How To Get To Sleep Faster – The Problem
A friend of mine asked me recently if I know how to get to sleep faster. Sometimes my friend falls asleep soon after going to bed, sometimes he doesn’t. I know it’s difficult to generalise where sleep problems are mentioned and I can only write about what happens in the example of my friend’s sleep problem. He doesn’t want to keep a sleep diary, so his sleep pattern is recalled from memory.
When it comes to resolving any sleep problem it is a matter of trial and error, in finding what works and what doesn’t. In my friend’s case, and I shall call him Jim, he wasn’t getting much physical exercise so I suggested he slowly start to take regular exercise, and he agreed to walk for fifteen minutes a day, in the late afternoon. There was no special reason for choosing that time of day, other than that was the time that suited him best. I reasoned that natural tiredness brought on by physical exercise encourages natural sleep.
After keeping up with this exercise regime for a week he said it had started to make a difference at night, in that he had become more tired and getting to sleep faster had become easier. When he told me this I was pleased, because he had always looked tired when I saw him. I had warned him not to take his exercise too near bedtime as this could work against him and stop him going to sleep and he took my advice.
For Jim this was just one step along a long road to getting back to his natural sleep pattern. The question of how to get to sleep faster is not an easy one to answer.
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