One of the best ways to cure panic attacks is to improve the quality of your sleep, and here are 3 methods for doing just that.
***Method #1. No More Negative Thinking In The Bedroom***
You experience much more worrying and anxious thoughts when you’re awake in bed than you do in any other situation. That’s a strange situation to be in when you think that your bedroom should be the place where you are most calm.
You’ll probably find that this problem is at its worst at 3 particular times: when you’re lying awake right after you go to bed, in the middle of the night after you’ve woken up, and maybe in the morning as well, when you’ve woken up but you haven’t got out of bed yet.
To stop these situations, you need to prevent as much of your “worrying in bed” time as you can. The simplest one to cure is the one where you’re lying in bed in the morning after you’ve awoken. All you need to do is get up as soon as you wake up!
This may sound like a very simplistic eliminate a lot of your morning anxiety. Getting yourself up and out of bed so that your mind can’t find things to worry about will give you an excellent beginning to your day.
Okay, now to stop those occasions when you worry in the middle of the night after waking up. I’ll confess, this one’s slightly tricky to cure, but there are solid methods you can use. Right away I should tell you that if you’re ever awake for more than a few minutes, get up right away. Staying in bed won’t solve anything, and will probably triple your anxiety.
Another great thing to do is to have a warm bath, or simply to splash your face with cold water. Or perhaps just wander around your home for a few minutes, possibly tidying a few things away. Then just go back to bed. This approach works because it recreates a totally natural way of going to bed.
So instead of lying awake for hours you get up for a bit, and then finally when you return to bed you treat it as if you’re going to bed for the first time. This is much more natural for your body to accept than it is to lie there for hours when you can’t sleep. It’s far more likely that you’ll get back to sleep doing this than simply lying there.
***Method #2. No More Ever-Changing Schedules***
Sleeping problems of all kinds, not just those that are related to panic and anxiety disorders, can be eased by making sure you adhere to the same routine every single day.
And yes, by doing nothing more than going to bed and getting up at the same times, every single day, your internal clock will go back to normal and your sleeping can’t fail to improve. You’ll also correct any problems with things like irregular hormone release, which can be affected by bad sleep habits.
I bet you know that feeling that you’re completely burnt out, right? Well, that is frequently a result of your adrenal glands being out of whack. One of the few ways to correct a problem like that is to get some good sleeping habits sorted out.
So try your best to get to sleep every night at the same time, and also get up in the mornings at the same time. Be wary not to undo your good work by sleeping in late on weekends or on days when you don’t need to be up early.
The third method to get improved sleep is to avoid all stimulants before you go to bed.
A lot of the problems that you currently have with your sleep could be to do with what you do right before you go to bed. Fast-paced TV, loud music, heavy reading, and playing video games are all really bad ideas in the last hour or two before you try to sleep.
So something you should try to do right now is to totally stop anything that stimulates you in the last hours before bed time. Make this a part of a new routine you stick to before bed, where you try to slow things down.
Consciously begin to ease back on everything for the last hour before you go to bed. Stroll around like you’re on vacation. If you like to have a bedtime drink of some kind then sip it outside if it’s a nice night and enjoy the fresh air. If it’s too cold outside, curl up on the couch and relax for 20 minutes while you enjoy your drink.
These types of suggestions might seem basic, but do you ever genuinely give yourself time in this way? Even if you do, you probably don’t do it often enough.
If you like warm baths then incorporate that into your routine. Warm baths are known to promote deep and relaxing sleep, which is just the kind of sleep that cures panic attacks and fights off panic generally. A warm bath will be an excellent addition to your new “calm down” hour before bed.
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