Have you tried it all? Do you still have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep? We share our top App finds and tips with you!
Last week, we shared an article on how women need more sleep than men (Yes, that’s true) and following that now we want to help you tackle your sleep problems away! However, this is for all genders, men and women both! We don’t discriminate guys.
So are you reading this article because you are perpetually exhausted because of your sleep issues, have started forgetting things on a daily and are now making unhealthy food choices? You have tried melatonin, forcing yourself to stay up all day, tried all the desi totkas your mom and grandmother have passed down to you and YET, your sleep is still nowhere to be found? We picked the top 3 Applications that may help you sleep like a baby.
These Apps are a useful tool to help you relax and fall asleep faster. Sleep doctors and scientists have given mindfulness and meditation their expert approval to help people struggling with their sleep. These Apps incorporate meditation through music, nature sounds (White noise) and stories to help you relax and encourage you to improve your sleeping patterns.
Calm
Calm is quite a popular app with a 4.6 rating on the App store. It is a psychologist ,psychiatrist and sleep coach recommended app. Reviews from psychologist mention how they recommend them to their patients too. It’s a asleep, meditation and relaxation app with a very holistic approach.
With multiple options for meditations, sleep stories, narrated by Mathhew McConaughey (We just tried the app for that) , music of all sorts and masterclasses taught by experts around the world for relaxation, better sleep and more. The app is free to download with basic features, to access full features and variety, its paid. You can even try a 7 day trial.
Download the Calm App and begin your journey of calm.
Sleep Reset
An impressive digital personalized, sleep clinic designed with top sleep experts from leading sleep clinics. It includes CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapies) for Insomnia. The app scores your night’s sleep and provides you with recommendations to help you improve it, through your sleep patterns and habits. It further also helps you find possible root causes for our sleep issues and provides you with a custom program and guidance from a sleep coach. You can even take a free sleep assessment which quite detailed and takes into factor an array of issues.
Sleep Cycle
Sleep Cycle is a more analytical app which plays relaxing sounds while tracking our sleep. The App has a large library of sleep sounds, music, records sounds (If you’re possibly snoring and most importantly acts a sleep monitor recording your sleep activity.
What we find really cool about the app is it is programmed to gently wake one out of sleep when they are in their lightest sleep phase which may be best to help the person wake up feeling more rested and energetic to start the day.
Start analyzing your sleep now with Sleep Cycle.
You have had enough of tossing and turning all night and you think you have done everything right but a good sleep starts from the morning you wake up so making small changes in your daily routines might encourage better sleep, so start with these simple tips.
We Need More Exposure To Natural Light
Our bodies have a natural clock known as our circadian rhythm. This biological clock affects our brain, body and hormones! Natural sunlight or day light is needed to keep your circadian rhythm healthy, it improves daytime energy and also night sleep quality and duration.
According to a scientific study, daytime bright light exposure improved sleep quality and time in people suffering from Insomnia.
And Less Nighttime Exposure To Light
While exposure to light during the day is good but on the contrary, night time light exposure has an opposite effect.
What it does is, it tricks your circadian rhythm thinking it’s still day time which reduces the hormone melatonin which in turn helps you relax and get a better sleep.
This also include a major sleep disruptor in our time and age, blue light! People are hooked to their phones from the moment they wake up to the moment they hit the sack it is the most detrimental to a night of quality sleep. So it would be ideal if one wears glasses to block blue light if its urgent and stop watching tv and turn off bright lights 2 hours before bed.
Not Eating Too Late, Don’t Snack After Dinner
Eating too close to bed time can make it harder to fall asleep as it becomes harder for the body to digest dinner. So avoiding late dinners and minimizing especially fatty and spicy foods would be optimal!
Calm Down Before Bed With Some Yoga
Surveys suggest yoga reduces stress and promotes better sleep. Here are some yoga poses in detail to help you relax and sleep well tonight.
Avoiding Daytime Naps
Probably an obvious but if not, make note of not sleeping during the daytime because it will only make it harder to sleep well at night. If absolutely essential, then limit your naps to 20-30 minutes.
If you still haven’t read our Why Women Need More Sleep Than Men article, be sure to take a peak!
Sources: Glamour, Sleep Health Foundation
