Sleep Like A Toddler Every Night With This 12 Point Plan

By Liz Beresford | February 1, 2010

Want to finally put an end to sleepless nights and exhausting days? You can! Sleep is natural and barring new babies and other unavoidable disturbances we can all get the sleep we need every night if we make some simple little changes in our lives.

When you were a small child I bet you didn’t have sleepless nights, did you? So why do little children sleep so well? Well, for one thing they don’t go to bed and worry about tomorrow’s problems. They go to bed when its dark and go to sleep when they are tired.

Alarm clocks are not needed, little kids wake when they have had enough sleep, even if Mom hasn’t. Oh yes, they don’t have to work long hours and mostly they don’t smoke or drink coffee. What about exercise? Have you ever tried to keep up with a two year old?

Can you see a few problems with our grown up lifestyles? Ever since Edison invented the light bulb its been downhill all the way. He and his successors made it possible for us to keep going 24 hours a day. Night and day make no impact when we can simply turn on the lights. Its not realistic to think we can go back to the days before electric lights, computers, mobile phones and all the rest, but we can take a few pointers from our past.

See if you can make these simple changes in your lifestyle so that you can sleep better every night. This is your “Sleep Like A Toddler 12 Point Plan”

1. No caffeine after 4.00pm

2. Don’t smoke or use nicotine replacements in the hour before bedtime.

3. Have a milk drink and a sandwich or small cookie at bedtime.

4. At least 30 minutes exercise will help a lot but don’t exercise just before bedtime.

5. Don’t keep working all evening, relax for at least an hour before going to bed.

6. Don’t expose yourself to light in the late evening, that includes your computer screen.

7. Relax in bed and don’t think about your problems.

8. Learn some relaxation techniques such as PMR or meditation and do them daily.

9. Go to bed at the same time every night allowing yourself 8 hours of sleep time.

10. At the weekend and go to bed and get up at the same time as you do during the week.

11. While regulating your sleep don’t stay out late even on social occasions.

12. Don’t use sleeping pills, they impair you more than tiredness does.

If you carry out these tips you will surely be sleeping a lot more like a toddler than you are right now.

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