One of the best ways to cure panic attacks is to improve the quality of your sleep, and here are 3 methods for doing just that.
***Method #1. No More Negative Thinking In The Bedroom***
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!
This problem probably affects you at night when you’re lying awake trying to sleep, during the night when you wake up, and in the morning when you’re awake but not up yet.
So the key here is to eliminate as much of this “worry in bed” time as possible. The easiest one to solve is the worry in the morning, when you’re awake but you haven’t got up yet. The simple solution here is to get up the moment you wake up!
This may sound like a very simplistic solution 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 beginning to your day.
As for the times when you wake up during the night and start to worry/panic well, this one’s slightly trickier. But there are things you can do! First of all, if you’re awake longer than a few minutes and you feel your anxiety increasing, get up out of bed. Being in bed in the silence will just make any anxiety you feel seem even worse.
Have a warm shower or wash your face with warm water, potter around for 10 minutes doing something that doesn’t need much focus (a bit of tidying, listening to some soft music, skim-reading a magazine etc.), and then go back to bed. The key here is to recreate a “natural” going-to-bed routine.
By getting up when you’re awake, and going back to bed in this way after you’ve been doing something for a while, it’s much more like you’re going to bed for the first time. This is far more natural for your body, and you’re going to be able to get back to sleep much quicker than if you’d just remained in bed the entire time.
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.
Your own inner clock will quickly reset itself to the natural and healthy default if you just start going to bed and getting up at the same 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 lots of 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 usually 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!
The third method to get improved sleep is to avoid all stimulants before you go to bed.
A lot of the problems that you currently have with your sleep could be to do with what you do right before you go to bed. Fast-paced TV, loud music, heavy reading, and playing video games are all very 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 adhere 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.
I know that what I’m saying here sounds like it’s too simple to work, but I can assure that this does work. And can you genuinely say that you give yourself quality time like this?
If you’re somebody 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 build your own slow-down hour before bed, and see the wonders it can work on your sleep, and your panic attacks.
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