Maintain Good Sleeping Habits With A Sleep Journal

If you want to encourage and maintain good sleeping habits and avoid insomia, you must first get to know and understand them.  Keeping a sleep diary or journal for a week, or even two, is an effective way of doing this.  Equip yourself with a notebook and pen.

We all have our own individual sleep patterns and habits, our good times and bad times.  General rules and guidelines have been established through research by sleep specialists. However, each individual has his or her own peculiarities.  You must understand your own before you can improve and maintain the quality of your skeep.

Writing It Down

Equip yourself with a notebook and pen and always keep them by your bed.  Make a meticulous note of every detail of your sleeping habits for at least a week or, better still, two weeks: when you want to go to bed in the evening, what you dream about, which nights you sleep well, how you feel when you wake up.  Gradually you will be able to draw up your own sleep profile.  The information will help you choose the best ways to improve your sleep and the best times to take action.

Beating Insomia – Did you know…

1.  You should try to sleep for eight hours each night.  The most beneficial hours of sleep occur before midnight.  A heavy meal can disturb your sleep.

2.  There are no set rules about sleep.  What disrupts one person's sleep could encourage another's/

3.  The most important thing is to wake up full of energy whether you went to bed early or late, slept for several hours or just a few, on a full or empty stomach.