Insomnia can be very upsetting and can affect your health.  Preventing sleep disorders with some easy tricks may be helpful.  Humans appear to have tupical sleeping and waking patterns.  when removed from artificial stimulation like camping without television or radios, people tend to wake at dawn and fall asleep when they first become tired after sunset.  Sleeping in alignment with these tendencies can enhance the quality of your rest.

To avoid insomnia, try the following for one week.  Set your alarm to rise at or just before sunrise (before 6am).  Get up immediately and go for a walk or do some light exercise for 30 minutes or more.  Eat your largest meal in the middle of the day and eat a light meal early in the evening, preferably a salad or something as easily digested.  Eating your largest meal in the middle of the day gives you time to diest it before bedtime and can help insomnia be eliminated.  Go to bed as close to sunset as possible.  You may find reading will help you to become drowsy.  I wouldn’t suggest a Stephen King novel however.

If these techniques work, drop me a line at drcarol@megahits.com or leave a comment to this blog.  Perhaps others will try it as well.