Sleeping Tips

Here is a collection of tips on sleep and how to encourage sleep. These tips work for some, but as we all have different life styles and sleeping patterns, it is not a recipe for all.
	If you have trouble sleeping you could try some of the tips and see do they work, or come up with similar methods that work for you. Be inspired!

Sleeping tips for troubled sleepers

Try to think positive! Believe you will have a good sleep.
No tea and coffee or any caffeine after 6pm.
Try to avoid smoking and alcohol near bed time.
Try to exercise early rather than late in the day.
Relax and don’t talk on the phone after 9pm if possible.
Brush teeth before watching late TV or lying down to read, as getting up to wash your teeth after snoozing off may wake you and it will be hard to get back to sleep.
If you find watching TV relaxes you enough to send you to sleep it would be a good idea to get a TV for your bedroom.
If you like reading try going to bed early and read a good book.
Try to go to bed before 12am. Going to bed later than 12 can be bad for your sleep pattern, you can get a second awake and it is hard then to switch off again.
Try to keep stress level down, find something that relaxes you and stay that way at night to encourage sleep.
Sunday nights can be the worst nights for sleep if you have work or school the next day so plan an early night.
Have your bedroom a nice cool temperature. If you are too hot it may be hard to sleep, but cold feet will keep you awake. As we are all different it is hard to give a set temperature, so try to find the right temperature for your bedroom.
Do not drink too much water at night as trips to the toilet can wake you.
Massage lavender cream into your temples, wrist and chest so you can breathe in the scent. It will make you drowsy and hopefully send you off to slumber land.