-sleep-viking-in-2011/
Here are five quick tips for you.
1. Keep to a routine. Your body’s hormones adjust to whatever routine you have, so the more scheduled your life is, the better. Eating at regular times and sleeping/waking up at set times helps you do the same thing tomorrow and next week. This is also psychological– when you see it’s near the time to go to bed, you’ll get sleepy.
2. Along the same lines, set a pre-determined time to stop drinking caffeine every day. I’m narrowing down my hour through trial and error, and it’s sometime between noon and 3pm. 5pm definitely kills me– I toss and turn for hours and sleep horribly.
I’d never know this unless I tracked it. So check it out by keeping a sort of diary about when you’re sleeping and being awake. The Zeo helps with this too (disclosure: Robb and I both received one for free).
3. Lack of sleep is often a symptom of other problems, as well as a cause of yet other ones. Look for the source. Are you working out before bed? If so, quit it. Exercise (except sex, heh) increases heart rate and raises body temperature, making it harder to conk out when you hit your pillow.
Optionally, it could be reading non-fiction that keeps your brain active– some people say you should quit reading fiction at night entirely. Whatever your habits are, set up a system to keep you relaxed at night.
4. I don’t know about you, but I get stressed out just thinking about sleeping. It turns into a vicious cycle– stressed about sleep, so I stay awake, which stresses me out more, etc. I break this cycle with a method I discovered through Viktor Frankl, a holocaust survivor and psychotherapist who wrote an amazing book, Man’s Search For Meaning.
Frankl used Paradoxical Intention to relieve his patients of anxiety by making them try their hardest to be anxious, which ironically prevents anxiety. So do the same thing by trying very hard (lying down and with your eyes closed) to stay awake! It’s surprising and counterintuitive, but it works.
5. Finally, stop blue light from entering your house at night. It seems like it wouldn’t help, but many studies show that it isn’t the brightness of light that causes problems, but its colour. Turns out blue light wakes you up, and red/rose light does the opposite. What is the biggest source of blue light in your house? You guessed it: your computer. So download F.lux– it’s free, and based on where you live, it’ll change the colour of your screen at night. Presto!