A great and overlooked way to cure panic attacks is to focus on your sleep and to improve the quantity and quality of the sleep you’re getting. Try these 3 tips to do exactly that:
***Method #1. No More Negative Thinking In The Bedroom***
You experience far more worrying and anxious thoughts when you’re awake in bed than you do in any other situation. That’s a strange situation to be in when you think that your bedroom should be the place where you are most calm.
I’d feel confident guessing that worrying in bed troubles you most when you’re trying to fall asleep when you first get into bed, in the middle of the night if you wake up, and first thing in the morning before you get up.
So the key here is to eliminate as much of this “worry in bed” time as possible. The easiest one to solve is the worry in the morning, when you’re awake but you haven’t got up yet. The simple solution here is to get up the moment you wake up!
This may sound like a very simplistic solution a lot of your morning anxiety. Getting yourself up and out of bed so that your mind can’t find things to worry about will give you an excellent start to your day.
Finding a solution for the times when you worry during the night after you’ve woken up is slightly trickier, but there are still good methods. To begin with, always get up out of bed if you’re lying awake for more than 10 minutes. If you stay there in bed, in the dark and the silence, it’s only going to make your anxiety get worse.
Another great thing to do is to have a warm bath, or simply to splash your face with warm water. Or perhaps just wander around your home for a few moments, possibly tidying a few things away. Then just go back to bed. This approach works because it recreates a totally natural way of going to bed.
So instead of lying awake for hours you get up for a bit, and then finally when you return to bed you treat it as if you’re going to bed for the first time. This is much more natural for your body to accept than it is to lie there for hours when you can’t sleep. It’s far more likely that you’ll get back to sleep doing this than simply lying there.
The second sleeping mistake to eliminate to help cure your panic attacks is to allow no more constantly-changing schedules.
Sleeping problems of all kinds, not just those that are related to panic and anxiety problems, can be helped by making sure you stick to the same routine every single day.
Your own inner clock will almost immediately reset itself to the natural and healthy default if you just start going to bed and getting up at similar times each day. This will also correct things like hormone secretion, which often depends on your sleeping cycles.
You know that feeling of being constantly “burnt-out?” That’s often because your adrenal glands are working even when they should be resting. One of the common causes of this is an irregular sleeping schedule. Getting back into a regular routine will fix this and many other problems too.
So try your best to get to sleep every night at the same time, and also get up in the mornings at the same time. Be careful not to undo your good work by sleeping in late on weekends or on days when you don’t need to be up early.
The third way to get better sleep is to avoid all stimulants before you go to bed.
A lot of the problems that you currently have with your sleep could be to do with what you do right before you go to bed. Fast-paced TV, loud music, heavy reading, and playing video games are all very bad ideas in the last hour or two before you try to sleep.
So something you should try to do right now is to totally stop anything that stimulates you in the last hours before bed time. Make this a part of a new routine you adhere to before bed, where you try to slow things down.
Consciously begin to ease back on everything for the last hour before you go to bed. Stroll around like you’re on vacation. If you like to have a bedtime drink of some kind then sip it outside if it’s a nice night and enjoy the fresh air. If it’s too cold outside, curl up on the couch and relax for 20 minutes while you enjoy your drink.
I know that what I’m saying here sounds like it’s too obvious to work, but I can assure that this does work. And can you honestly say that you give yourself quality time like this?
If you’re someone who enjoy hot baths, then take one an hour before you go to bed. A warm bath always helps to ease your body into just the right state for deep and relaxed sleep. Incorporate this warm bath with the bedtime drink and use these new habits to build your own slow-down hour before bed, and see the wonders it can work on your sleep, and your panic attacks.
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