Do we Adults need a Bedtime Routine?

From infancy to old age, the value of habits is universally acknowledged. Advance them regularly and you can develop a healthy lifestyle as well as stronger personal relationships; fail to follow program, and pressure blocks your progress threefold. When your children are young, you’re likely to have fixed most everything else in their lives to stay consistent and unchanging. You and children follow a set bedtime pattern before sleep (for example, take a bath, read a story, then go to bed).

Following a schedule at bedtime allows children to tune in to their natural body rhythms and let nature handle having a good night’s rest rather than trying too hard at it; it also inculcates habits that encourage sound sleep. Bedtime routines for adults are equally important. Your brain can more easily separate the daytime there from the night in this way, letting go of what might be worrying it, another means for sleep to follow after only a short delay or none at all as the case may be depending on how well one does this properly and efficiently with practice over time.

Now let us take the time to list some of excellent nightly habits, which if followed with regularity might help make your bedtime routine substantially healthier and in turn make falling asleep that little bit easier for you.

Set a Bedtime Routine

Start building a healthy bedtime routine from the time you go to bed. The human brain naturally starts shutting down for sleep two hours before we actually nod off. If you go to bed at this same hour each night, your mind and body will soon learn to feel tired.

Have a Light Snack

It is not advisable to eat a large meal before going to bed because the energy needed to digest it will disturb your sleep. However, a light snack is helpful so you don’t wake up hungry in the middle of the night! Good snack choices before bedtime are fruit, yoghurt, nuts and oats, all of which have high levels of melatonin.

Ditch the Digital Temptations

Did you know that all our modern gadgets (phones and TVs included) give off a strong blue light? This can keep you awake. If we're exposed to this light at night, the brain gets the message it's still daytime. That means less melatonin -- and consequently we find ourselves awake longer. It is quite common for our best advice to turn off your electronic devices at least one hour before beginning Nod Says. Let your brain wind down and prepare itself for bed.

Take a Hot Bath or Shower

Prior to going to sleep, our bodies produce a hormone named melatonin, which tells our bodies that it's time to start to sleep. Natural is the body's core temperature--at night, it falls on its own. By leaving a hot bath or shower you may experience your temperature drop, which produces a relaxed, sleepy feeling and benefits overall sleep in general.

Turn Down Your Thermostat

The significance of a cool sleeping surrounding has been substantiated in uncountable studies as among major factors toward deeper and longer sleep. A cool (if not cold) atmosphere makes for a good night's rest. Sleep experts advise us that it's best if the bedroom is kept at about 16-18 degrees Celsius or 65F to harmonize with your own body clock. Another means of encouraging a comfortable sleeping environment is to think about putting in a cooling mattress or pillow at your house. The Cool, Cool+ and Cloud Mattresses from Kushi Mattress & Bedding are specifically made with the most advanced cooling technology so that you can enjoy a cooler, fresher and deeper restful sleep every night!

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