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Improving My Sleep Habits

Now day we have really distracted live let it be we're in front of a computer all day or just simply watch some TV before bed or be on our mobile phone before bed all of this thing might relate to you, and you might have heard that to be able to sleep good a night you need to stop using the phone before bed or not to drink coffee at night. So that way we keep our brains' photoreceptor as they should be.

I have many problems but sleep seen to be a problem to most of us in today society or generation due to the fact that we are mostly on our phone all day or in the computer. So having a good night of sleep with a full 8 hours might be optimal, but in my current situation I could only get about 5 hours max of sleep per night.

The US Military Sleep Technique

  • TLDR; Yes it works, I was surprise that as many podcast as I listen to or papers/ books read online I never came around this quick technique to help foe like me that might be suffering from Insomnia or a good deal of other stuff that could keep us from going to sleep at night.

  • There are a few short steps that must be taken for this to work properly as you could look this them up the US military sleeping technique a find many articles about I just learned or heard someone talk about it on one of the twitter space I was in the last couple of days I took it down a hard mental note about it and look it up, gave it a try, and it worked for me, so I repeated next day and I worked again, and again, wow this is life changing since due to my current situation I could only go to sleep after 11:30-12:30 most of the day, This Could be why I felt like a night owl all this time.

Relaxation, Breathing & Clearing You'r Mind

  • The way to begin this Technique as Describe online is to relax your body from head to toe, tighten muscle up and let them loose to a relaxed state. I do this backward somehow, I start from my toe and work my way to my head in the pillow.

  • Controlling the breath or breathing, it's important to take big breaths and exhale slowly. Feel how the air enter and leave your nostrils.

  • Clean your mind of unwanted though Bet way is to repeat the word "nothing" or like they said "Do not think" either one should work.

  • Reference Article

This Shall be taken as a Quick introduction to the Sleeping technique, Please DYOR.

  • NOTE: This is one of 30 blogs that I would be attempting to write over the next 30 days to improve my writing skills.

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