Category: Sleep Obstacles

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  Have you ever felt too afraid to sleep? Or maybe too anxious or worried to sleep? It’s not a good feeling. So on this scariest of days, it might be a good time to talk about what to do when you’re feeling scared or troubled or agitated and you just can’t fall asleep. One of the most frustrating obstacles to sleep you may encounter is the vicious circle of being too anxious to sleep, so you lose sleep, which makes you less able to deal with or even solve what’s making you anxious in the first place. And around …

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When you were a kid, did your parents ever tell you to “put that book/magazine/video game away and turn off the light?” Do you now hear yourself telling your own kids – or partner – to “put that phone down and go to sleep?” Maybe you’ve been meaning to say it to yourself. I know I have! It’s well-known, at this point in the 21st century, that the blue light emitted by devices like your phone, tablet or even your TV are not best friends with your circadian rhythm. They play games with each other. Sometimes they bicker: 11:30 pm …

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I’ve been thinking a lot about sleeping in hot weather lately. Actually, I’ve been thinking about hot weather in general lately. You see, it’s the last day of May here in Arizona. I feel like that might be all I need to say about that, but just in case you’re not familiar with our desert temperatures, spring can be hot, leading to summer, which is HOT. Today – as I type this – I have three very nice HVAC technicians replacing my 25-year-old air conditioner with a brand new, high efficiency system. You know what I’m most excited about? Being …

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You probably already suspect it. Maybe you know it without a doubt. Technology could be keeping you from sleeping well. We hear this all the time in the media. We know it’s not in our best interest to stream shows, surf the internet, check email, or scroll through social media before bed. Or worse yet, while lying in bed, expecting to roll over and fall right asleep. To put it like a sleep scientist would, it is not good sleep hygiene. It’s true. If you do those things, you may be hindering your ability to easily fall asleep and get …

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When your body is tense, it’s really hard to fall asleep. Have you ever been lying in bed – very much not falling asleep – when you realize all your muscles in every part of your body are tensed up? When you realize how rigid you are, you might consciously start commanding each part of your body to let go. Suddenly you realize how tense you were when you feel your body start to sink into your bed instead of lying stiffly atop your mattress. If you’re like me, you might then go through that cycle of realizing you’re tense, …

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Has this ever happened to you? You’re so exhausted by the end of the day, you can barely keep your eyes open. All you can think about is falling face-first into your soft bed. You’re on your way there and then you get a shock that’s so horrifying you go into full blown fight-or-flight mode. You fear for your own safety and that of your loved ones. Your heart pounds, your legs go weak, your hands tremble. Sleep is the absolute last thing on your mind now, and with the adrenaline coursing through your body, it’ll be quite awhile before …

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Sometimes you just can’t sleep. Genuinely, honest to goodness, flat out cannot sleep. All the hints, tips, tricks and special techniques are useless in these moments. It’s simply no good. You’ve stopped eating at 7:00 pm, turned the TV and devices off early, adjusted the thermostat a degree or two cooler, taken a relaxing bath or shower, sprayed lavender scent on your pillows, started a soothing nature audio on your sound machine, put on your comfy cotton jammies and your sleeping mask and climbed into bed… …and still you lie there awake for unending minutes, hours, days, weeks, years. Okay, …

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I remember growing up my mom telling me to be careful with my back. Of course, I thought I was invincible. I was young, strong, flexible, and nothing hurt. I could lie on the floor on my stomach for hours, reading, talking on the phone, or watching TV. No problem, no pain. I could fall asleep in any position and wake up feeling fine. Ah, youth. Mom sometimes suffered from back pain, and when she saw me lifting something heavy or heaving stuff around as kids will do…at least, I did…she worried I would hurt myself right then, or that …

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We hear a lot about all the different things competing for our time when we “should” be sleeping. Heck, we spend a fair amount of time talking about it here at Sleep Satisfaction. One of the main culprits for most of us is screen time. Everything from social media to surfing the web to watching videos, programs, movies – or whatever – on our various screens. Since screen time seems to be one of sleep’s greatest competitors, perhaps it shouldn’t be much of a surprise, then, to hear that Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, believes that sleep is his company’s greatest …

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