Helping you get to sleep!
If anyone is having trouble going to sleep, I highly recommend this app called Deep Sleep with Andrew Johnson.https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deep-sleep-andrew-johnson/id337349999?mt=8 It's $3 on iTunes, but you can also get it on Google Play and Android and I think just online in general (though you have to pay in British Pounds). I got another one of his apps to help me with test anxiety and relaxing. Most of the time with this app, if I have headphones in my ears, I wake up with the headphones still in in the morning because I fell asleep within 21 minutes or less. Check it out! Hope this helps and may you all sleep well.
I've always found that the majority of people who struggle to fall asleep at night-- it is because your brain can't turn off. Studies show that playing on your phone or watching tv right before bed prevents you from being able to fall asleep promptly. So, when I want to fall asleep well at night I usually make myself a cup of soothing chamomile tea with honey and read a few chapters out of the book that I am currently reading. This allows my brain to slowly shut down and by the point of me turning the light off-- I'm out!
Hope that helps!
I've found if I'm reading something interesting and exciting while in bed it can worsen insomnia. Trying to keep my bed as a sleep only location has helped condition my brain to prepare to sleep while I'm in that location. Having electronics at least 5 ft away from the bed helps too but I'm not sure of the science of why that helps. A nightly ritual of relaxing exercises will help too for most people.
