Help me Sleep!
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Help me Sleep is one of the most searched phrases about sleep with over 20 million monthly searches worldwide! Why is everyone asking how to help me sleep?
That is enormous! I can’t believe how many people have trouble sleeping!
I never have trouble sleeping! Maybe the odd occasion when my mind is racing because I’m so excited about something, but generally I don’t need any help to help me sleep because I sleep like a baby
How can we sleep better?
To me, the quality of your sleep is determined by how well you can let your mind relax! Being able to switch off is the key to a good nights sleep.
Top 10 Ways to Help me sleep better:
- Reduce screen time before bed
- Exercise to enhance sleep
- Eat to enhance sleep
- Master the power nap
- Avoid the soul-shattering alarm buzzer
- Solve problems in your sleep
- Beat insomnia with visualisation
- Shortcut a long nap with the clattering spoon
- Take a caffeine power nap
- Teach yourself to lucid dream
Key habits I use to help me sleep
My lifestyle pretty much sets the tone.
I am a big believer of living a healthy lifestyle. I am very conscious of my own health and well being and take it very seriously.
If we are able to live healthy lifestyles and keep our mind, body and spirit in balance then everything works well. Sleep is a natural state and we need a good 6-8hrs per night!
Sleep is when our body recovers. Its when we grow and get stronger. Its when our system cleanses itself. The Liver cleans and nourishes our blood when we sleep. It boosts are immune system and keeps our bodies fresh and invigorated! This is why you are asking how to help me sleep! Your body is screaming out from the inside!
Lack of sleep is so detrimental to our health! Our focus and strength will suffer, our energy will be low, if we get sick, you will be bed ridden for days. If you keep starving your body of sleep, you will just shut down and be bed ridden for days until you are fully “rebooted”.
I believe the key to a good nights sleep is a healthy and happy lifestyle. If you live a healthy lifestyle you be screaming help me sleep!
What are the keys to a healthy and happy lifestyle?
I believe one of the keys is to maintain balance in your life.
Balance is very hard for most people. Most people are generally working long hours, generally do not get to spend too much quality time with their families and generally get home and are too tired to even think about exercising.
Gaining control over your day to day living is one of the keys to balance in your life.
How do we gain control?
What is the most uncontrollable thing you do day in and day out? What is the one thing you cannot do without? What stresses you and bores you the most at the same time? What TRAP are you in?
The answers to these are your JOB!
Most people cannot live the lifestyle of their choice because they are too trapped in the job that they work!
Nobody generally enjoys their jobs, they are generally very stressful and time consuming. But you cannot simply just Quit and stop doing your job because you don’t like that one. You have bills to pay, the mortgage or rent to pay, you need money for food and your activities. Your job supports your lifestyle. You are generally trapped in debt and need the money to keep surviving.
If that income is cut off then what would you do?
These are all fears that are in the back of your head. These are what control you! This is what you have to gain control of!
Fear is an emotion. Nothing more or nothing less. We can control our emotions.
Fear is developed through what you have been taught and what you have experienced throughout your life. People project their own fears onto you, and then you take on that fear subconsciously. Living a life of fear is not living the life of a healthy and happy lifestyle. It is the opposite.
When we QUIET the MIND, the SYMPHONY begins!
This quote refers to what happens when you are thinking to yourself. You may be just about to go to sleep, but then you start thinking, and thinking, and thinking! The “symphony” begins! This is when all of your fears and thoughts come to fruition. Your mind goes berserk!
To conquer this “symphony” we need to train our minds. We need to eliminate the fear that is controlling our lives. We need to use the greatest asset that we all have!
Our minds are quite remarkable! No two minds are a like. Our mind is limitless. Our mind controls our beliefs, our thoughts, our emotions, our everything! If we learn how to train the mind so that we can make the most of it, we can take control! We can direct our lives how we want, we can achieve anything we desire!
I have been practicing martial arts for about 10 years now, and one quote that is constantly repeated is:
Lead with the mind and the body will follow. Everything starts in the mind!
Martial Arts is truly about developing the mind and body link. Only when the mind and body are linked, the spirit can soar! This is the mind, body and spirit connection.
An excellent martial art that anyone can practice (even old people do it) is called Tai Chi.
Tai Chi is one of the best forms of exercise that anyone can do. It is slow and relaxed and teaches you about the principles of balance and harmony, in the mind, body and spirit. You will not need to ask to help me sleep if you practice Tai Chi!
Tai Chi or Tai Chi Chuan (its full name) actually translates to “Grand Ultimate Fist” and is a type of martial art that focuses on the inside and works to the outside. True Tai Chi is very very powerful! It is generally circular in motion and uses centripetal force. The concepts of Tai Chi go far beyond what you might think it is. I will post more about Tai Chi in a later post.
Tai Chi is great for learning how to relax and flow. You have to learn how to control your body and coordinate your movements with your breath. Learning how to control the breath is one of the key concepts of meditation. Meditation is practiced for many different reasons but to truly meditate you need to be in a relaxed state of mind and body.
Learning these concepts are great ways to help improve your sleep quality!
When you start training the mind, it begins to open more and more, you start to see things around you differently and you start to see things for what they truly are. An example of this is that you start to see that your fear is just an emotion that is controlling you. You can actually just let your fears go! You gain a greater understanding on life!
This is what I practice. I practice Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Qigong and Meditation. I learn how to conquer my fears, deal with emotions and learn how to see things for what they really are. This is the power of the mind!
The Empower Network teaches us the power of our minds also. The Empower Network teaches us how we can take back the Power of our lives, of our Destiny’s.
Working a day to day job is detrimental to our lives. It controls us, it abuses us and it crushes our Spirits! You will be screaming help me sleep!
When you are working a job, you are working for money. You are trading your time and your livelihood for money! You need to learn how to reverse this, and learn how to leverage time and money to your advantage! You can turn the tables and make money work for you! Money is just an idea in your mind, and when you can learn to see this, you can change your ideas in your mind. There is an abundant amount of money in this world! But how come only 1% of the worlds population make 90% of the money? Their minds are not limited! Their ideas are limitless! They can control their minds and take control of their destiny.
They know what they want and they go for it! They have no fears, no doubts, no excuses and no limits. They would not be asking how to help me sleep!
If we can learn to take control of our minds then we too can achieve these things! Everything starts with the Mind!
To Help me Sleep, I make sure I regularly get 6-8hrs every night. to refresh the mind and body! Feed the mind with good thoughts and take control of your life!
Click on the link below to learn how you can take control of your life!
wow 1500 words on how to help me sleep lol!