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5 Simple Tips to Overcome Insomnia

In the past I often had sleeping trouble, especially at night that is called as Insomnia. It usually happens when I felt scared because I had to sleep somewhere in a  new place without friends and that both insomnia came when I was having a lot of problems to be solved but I can not immediately resolve the problem that it  may be called stress.

It was excruciating us when we had trouble to close our eyes and fall asleep. While tomorrow many activities that wait us and we should welcome with our body and soul fresh. But when we found it difficult to sleep and we only slept one or two hours a night. Can we get a fresh body for activity?

Insomnia or commonly referred to insomnia sleep disorder is indeed not random. Some say insomnia is not a disease, but a symptom sleep disorders in the form of recurring difficulty to sleep or maintaining sleep (easy or frequent waking), although there is a chance for it. The symptoms are typically followed by functional impairment while awake body.

Causes of insomnia are generally in the form of stress, psychological factors, changes in working hours, one taking medication or the effect of certain drugs, and so on. Although there may be many who consider sleep a trivial problem, if it becomes a nuisance, trouble sleeping could be dangerous. Those who sleepless have been clearly affecting his health. In addition, actual sleep medicine as well.

Therefore, if sleeplessness should be addressed. Moreover, there is a declining number of patients with these symptoms increasingly lot.

Try the Following 5 Tips to Treat Your Insomnia:

1. Pray Before Bed

Praying is the best communication between you and God. Praying can reduce the problems that  you face. The problem that becomes your insomnia would also be helped by prayer if you believe, especially for those of you who believe in Our Creator. Before praying we can do relaxation with the aim soothe our minds before we pray.

2. Avoid drinking coffee

Coffee contains caffeine which will improve the work of the heart, if the heart is working quickly then we will be hard to fall asleep. Avoid drinking coffee 9 hours before bedtime to avoid insomnia or sleeplessness

3. Reduce light

Use dim light that can sleep soundly, even if necessary turn off the lights so that the room became dark. Because of that block all light sources. Make sure that we have the curtains or blinds on the windows because it could have a splash of light vehicles in the position of coincidence room facing the street, or moonlight can awaken us.

4. Keep the clock away from your bed

It may be a trivial thing. Because we feel we must always be on time, we get to put up a wall clock in our room. But with its huge size, the presence of the clock can disturb sleep. For example, because the clock is made of shiny light reflection that may befall the hours leading up to us so that disrupt sleep. Or the sound of tick-tick-tick in the silence of the night, could have been a nuisance. Not to mention the large size so that the movement of the clock so visible. When we sleep on his back waiting time, we will know how long we are awake, so more and make us stress.

Therefore keep the wall clock, replace it with your phone that can be adjusted alarm her if we need to be reminded to get up.

5. Clean and Suit your bed

The dirty beds were can make sleep uncomfortably. Because this will be felt in the skin and cause an itchy skin. Replace your sheets and pillowcases at least once a week, or replace it when it is not convenient for you to sleep. Make your bed as comfortable as possible. Use a soft mattress so comfortable to sleep on and look use a pillow with high and softness or elasticity that fits your opinion so that it fits your sleeping position.

That tips to treat insomnia from me. Good luck!

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