Sleeping Faster & Sleeping Better

A nice article with tips on getting to sleep faster & sleeping better:

For practically all my life I’ve had trouble going to sleep. I’m not an insomniac… I just think a lot. I’ll lie in bed thinking about what I want to do tomorrow or what I should have done today or how much I love eating cold pizza or how absurdly messy my desk is, you get the idea. And when I say I have trouble going to sleep… I’m not talking 20 or 30 minutes… I’m talking 2 or 3 hours. Because what will happen is after about 45 minutes to an hour of trying to go to sleep, I start thinking about how I’m not asleep but I should be and thus the cycle begins.

Now, I may be a bit of an extreme case here, but I know for a fact that there are others out there who have trouble going to sleep. So, I’ve pieced together various bits of advice I’ve received over the past few months that have not only helps me get to sleep faster, but helps me get a better nights sleep.

1. Don’t watch TV or even so much as look at a computer screen atleast 30 minutes before you lie down.
2. Drink milk.
3. Go to bed when you are tired.
4. Reserve the bed for bed things.
5. Meditate.
6. Exercise during the day.