When you want to cure panic attacks, one of the best things you can do is improve the quality of sleep you’re having, and here are three good ways to achieve that.
The first way to have better sleep is to stop all negative thinking while you’re in bed.
A significant percentage of all your worry takes place when you’re in bed, which is hard to believe considering it’s probably the place where most people are at their most relaxed.
This problem probably affects you at night when you’re lying awake trying to sleep, during the night when you wake up, and in the morning when you’re awake but not up yet.
So what’s most important in this situation is quickly stopping as much of your worrying in the bedroom as possible, and the easiest area to solve this problem is with the worrying you do when you wake up in the morning. The solution? Get up imediately, as soon as you open your eyes.
This may sound like a very simplistic idea}, but it really does work and will stop a lot of your morning anxiety. Getting yourself up and out of bed so that your mind can’t find things to worry about will give you an excellent [start to your day.
Okay, now to stop those occasions when you worry in the middle of the night after waking up. I’ll admit, this one’s slightly tricky to solve, but there are solid methods you can use. Right away I should tell you that if you’re ever awake for more than a few minutes, get up straight away. Staying in bed won’t solve anything, and will probably double your anxiety.
While you’re up, maybe it would be good to have a shower or a bath – whichever you find more calming. Or just spend some time doing something that relaxes you, even if it’s just sitting down in the living room with a hot drink. After your little relaxation period, go back to bed. By getting up and waiting a while before going back to bed, it’s all much more natural and like the original time you went to bed.
This whole appraoch has to beat lying in bed for hours on end, with nothing to do but worry. And when you eventually go back to bed, you’re far more likely to drift off to sleep without any problems.
Okay, now time for the 2nd way to get the kind of sleep that cures anxiety attacks, and this one is about creating and sticking to a consistent routine.
By sticking to the same routines and times, you’re sleeping will improve, whatever the cause of your sleeping problems.
By simply going to bed at the same time each night and getting up at the same time each morning, your body’s internal clock will get back to normal. Many of your body’s functions, including the releasing of hormones, are affected by your wake/sleep cycle.
I bet you know that feeling that you’re utterly burnt out, right? Well, that is sometimes a result of your adrenal glands being out of whack. One of the few ways to correct a problem like that is to get some good sleeping habits sorted out.
So do your best to go to bed each night at the same time, and get up each morning at the same time too. When you start out doing this, you may go through a couple of tough days while you get back into the correct routine, but it will be worth it. And also beware of sleeping in late on weekends, or days when you don’t have to be up early. All your hard work can be undone with a couple of late lie-ins!
***Method #3. No More Stimulants Before Bedtime***
In my own case, a lot of the problems I had with my sleep were due to what I was exposing myself to in the time leading up to bedtime. I confess that I often watched fast-paced TV, listened to loud music, and played action-packed video games right up until I turned my lights off. Obviously this is a bad idea.
So the first thing to do is eliminate anything stimulating for at least an hour before you go to bed. You should also not do any exercise at all for at least a couple of hours before bed. And try to develop a new pre-bed routine a “slow-down” routine, as I like to call it.
So go out of your way to take it easy. act like you’re on a vacation without a care in the world. You know what relaxes you, so do that! Have a favourite bed time drink, do some light reading, sit outside in the fresh air if it’s warm. Anything to relax.
I know that what I’m saying here sounds like it’s too obvious to work, but I can guarantee that this does work. And can you honestly say that you give yourself quality time like this?
If you’re a bath-taker, then whenever you can take one right before you get into bed. Make it warm, but never too hot. A warm bath has been proven in many studies to put the body in just the right state for great quality sleep. So make this slow winding-down hour a new part of your pre-bed routine. It can work unbelievably well when you’re not sleeping.
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