Improve Your Sleep

 

It cost me many years of insomnia to find a few essential tools to help getting a more sound sleep.
I love coffee and I still drink it with great pleasure in the mornings.
When my four children were small I had a time for myself after having put them to bed and the kitchen was cleaned up after the day. The time would be 9:30 PM.
How I enjoyed a big cup of coffee and wondered why I was wide awake hours after!

It took med ten years to realize that sacrificing this late cup of coffee would help me to sleep earlier. I am sure people addictive to Coca Cola and sodas like that would have the same experience.

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I learnt another thing that help getting a sound sleepĀ and that is not to eat dinner too late. It can be hard to live up to as I love to go to fitness classes at dinner time.
A ready prepared dinner can solve the problem and having a weekly plan for dinners is really a brilliant idea.
lately I discovered that these pieces of advice didn’t help enough and I was again very awake late at night.
One evening I just read an interesting good old-fashioned book and got back the nice sleepy feeling that is so essential before sleeping.
From now on I will not spend the evening with my head in the computer screen or iPad. The light from the screen is disturbing the brain, when exposed to it before bedtime.

I am sure children also will get a healthier sleep, if they are taught to let their electronic devises be turned off in the evening. But it will take brave and consequent parents to make that happen.

Marie & baby Esther

Lack of sleep can lead to mental illness like depression or aggression or lack of concentration. It might also make you more vulnerable towards physical illnesses.

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  1. Thank you Carrie LeBlanc! What is Monsters?
    I also drink a lot of herbal teas and sometimes make my own on bits of ginger in hot water. Every morning I squeeze half a lemon and mix with a big glass of water. Then I wake up! Put some of the inside of the peel on my face and rinse after some minutes.

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