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 far more worrying and anxious thoughts when you’re awake in bed than you do in any other situation. That’s a weird 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 immediately after you go to bed, in the middle of the night after you’ve woken up, and maybe in the morning too, when you’ve woken up but you haven’t got out of bed yet.
So the key here is to eliminate as much of this “worry in bed” time as possible. The easiest one to solve is the worry in the morning, when you’re awake but you haven’t got up yet. The simple solution here is to get up the moment 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 start 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 solve, 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.
While you’re up, perhaps it would be good to have a shower or a bath – whichever you find more relaxing. Or just spend some time doing something that relaxes you, even if it’s just sitting down in the living room with a warm drink. After your little relaxation period, go back to bed. By getting up and waiting a while before going back to bed, it’s all much more natural and like the original time you went to bed.
By getting up when you’re awake, and going back to bed in this way after you’ve been doing something for a while, it’s far more like you’re going to bed for the first time. This is far more natural for your body, and you’re going to be able to get back to sleep much quicker than if you’d just stayed in bed the entire time.
The second sleeping mistake to eliminate to help cure your panic attacks is to allow no more constantly-changing schedules.
If you’re suffering with a sleep problem for any reason, not just one that’s caused by anxiety and panic, then sticking to the same schedule every day is great advice.
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.
Do you ever feel burnt out? In lots of cases, that will be because your adrenal glands are active at times when they shouldn’t be, and this is frequently caused by irregular sleeping cycles. If you can get your sleeping habits into a predictable routine, problems like this will usually disappear all on their own.
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 careful not to undo your good work by sleeping in late on weekends or on days when you don’t need to be up early.
***Method #3. No More Stimulants Before Bedtime***
Many of the problems that I had sleeping were because of what I was doing before I actually went to bed each night. I was often watching TV in bed right up until the moment I turned out the light and tried to sleep. This is a very bad idea! The same goes for any loud or heavy music, and even for reading if the subject is heavy or extreme.
So the first thing to do is eliminate anything stimulating for at least an hour before you go to bed. You should also not do any exercise at all for at least a couple of hours before bed. And try to develop a new pre-bed routine a “slow-down” routine, as I like to call it.
So go out of your way to take it easy. Behave like you’re on a vacation without a worry in the world. You know what relaxes you, so do that! Have a favourite bed time drink, do some light reading, sit outside in the fresh air if it’s warm. Anything to relax.
I know that what I’m saying here sounds like it’s too simple to work, but I can assure that this does work. And can you honestly say that you give yourself quality time like this?
If you’re a bath-taker, then whenever you can take one right before you get into bed. Make it warm, but never too hot. A warm bath has been proven in many studies to put the body in just the right state for great quality sleep. So make this slow winding-down hour a new part of your pre-bed routine. It can work unbelievably well when you’re not sleeping.
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