Don't Stay In Bed
If you're having difficulty falling asleep, don't stay under the covers in hopes of somehow becoming drowsy, says Nitun Verma, M.D., a sleep specialist and the medical director of the Washington Township Center for Sleep Disorders in Fremont, Calif. "You don't want to lie in bed and frown your eyebrows and force yourself to sleep," Dr. Verma explains. "That almost universally backfires." Instead, get up and try to <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/sleep/sleep-in-america-poll-the-exercise-sleep-link.aspx" target="_blank">find an activity</a> that is somewhere between stimulating and boring, like reading a few chapters from a favorite book. "You're trying to guide your mind into focusing on something, but not something overly exciting," he says. After you've done that for a while, get back into bed and see if it puts an end to insomnia.
via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/30/insomnia-treatment-mistakes_n_2979519.html?utm_hp_ref=healthy-living
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