For many adults, getting a good night rest has become a luxury.
After engaging in a lot of activities during the day, your body behind to crave for some rest, but it doesn’t come cheap.
Remember when you were little and all that you needed was for you parent to tuck you in bed, read you a story and off you go – away into Dreamland.
That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore now that you are all grown up and you find yourself wishing that you could go back in time.
Sleep is very important. A good nights rest does a lot to reset the body’s functions including your mind, muscles, and your general awareness of your surroundings.
As easy as falling asleep may sound, it can be very difficult to achieve even for the most tired bodies.
If you are reading this, chances are that you have tried different methods to induce sleep.
You have tried medication, but you stumbled on an article that has warned against relying on sleep medication so you had to quit.
What about organic or home remedies? You have had many glasses of hot milk, but you just can’t bring yourself to sleep.
Some have suggested eliminating all forms of lighting in your room and that includes the light on the alarm, but the problem persists. But have you tried reading?
You don’t really need time
We know that you think it might not make much sense to consider reading as a method to get you to sleep.
You probably think that you do not have the time to flip through the pages of a book before bed.
As a matter of fact, you really do not need that much time to read a page or two and finally get a good snooze.
There is science to back this up and show how it actually works.
Research has revealed that all that you might need is as little as six minutes of reading before bed.
What this does is it reduces your stress levels by 68% – which will, in turn, put you in the right condition to fall asleep quickly and stay asleep longer.
There are no magical fixes for issues like lack of sleep, so there are obviously no magical books with words that will knock you into sleep once you read them out loud.
It is a very simple and straightforward principle – once you eliminate the cause of your lack of sleep, which can be stress in many cases, then sleep becomes easier to achieve.
It has less to do with the story or the content of the book or reading material, and more with the activity itself (flipping pages and following the lines of text).
Setting aside up to 20 minutes every night and incorporating reading into the activities you engage in before going to bed will help you sleep earlier and longer.
Try to stay away from your smartphones and late night television as they can contribute to your lack of sleep.