Struggling To Sleep Due To Stress? Doc Shares Tips To Calm Your Mind Before Bed

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January 22, 2025, 9:42 AM

• •Schedule a 'worry time' to write down your racing thoughts during the day.
• •Adopt a breathing technique like the 4-7-8 method to lower your heart rate and relax your nervous system.
• •Set a bedtime winds down alarm to signal your brain that it's time to wind down.

Job stress, relationship anxieties, financial worries, and looming deadlines, all these worrying thoughts can leave your mind racing, making it difficult to get a restful night's sleep. Want to know how to calm your mind? Well, deal with these thoughts head-on, so that they don't follow you to bed. According to a board certified physician and certified sleep specialist, Dr. Angela Holiday Bell, the secret to calming your mind before sleep is not avoiding these thoughts, but addressing them during a scheduled "worry time".

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