Get Better Sleep

High quality sleep gives your body time to rest and recuperate.

The benefits of good sleep are:

- Reduce sugar and coffee cravings

- Sort, process and keep memories

- Think clearly :-)

- Be emotionally stable and grounded

- Allow your body to rest, recuperate from the daily grind

- Clean itself out (let go of what you don’t need - physically and emotionally)

Healthy Lifestyle Tip:

To get the best sleep:

1. laugh a lot

2. relax

3. make love ;-)

This is how to encourage your body to prepare for restful sleep all throughout the day.

1) LAUGH ~ Time to loosen up

• There’s nothing more relaxing for your whole body than to have a deep belly laugh or some silly giggles.

• I love watching a short comedy clip or texting “smack” with a funny friend.

2) RELAX ~ Create a beautiful bedtime routine

Try one or all of these to create your own sacred bedtime routine

• Wash your face and lotion your entire face and body with a lovely lavender lotion. Make sure to rub every part of you while being fully present and connected to yourself.

• Sit quietly for 2 minutes and ask yourself “what’s the best thing that happened today?”

• Breathe deeply into your belly for 2 minutes

• Journal for 5 minutes

3) MAKE LOVE ~ it just works

• It works solo too ;-)

If that was too TOUCHY FEELY for you…

Go with technology and science. Monitor your sleep with a tracker and an app. 

I was having trouble sleeping and it didn’t know how bad it was until I got a sleep tracker (aka fitness tracker.)

Here’s what I learned. I was in bed for 8.5 hours, but only sleeping deeply for 4 and I was waking up about 8-10 times a night. That enabled me to know the real story and so I could look for a way to deal with it.

Every day I kept track of what helped me to sleep better at night and what made my sleep worse.

What helped me to sleep BETTER:

1. laughing

2. connection

3. body contact

4. meditation with my calm app during the day

5. walk home

6. exercise before 2 p.m.

7. lunch with a good friend

8. a bath

What made me sleep WORSE:

1. wine

2. Netflix series

3. talking about my day with my partner (my brain would start problem solving and not sleep.)

4. exercising after 7 p.m.

5. eating too much

6. eating too little

7. drinking tea before bed

8. overthinking a situation

This blog post is Inspired from the amazing book called The Body Doesn’t Lie by Vicky Vlachonis.