What is insomnia? Many of us have nights where we have trouble sleeping. This can be due to stress, a racing mind, or an artificial reason, such as caffeine. However, some people have chronic sleeplessness, or insomnia. This is the inability to get to sleep when you want night after night. As you can imagine, insomnia is an extremely frustrating illness.
Luckily, if you have insomnia, you're not "out of luck." There are many drugs you can take that will put you to sleep. However, like I said, these drugs can be harmful and addictive. Therefore, before resorting to harmful drugs, you should try out natural sleep aids. Many people go straight for OTC sleep aids, and end up becoming addicted to them. Before, they couldn't fall asleep. Now they can only fall asleep with a sleeping pill. This is just a small step above insomnia. Natural sleep aids are designed to cure insomnia without causing harmful effects or addictions. That is why they are natural! :)
This get's me to the whole point of this website. Natural sleep aids. Some natural sleep aids may surprise you. One of the most obvious, but not obvious (huh?) natural sleep aids is a diet change. Eating too much sugar or fatty foods can prevent you from falling asleep quickly. Stimulants, such as caffeine, also forces your body to stay awake. Just staying away from caffeine and sugar as much as possible, can greatly improve your ability to sleep. Dark green vegetables, wheat products, almonds, cashews, yeast in brewed products, can all act as natural sleep aids. If you have insomnia, you can try to eat more of these foods then you previously have. A diet change may prove to be your personal natural sleep aid.
Music is also a less obvious natural sleep aid. Music has a huge control over your brain, Conscious and sub-concious. When you have racing thoughts, some slow, soothing music can calm those thoughts, and make sleep easy. I know personally, when I have racing thoughts, I can listen to some Death Cab for Cutie or the Postal Service, and after about half the album, I'm ready for sleep. Those are my personal favorite "falling asleep bands," and I'm sure you know some you can use to aid you in sleeping.
That concludes this post on natural sleep aids. These two methods are just the tip of the iceberg, as far as natural sleeping aids goes. If you are suffering from insomnia, or have trouble sleeping occasionally, first try these two methods. They are easy to try, and can yield great results. If you still have problems, check back on this blog. I will be going into detail on many more types of natural sleep aids. Thanks for reading!
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