Keep minimum brightness on your phone. Turn off lights. Put on earphones and play a familiar soft songs. It has helped me. Most important, go for long walk after dinner, it will make you feel tired and help to sleep. I try all these steps. Always pay attention to your body. When eyes feel heavy, put the phone down and shut your eyes.
The hard part of any job is the "start" looking at phone dont make your eyes ready for sleep. Instead read a book, newspaper or your daily report; reading some paper sheet prepare you for sleep. A good sleep.
Drink some warm water or tea without sugar, it helps your body relax. Also put on socks before getting into bed, if your feet are warm than your body starts to go to sleep. Finally, try not to use your phone 20-30 minutes before bed, the blue light from the srceen doesn’t let your brain/eyes rest. Good luck!
Substitute the phone with a book. Think about the bags under your eyes you’ll have in the morning. Tell yourself that if you stop now and sleep, you’ll be able to wake up earlier and enjoy a nice quiet morning to yourself and will most likely have a more productive day. Get things done!
Turning off badges, sounds, notifications, and taking it one day at a time. Depending on the e-Mails, you could unsubscribe from unnecessary things, realizing that making a connection with your friends / family via texting, calling, or video chat, is MUCH more personal and appreciated over what is just scrolling / stalking/ lurking and telling yourself that a person posting must mean they’re okay.
Turn off the cell phone and put it on the other side of the room. In this way it would be also easier to get up the next morning since the alarm will be far.
Make your priorities that you have to wakeup early tomorrow to do something and for that you have to sleep early and remove your distractions ..
Try to keep a good book by your side or something that that won’t keep you awake for hours. And try drinking tea or warm beverage before you go to sleep (No coffee or things with to much caffeine) I personally like Chamomile tea.
We sometimes scroll phone meaninglessly when we feel anxiety or fear. Maybe you often get anxious about tomorrow. Or your fear of insomnia itself make you more restless. Try some other activities. Pet your dog, play guitar, draw what you like etc. Something easy, something you like to do and make you concentrate on simply one thing. Keep it simple and comfortable. When your mind is at peace, you will have good sleep.
I have an app called "stay focused" that shuts down all of my social media apps at a certain time. Works for me because I have zero self-control, lol.
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