Natural Sleep Aids - Music to Help You Sleep
When you're ready to go to sleep, you want your body to be ready to go to sleep, too.
Insomnia rears its ugly head when your body says, "Not yet, you idiot! I'm way too tense to sleep now.
" Whether your sleep disorder is caused by personality clashes at work, a fight you just had with your spouse or sleep partner, or the mounting stack of bills that lay on your desk unpaid, it you're too stressed to sleep, then you're just plain too stressed! There are any number of sleep aids available to help you get your body in the mood for sleep.
Over-the-counter drugs, prescription medications, and assorted treatments and therapy are available for you to choose from.
One of the natural sleep aids highly worth consideration is music to help you sleep.
Underlying Theory If you're tense, muscles tight, jaw clenched in anger, or fingers clenched in worry, then you're in no condition to lie down and drift off peacefully to sleep.
And you probably know it, too.
Anything you can do to calm down and relax; anything you can do to set aside your worries and distractions; anything, in short, which calms your mind, body, and spirit will help you achieve the levels of sleep that rejuvenate your body and restore your mind.
You should take note, too, that using music as a natural sleep aid will not leave you with a dangerous addiction to either over-the-counter or prescription medications.
And if you find yourself addicted to 45 minutes of music before bed, you probably won't even think of it as an addiction -- just a pleasant interlude the precedes your pleasant night of rest.
Why Music? Well, for one thing, you probably have music on hand which has a personal, calming, happy memory for you.
Jazz, rock, country, or bagpipes, if it has a calming effect on you, then it may be just the thing to listen to before bed.
Research has shown that your sense of relaxation and calmness can be significantly increased through the use of relaxing music for 45 minutes or so before you go to bed.
Children tend to do best with gentle, lulling music.
Adults, on the other hand, differ widely in terms of what music stimulates and what music calms them.
The secret in using music to help you sleep seems to lie in seeking to find just which arrangements work best for you.
Alternatively, you may find it most relaxing to spend some of your pre-bedtime minutes creating music rather than listening to it.
You may find yourself composing gentle, relaxing melodies that calm you down.
Or, helpful for some, you may find that creating highly stimulating -- even angry -- sounds will help you release the emotions troubling you and keeping you awake.
In addition to helping you get to sleep faster, music before bedtime has also been shown to result in a better quality of sleep -- deeper REM sleep and, consequently, a greater sense of feeling completely restored when rising the next morning.
Insomnia rears its ugly head when your body says, "Not yet, you idiot! I'm way too tense to sleep now.
" Whether your sleep disorder is caused by personality clashes at work, a fight you just had with your spouse or sleep partner, or the mounting stack of bills that lay on your desk unpaid, it you're too stressed to sleep, then you're just plain too stressed! There are any number of sleep aids available to help you get your body in the mood for sleep.
Over-the-counter drugs, prescription medications, and assorted treatments and therapy are available for you to choose from.
One of the natural sleep aids highly worth consideration is music to help you sleep.
Underlying Theory If you're tense, muscles tight, jaw clenched in anger, or fingers clenched in worry, then you're in no condition to lie down and drift off peacefully to sleep.
And you probably know it, too.
Anything you can do to calm down and relax; anything you can do to set aside your worries and distractions; anything, in short, which calms your mind, body, and spirit will help you achieve the levels of sleep that rejuvenate your body and restore your mind.
You should take note, too, that using music as a natural sleep aid will not leave you with a dangerous addiction to either over-the-counter or prescription medications.
And if you find yourself addicted to 45 minutes of music before bed, you probably won't even think of it as an addiction -- just a pleasant interlude the precedes your pleasant night of rest.
Why Music? Well, for one thing, you probably have music on hand which has a personal, calming, happy memory for you.
Jazz, rock, country, or bagpipes, if it has a calming effect on you, then it may be just the thing to listen to before bed.
Research has shown that your sense of relaxation and calmness can be significantly increased through the use of relaxing music for 45 minutes or so before you go to bed.
Children tend to do best with gentle, lulling music.
Adults, on the other hand, differ widely in terms of what music stimulates and what music calms them.
The secret in using music to help you sleep seems to lie in seeking to find just which arrangements work best for you.
Alternatively, you may find it most relaxing to spend some of your pre-bedtime minutes creating music rather than listening to it.
You may find yourself composing gentle, relaxing melodies that calm you down.
Or, helpful for some, you may find that creating highly stimulating -- even angry -- sounds will help you release the emotions troubling you and keeping you awake.
In addition to helping you get to sleep faster, music before bedtime has also been shown to result in a better quality of sleep -- deeper REM sleep and, consequently, a greater sense of feeling completely restored when rising the next morning.
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