Lifestyle Approaches for Insomnia

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We all agree that lifestyle approaches are one of good ideas that we should prioritize for insomnia treatment before looking for medicine treatments. Non-medicine treatments like lifestyle approaches for insomnia have fewer effect and relatively safer for anyone.

Moreover, lifestyle approaches are great idea if you seriously want to get long-lasting effects to get the well organized sleeping.

And the following are good habits that you should practice to avoid insomnia:

1. Always to try to make the right schedule for your sleep! Schedule as much as possible your sleep time at the same time for every day, either for the time to begin to sleep or for the time to wake up.
2. Be active in your lifestyle in order to make you can sleep easily in the night. Schedule to do outdoor exercise if necessary. If you don’t have adequate time for exercise, you should be more creative! You can try ‘bike-to-work idea’ or using a treadmill desk in your office room.
3. After lunchtime, you may think it is perfect time to consume caffeinated drinks but much better to avoid it in order to get easily sleep in the night. If you love caffeine drinks, you should reduce to consume them!
4. Daytime naps are good idea to keep fresh your mind in the middle of the day, but make sure you do nap- not over than 30 minutes! 30-20 minutes naps during the day is enough! For better result, avoid going to daytime naps after 3-pm!
5. In the evening, avoid any activities that can make you difficult to sleep, such as; working or playing on the computer too late, exercise too late in the evening, or consuming big meals in the evening (which also not good idea for your diet program).
6. If you are smoker or alcohol-addicted, then it is much better to quit from these bad activities as earlier as possible. Or in the evening- avoid drinking alcohol or smoking!
7. Use the good bed! Make sure it is not too cold or too hot that can reduce your comfort to sleep!
8. Avoid bringing any unrelated activities onto your bed, such as eating on the bed, watching TV on the bed, discussing a certain problem on your bed, or even working on your bed!
9. If you cannot sleep after 20 minutes lying in the bed, then you can go to another room and then do a certain activity that will make you more relax then you can try again back to sleep on your comfortable bed.

In addition, redecorate your bedroom if necessary, make sure the decoration is comfortable enough for you in the nigh so thus you can sleep easier.

Avoid too light colors for the decoration!  Turn off the light or if you cannot sleep in the darkness you can use a light with not-too bright.