10 Ways To Naturally Improve Sleep

Wouldn't it be nice to stop being tired in the morning?

Besides eating breakfast, getting your required hours of physical sleep is the other major factor in your energy levels for the day. Since you can only excel and perform as best as your level of energy it is important to get your nightly zzz's.

Here's 10 Ways To Naturally Improve Your Sleep

1. Limit Caffeine
At night, make sure you put away your last tea or can of coke away at least 3 to 4 hours before bed time make sure you body has the best chance to rest.

2. Air Quality – Room Temp
If your room is too cold you might want to consider getting a portable heater or extra blankets. If it is too hot then perhaps open a window if possible.

3. Air Quality - Improving
If you own pets then their dander is likely around your room. Get a portable air filter or air ionizer to purify the air and have your lungs saying hallelujah!

4. Personal Comfort
There's no excuse for not getting a good sleep because of noise or too much light. If this is your problem then splurge on yourself and invest in some use ear plugs or eye masks.

5. Bed Comfort Back
A quality matress should be treated like a valued best friend, after all you spend so much time together and it's got your back in most situations.

6. Bed Comfort Head & Neck
Take some time to shop around and try out different pillows with different levels of support. Too soft or stiff and your neck will cramp up overnight so decide wisely.

7. Bed Bug Free Sheets
Keeping your bed clean should be a given, but many still need to be sold on buying high quality sheets. For the finishing touch on your sound sleep think high quality, fresh and soft.

8. Get Physical
Using the body naturally makes it tired, so take a nightly walk, go to the gym at a later time, or find a way to get active before calling it a night.

9. Practice Relaxation
Quality alone time is under rated and under valued. Ideally, spend some alone time right before bed, this will quiet the mind and relax your state of being before bedtime.

10. Change Your Alarm
Switch to soothing sound so you don't dread getting up in the morning to that awful ear-breaking buzzer. When you don't dread getting up you won't dreat going to sleep as much either.

The only irony in this post is that by the time I finished it, the time was after 2:30am, we'll at least I'll get a solid 3 hour sleep. This would be a good time to point out that if you have any form of wickedness inside you then these techniques will not work, because as you've heard, there's no rest for the wicked ;)

Happy sleeping!

10 Ways To Improve Sleep

10 Ways To Improve Sleep

1. Limit Caffeine Night 3 to 4 Hours Before Bed Time

2. Air Quality – Room Temp, Open A Window If Possible

3. Air Quality – Pet Dander / Air Filter / Air Ionizer

4. Personal Comfort -ie. Use Ear Plugs or Eye Masks If Needed

5. Bed Comfort – Back ie. A Quality Matress Counts

6. Bed Comfort – Head & Neck ie. Your Pillow Has A Purpose

7. Sheets – Quality, Soft, Clean, Fresh

8. Exercise – Using The Body Naturally Makes It Tired

9. Practice Relaxation or Quality Alone Time

10. Change Your Alarm – Switch to Soothing ie. Sound

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Sleep Less... Have More Energy?

The following is a copy of a post made on 43things.com

See what other people are doing or check the progress on this at: become a morning person.

Hello all,

Thanks again for taking a moment to read about my success story.

It was almost 10 years ago when I had a case of reverse-insomnia. The number of hours in my daily sleep was limited by eating and bathroom breaks.

I went from hating to get up to waking up at just after 6:00am every day and am more productive and am accomplishing more than ever. I tackle the thing I dislike the most doing first thing in the morning and the rest of the day is a bonus!

If you are looking to change from sleeping all day to making the most of your day, the Success Sensei offers the following advice to turn the tide of nappy time to your terms.

1. Get a comfy bed.
– If you aren’t getting quality sleep then it won’t matter how much sleep you get, it won’t ever feel enough.

2. Eliminate distractions.
– Why not take the time and/or money to fix that leaky tap instead of listening to it all night long and then complaining about it the day after. Does your significant other snore… well then get earplugs. Don’t take or make excuses.

3. Wake Up Your Way.
– I haven’t met anyone who enjoyed the tormenting blast of a buzzer first thing in the morning so why do most of us choose to wake up by it? How much calmer and happy would you be if you started off your day with your favorite song? Buy a CD alarm clock or find another way to make this happen.

4. Treat Your Feet.
– If you’re floor is cold and you hate touching your bare feet against it in the morning then why not adjust your thermostat to heat up earlier in the am before you get up? Don’t have an auto thermostat? Improvise by buying comfy slippers that you can keep warm under the sheets overnight until you’re ready to use them.

5. Incentive For The Bathroom
– No this isn’t a reward system for going potty, what this means is that you need to create something exciting in your bathroom so that you are enticed to get right out of bed and get right to it in the bathroom in the morning. It doesn’t matter what you use it could be soap, shampoo, shaving cream, great perfume or cologne or whatever. The test for knowing whether or not its a good incentive? The thought of using this item compels you enough to get out of bed.

6. Incentive for Life
– Last but deinitely not least is the most important piece of the puzzle. One of the strongest supporting factors in my own ability to get up was building a strong enough reason to. Wayne Dyer so that the biggest reason why people don’t want to get out of bed is because they don’t have any reason to. Find your reason and you will find yourself getting out of bed in the morning.

As always, the Success Sensei is open to your feedback, questions, or any ideas on how I can support you through your journey to greatness.