Here’s the problem. You put your body to bed, but your brain’s not having it. Even though you lay yourself down, your mind spins with all the things you have to do, need to do, and may have forgotten!
Plus, the first 20 minutes of trying to get to sleep are the most critical. If you miss that window because your thoughts are still spinning from the day, you’re far less likely to get there. So the problem seems to be that all those noisy to-do’s are in your head, rattling around. If you could only put THEM to bed, you would be better able to get to sleep.
Do A Brain Dump
One excellent habit you can adopt to get to sleep at night is to move your worries and that infinite to-do list out of your head and onto a notebook or journal. Once it’s written onto the page, you know where it is so you don’t have to worry about remembering them. That frees up your brain, and puts your stress to bed too!
There’s actually research showing that making a nighttime list of to-do items helps with the quality of your sleep! Subjects were assigned a task to write down what they had done that day, and what they needed to do the next day.
What’s super interesting about this is that the more detailed their to-do list was, the faster they fell asleep. Once it is out of your brain and onto the paper, you can supplement this brain dump with a pre-bed meditation that can help clear those cobwebs before heading off to sleep.
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