3 Ways To Cure Panic Attacks With High Quality Sle
Saturday, July 31st, 2010When 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 3 good ways to achieve that.
The first way to get better sleep is to stop all negative thoughts while you’re in bed.
More worry and anxiety happens when you’re lying awake in bed than at any other time of the day. That’s pretty incredible when you consider it’s the place where we should be most relaxed!
You’ll probably find that this problem is at its worst at 3 specific times: when you’re lying awake immediately after you go to bed, in the middle of the night after you’ve woken up, and possibly in the morning too, when you’ve woken up but you haven’t got out of bed yet.
So what’s most critical 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 may sound like a very simplistic idea}, but it really does work and will stop 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 occasions when you worry during the night after you’ve woken up is slightly harder, but there are still good options. 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 stronger.
Another good thing to do is to have a warm bath, or simply to splash your face with cool water. Or perhaps just wander around your home for a few minutes, 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 stop to help cure your panic attacks is to allow no more constantly-changing schedules.
If you’re suffering with a sleep problem for any reason, not just one that’s caused by anxiety and panic, then sticking to the same schedule every day is great advice.
Your personal inner clock will quickly 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 normalise things like hormone secretion, which often depends on your sleeping cycles.
Do you ever feel burnt out? In many cases, that will be because your adrenal glands are active at times when they shouldn’t be, and this is often caused by irregular sleeping cycles. If you can get your sleeping habits into a predictable routine, problems like this will often disappear all on their own.
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!
Right, now the 3rd and final way to get better sleep, and this one is all about stopping all stimulants in the lead up to bedtime.
A lot of the problems that you currently have with your sleep could be to do with what you do directly before you go to bed. Fast-paced TV, loud music, heavy reading, and playing video games are all really bad ideas in the last hour or two before you try to sleep.
So something you should try to do right now is to completely 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.
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 construct your own slow-down hour before bed, and see the wonders it can work on your sleep, and your panic attacks.