How To Get a Good Night’s Sleep #ad #IC

**Full Disclosure: I participated in an Ambassador program on behalf of Influence Central for Pernix Therapeutics. I received a promotional item to thank me for my participation.

For the past couple of months I’ve been talking a lot about how to get a good night’s sleep. Last month, I shared a few shut eye strategies and told you I’d be doing my best to get a better night’s sleep. I tried really hard to use those sleep strategies for three weeks. As I expected, the hardest part for me was turning off electronics an hour before bedtime because I do a lot of (online) writing in that hour before bed. However, I have been getting a better night’s sleep with the other three shut eye strategies. Today I want to share 9 things I do, though not necessarily all together, to get a good night’s sleep.

How To Get a Good Night’s Sleep:

• Exercise early in the day.
  • You’ll get better sleep when you exercise first thing in the morning because your body is exhausted.
• Remove distractions by putting your phone away an hour before bedtime.
  • The light from your phone keeps your mind active which means you stay up later and get less sleep.
• Limit your caffeine after dinner.
  • I don’t think it affects me but my mind is more alert at bedtime if I consume caffeine in the evening.
• Take a warm bath or shower.
  • A warm bath or shower will help your body de-stress. As long as you don’t take the time to do your hair, you’ll be ready to sleep after relax.
• Buy new sheets and/or black-out curtains.
  • New sheets make me want to go to bed because I love to snuggle up in them. Black-out curtains will keep porch or street lights from shining in your windows. If they sun rises before you need to wake up, the black-out curtains will block some of that light.
• Turn your A/C down.
  • I always sleep better when it’s cold so turning my A/C down two or three degrees helps me sleep a little better. But make sure you turn it back up in the morning and watch your electric bill!
• Laugh!
  • Have you ever laughed until you cried? It’s the best! But it’s even better right before bed.
• Establish a bedtime routine.
  • If you are like me, you created a bedtime routine for your kids as soon as you possibly could. We did it for a reason, right? Now it’s time to form a nightly regimen that works for you!
• Make your room as dark as possible by turning alarm clocks and lights.
  • Did you know you can make a bedroom darker without black-out curtains? Move your alarm clock to the bottom shelf of your night stand or turn it around. Make sure all the lights are out when you climb in bed.

It doesn’t matter if you use all of these methods or just some of them. What matters is that you get a good night’s sleep. If you have trouble sleeping through the night, you should have a conversation with your doctor about your routine, lifestyle and symptoms to determine the best option for you. To learn more about how to achieve a full, uninterrupted night’s sleep visit wanttosleepmore.com.

How do you get a good night’s sleep?

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