Your Sleep [part 2]
Preparing your sleep well is an investment for your health - physically, mentally and emotionally.
In our modern society we often forget the importance of how we end the day, and often we are not even thinking about how to prepare ourselves to go to bed and get a rest-full sleep.
Your mind doesn’t have an on/off button, as all your devices have - laptop, mobile and television. Your brain wants to process all impressions that it observes. Therefore you need to move out of impressions a couple of hours before going to bed, to calm the flow of thoughts that your mind will create.
If you won’t do that, you’re taking the risk of either having a hard time falling asleep, or you will wake up in the middle of the night [often around 2 - 3 am] overwhelmed by thoughts that often become negative or anxious, and are depleting your sleep.
As I describe in my previous blog [part 1] in this serial “Your Sleep”, the best hours to sleep are 10pm - 6am. If you want to invest in good sleep, prepare yourself well by:
Closing all your devices 2 hours before going to bed, to decrease impressions. This will calm your mind and soothe your emotions. Your brain and [spiritual] heart can, with no disturbance, process what you have experienced during the day and prepare you to meet the next day smoothly.
Creating a calm and quiet evening routine that includes slow movement, such as yin yoga or a short walk, a moment of reflection and journaling, and use some of the time for spiritual reading or meditation.
3. Let your bed and bedroom be a sacred space that is inviting and comfortable, preferably with soothing essential scents refreshing your sleeping space.
Let both the room and the bed air out thoroughly before you go to bed.
No electronics here!
4. Make your bed comfortable with a firm mattress that supports the natural curves in your spine, a pillow that keeps your neck aligned [not too high], and soft sheets made of natural fabrics.
I hope this was valuable for you, to understand the importance of how you prepare yourself for sleep is predominant for how your sleep will turn out.
In my upcoming blog, part 3 about your sleep, I will write about what you can do when your sleep is interrupted, poor or it’s hard for you to fall asleep even with the preparations above.
Sleep tight, with sweet dreams!
