How Are You Sleeping These Days?

Greetings,

I hope that your answer is “soundly, blissfully – awakening refreshed most days“. That seems to be rare for many people with whom I’ve been speaking lately.

In my first two videos with sleep tips, I mentioned:

• turning off screens at least an hour before bed, more than an hour if your sleep is heavily disrupted
• doing Legs-up-the-Wall before bed
• turning on the blue light filter, on all your devices. You can program it to come on at sunset, and turn off in the morning. Having a warmer light emanating from your screens helps your brain to quiet down when you’re winding towards bed.
• sitting quietly before heading to bed, and breathing like you do at the start of a Yoga class. Simply sitting, resting, breathing.
• journaling works for some people whose sleep is disturbed by racing thoughts. Getting those thoughts on paper can help your mind rest.
• 1:1, 2:2, 3:3 breathing pattern. (Inhale, saying “1” to yourself. Exhale, repeat “1”. Inhale, say 2, exhale repeat 2. Continue in this way. If your mind wanders, turn it around and count backwards from 20 or 30.) If I get up in the middle of the night, this breathing pattern usually works in helping me get back to sleep.

Today’s video has three more tips for better sleep; may they help create a beautiful shift in your night-time rest.