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Create a sleep-friendly space
What could be more essential to wellbeing than sleep? In the next 24 hours, make your bedroom more sleep-friendly by identifying – and eliminating – anything that interferes with a good night’s rest.
What could be more essential to wellbeing than sleep? In the next 24 hours, make your bedroom more sleep-friendly by identifying – and eliminating – anything that interferes with a good night’s rest.
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My bedroom walls were a purple for the past 5 years, & the boxspring & mattress were 9 years old. So, I painted the bedroom walls a soft beige, & 3 days ago bought a Spring-Air boxspring & mattress. What a difference it made sleeping for my husband & I. We wake up very refreshed. I don’t have any clutter, I’m very organized.
I got too much going on in my room!!! I got to just clear up everything around my bed!!
Wow. Talk about clutter in my room… cleaning it up sure did make it feel more spacey.. and less cramped, which made me relax :)
I started turning the tv off before I fall asleep instead of using the timer.
I turned down the heat and that made it easier to sleep
I have bought a 4’ inch mattress topper with memory foam, new sheets with pillow cases, and took the sheet that I had covering my window down to let lite shine in my room.
I took the tv and vcr out of the bedroom and put in a stereo with calming music for sleeping.Also I mived the sound machine that plays natural sounds next to the bed. May not be much, but it creates a more relaxed environment
I have given myself permission to sleep on the floor at a moment’s notice. Its sounds small but it is so empowering for me to grab a pillow and cover, crack my window just a little and sleep on my floor and not have to answer to anyone about why I love the moment so much. I feel absolutely wonderful curled up on my carpet just letting myself have this one thing!
don’t eat right before you go to bed and take a bath or showerwith lavender vinilla bath wash before bed and have either chamimile tea or sleepy time
don’t eat right before you go to bed and take a bath or shower with lavender vinilla bath wash before bed and have either chamimile tea or sleepy time
I have done spring cleaning in my bedroom and made it light and airy with new frilly window treatments:)
I have a room that’s easily made quite dark (other than letting the moonlight through the blinds—makes for some lovely ambient light ;) and I listen to soft, instrumental music to help me sleep. I have a hard time falling asleep when it’s totally silent—seems like any little noise that does happen seems all the louder, haha! I also sometimes use a sprits of a lavender & chamomile aromatherapy spray on my pillow (which is a Sobakawa one—with the buckwheat husks—best sleep investment I’ve ever made) which has a soothing effect that relaxes the senses to sleepyville ;)
I turn the AC cooler at night during the summer, and leave the window cracked in winter to create a nice cool room.
i have gotten rid of my stereo and any other musical devices. i do live in the “country” so it is nice and quite
I’ve been working on this for quite some time now. A book by Karen Kingston called “Clearing Your Clutter with Feng Shui” has been a tremendous inspiration. In about one more month I expect to have a bedroom that feel very calm, peaceful and very “Zen-like”. Stay tuned for more updates.
I’ve been working on this for almost 2 years…I’ve long since removed anything from my bedroom that doesn’t have to do with sleep or sex. I also moved my bedroom into a much smaller room on my second floor that most people would use as an office specifically so that I had a small room devoted to the 2 purposes. I have a 2 year old dog and she likes to sleep on the bed at the foot during the cold weather and sleeps on the floor in the same place during the warmer months, I also have a cat who likes to meander in at all hours and join me or the dog. Both critters make me wake up several times during the night but I can’t force myself to banish either.
I always keep my window open, even if its just cracked. I think the fresh air helps me sleep better and I also like it to be dark, NO lights!!!
I have been improving my sleep experience by dimming the lights where ever I am in the house or (don’t laugh it works!) wearing sun glasses an hour or two before bedtime – prepares you brain to accept sleep. NO TV 1 hour before bedtime or TV in the bedroom. Clean air flow is important, also you just feel and breathe so much better surrounded by clean fresh linens, washed without perfume or dyes or fabric softner.
Well, the problem for me was both electronics and clutter. I also have quite bright walls! NEON GREEN. So, by using a duller, turning out the electronics and get rid of 5 bags of gabage, I know have a much cleaner a healthier living space. Some of my personal tips would be to lave your window open sometimes when it’s warm.
My bed room seems to be very cluttered so I cleaned up and got all of the clutter away from the bed. It seems to be working better than I thought.