5 Reasons That You Can't Sleep at Night

Are you one of those who have trouble getting to sleep night after night? If yes, it can be for any (or all) of the following reasons:

1. Trying to fall asleep

It is right to try to fall asleep is one of the biggest reason is that prevents you from actually falling asleep. This is because you subject your brain to "not sleep" when you go to bed. Therefore, the easiest way to fall asleep is to re-educate your brain into falling asleep as soon as you lie down.

2. Fear insomnia

Did you have to worry about not getting enough sleep is about the worst thing you can do at night? So tonight when you go to bed, if you find yourself asking if you want another bad night's sleep, just think of yourself "so what?" what's the worst that will happen? By not making a big deal out of it, you will find it easier to relax and before you know it, you'll be fast asleep.

3. Worrying Your Night Away

You do not have to suffer from depression to find yourself worrying the night away in bed, whatever the problem is to keep you awake, it's usually a lot less of a problem the next morning. This can then become a regular mental association of starting to worry as soon as you turn the light off. The trick is to replace the bad connection with an automatic habit of falling asleep instead.

4. Succumb to fatigue

A trap which many people fall into is to start taking things easy when they feel tired. The problem here is what is known as body temperature cycle. During the day, which you consume energy, your body temperature rises and you feel wide awake. Conversely, if you have a healthy sleep cycle, your body temperature starts to drop at night, you will begin to yawn and feel sleepy. This does not happen with Insomniac; the temperature will not rise high enough during the day, or drop enough at night, resulting in fragmented sleep. The answer here is to get exercise during the day to raise body temperature, so like a pendulum swings, it will then drop lower at night, to a good night's sleep to be taken.

5. Spend too much time in bed

A very popular myth is that of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, everyone needs eight hours sleep each night. The fact is around 20% of people actually get on very well on six hours or less per night. Often when you've had a bad night's sleep, you hit the snooze button tomorrow to try to make up hours. What you are actually doing is messing with your biological clock and putting back your sleep cycle. Next time you go to bed at your usual hour, that would be too early for your body clock, you will not get to sleep and you'll start worrying, the whole cycle starts over again.