3 Ways To Cure Panic Attacks With High Quality Sle
When you want to cure panic attacks, one of the best things you can do is improve the quality of sleep you’re having, and here are three good ways to achieve 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 weird situation to be in when you think that your bedroom should be the place where you are most relaxed.
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 what’s most important in this situation is quickly stopping as much of your anxiety in the bedroom as possible, and the easiest area to solve this problem is with the worrying you do when you wake up in the morning. The solution? Get up imediately, as soon as you open your eyes.
This is a very simple idea, but it’s amazing how much anxiety this will remove from the start of your day. Getting up before your mind has a chance to remember all the things it could be anxious about will give you a better start to the day than you’ve had in a long time.
Finding a solution for the occasions when you worry during the night after you’ve woken up is slightly harder, but there are still good methods. To begin with, always get up out of bed if you’re lying awake for more than five minutes. If you stay there in bed, in the dark and the silence, it’s only going to make your anxiety get worse.
Another good 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.
This whole appraoch has to beat lying in bed for hours on end, with nothing to do but worry. And when you eventually go back to bed, you’re far more likely to drift off to sleep without any problems.
The second sleeping mistake to eliminate to help cure your panic attacks is to allow no more constantly-changing schedules.
By sticking to the same routines and times, you’re sleeping will improve, whatever the cause of your sleeping problems.
And yes, by doing nothing more than going to bed and getting up at the same times, every single day, your internal clock will go back to normal and your sleeping cannot fail to get better. You’ll also correct any problems with things like irregular hormone release, which can be affected by poor sleep habits.
I bet you know that feeling that you’re totally burnt out, right? Well, that is sometimes a result of your adrenal glands being out of whack. One of the few ways to correct a problem like this is to get some good sleeping habits sorted out.
So do your best to go to bed each night at the same time, and get up each morning at the same time too. When you start out doing this, you may go through a couple of tough days while you get back into the correct routine, but it will be worth it. And also beware of sleeping in late on weekends, or days when you don’t have to be up early. All your hard work can be undone with a couple of late lie-ins!
The third method to get improved sleep is to avoid all stimulants before you go to bed.
In my own case, a lot of the problems I had with my sleep were due to what I was exposing myself to in the time leading up to bedtime. I admit that I often watched fast-paced TV, listened to loud music, and played action-packed video games right up until I turned my lights off. Clearly this is a terrible idea.
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 stick to before bed, where you try to slow things down.
Go out of your way to slow everything down for the last 60 minutes before heading off to bed. If you have a favourite bedtime drink, this is the time for it. If it’s hot outside, maybe drink it in the fresh air. If it’s cold outside, curl up and drink it inside. But the bottom line is, relax.
These types of suggestions might seem basic, but do you ever genuinely give yourself time in this way? Even if you do, you probably don’t do it often enough.
If you’re someone who likes 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.