enjoy sleeping

To do:

0. Thoroughly vacuum the bedroom. Put all bedding and pajamas in dryer in high heat for 30 minutes.
1. Get 100% cotton comforters and bedding.
2. Shut all blinds.
3. Set room temperature at 61-68 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. Quiet the mind.
5. Turn off all music, noise.
6. Sleep from 8:30pm to 4:30am daily, even on weekends.
7. Use no alarm clock. Wake up naturally.

• Sleeping is a very high priority to do item every day. It is as important as breathing.

• Life will always be stressful and worrisome. There is no need to let those things disturb my sleep.

• The best way to conquer worries is to sleep well.

• The best way to handle financial worries is to sleep well.

• The best way to handle relationship worries is to sleep well.

• The best way to have good health is to sleep well.

Going to bed at 10pm and get up at 7am the next day makes the sleep better than going to bed at 11pm and getting up at 8am.

When I choose to sleep impact the quality a lot a lot.

Journaling my emotions and inner world also seems to help me to sleep better at night.

Got “sleeping beauty” on tape. It helped me to fall asleep much easier. Hmm…. Maybe I’ll start collecting some good bed time stories on tape!

Went to bed at 10pm instead of 12am. Slept lightly throughout the night, but it is still a night of restful sleep.

Went to church BBQ for dinner yesterday, met some fun nice people. Came home, took a drive and a walk to relax. My room temperature was turned down to 68 degrees. I slept really well for full 9 hours :)

Woo Hoo!

So far I’ve found the best sleeping pill appears to be a heart pumping, sweating rain drops workout.

And another one is surprisingly, new experience that leads to learning. It’s no wonder I slept better in my twenties.

I noticed on days when I do something like attending a lecture on a subject that’s totally new to me, I tend to sleep more soundly that night. It also seems to help if I do something like going to a concert to listen to a band that I normally don’t listen to, or do something that I have never done before like swing dancing.

These things help with sleeping well:

exercise
surrendering to God
cool temperature
yoga before bedtime
talking to a good friend
chamomille tea
poultry
carbohydrates

These things disturbs sleeping:

warm bedroom
intense focus on goals
worries
anxiety
not exercising

Read in an article today that our brains restructure the memory when we sleep. It needs some protein and vitamins. So I’m eating a turkey sandwich at dinner time and later on snack on some blueberries. I’ll see how I sleep tonight.