Common Sleep Advice You Must Ignore

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With insomnia affecting millions of Americans, and sleeping pills being so highly prescribed, it is time to reevaluate some of the common sleep advice we have heard over and over again. Both doctors and other sleep experts discuss all sorts of ways to get you to fall asleep easily and stay asleep at night. But often, the advice causes more problems.

Advice to Ignore #1: Take Sleeping Pills

Other than in extreme situations where sleep cannot be achieved for medical reasons, and is absolutely necessary immediately, sleeping pills can cause more harm than good. Many of us already realize that sleeping pills can lead to addictions.

Another reason taking sleeping pills is poor advice is because they do not treat the problem, just a symptom. Sleeplessness can be a symptom of various medical problems, but most often, stress and poor sleeping habits. It is like having a gun wound treated with anesthesia, without the surgery to have the bullet removed.

Instead, examine the source of your sleeplessness and address it. If it is stress, learn stress reducing techniques. If it is bedtime habits such as going to bed angry, watching too much television, or not shutting down the computer, then it is time to re-examine your routine.

Advice to Ignore #2: When you wake up in the middle of the night, start doing something

We have heard this advice over and over again from leading experts and it makes no sense! What are the chances you will get back to sleep while you are cleaning the kitchen or writing emails? The advice is based on the premise that when you wake-up, you will be so anxious about your ability to sleep, that you won't fall asleep and anxiety will built.

Again, this advice fails to look at the real cause of your sleeplessness and address it. If you are anxious about going to sleep, then it is time to learn how to handle the anxiety, and how to let go of the stress. There are many exercises and techniques to help you back to sleep when your mind won't stop running.

When you start doing things at night, you are teaching yourself to solve your problems or find distractions to your problems in the middle of the night. It becomes a habit and instead of learning to let go and fall asleep, you are adding fuel to your fire.

These two pieces of advice are probably the most common ones you will hear. They fail to get at the real reasons for your sleeplessness and they do not help you sleep naturally.

If you are doing one or both of these things, you may want to consider learning sleep techniques, relaxation methods. Your body can achieve natural sleep patterns that are healthy.

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You can learn the skills you need to know to fall asleep fast, stay asleep through the night and wake-up energized. You don't need gadgets and pills! Poor sleep habits cause physical, mental and emotional damage that can easily be prevented.



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