Stress Relief for a Good Night’s Sleep

In today’s world, there are a million things that could keep you from sleeping soundly. Perhaps you’ve been hearing about the latest pesticide that causes cancer. Maybe you have heard that the lettuce from Argentina or some other country is contaminated.  Or, you could be thinking about someone in your family and what can be done to change or set things right again.

All of these thoughts can go whirling around your head, time and again, night after night, with new reports replacing the old ones. Bedtime musing may be helpful once in a while, but when it persists and you don’t get a good amount of that deep sleep, life generally becomes more difficult.  You may wonder how you can go back to sleeping well.

Concerns and questions that we chew on tend to linger and create a viewpoint that the world “isn’t really on our side”, is “dangerous” at most, and “uncertain” any way you look at it. Stress starts its overnight visits with you, in your bed.

Our good old reptilian brain is made to face the lion and fight or flee.  Just imagine seeing a snake on your back doorstep and how you would respond. It’s almost automatic—the mind/body connection moves you in one direction or another, and with great speed.

So, what do we do about the worry, the uncertainty, that daily deluge of information that might or might not be harmful to us personally? You can’t really get away from it and it’s hard to know how to fight it.  TV ads will tell you to take the latest sleep aide. These have their place but do not get at the real cause of stress-induced loss of sleep.

There is an easier way to calm the mind and bring restful sleep back to your life. For a glimpse, visit the Stress Page on our site and let the ideas for stress relief begin to percolate. You certainly won’t lose any sleep with the ideas we present there.   More next week on the Real Solution to losing sleep to stress.