Treatments for Insomnia

Getting angry and frustrated with your insomnia will not help it, rather it will only seek to make it worse. Therefore, to begin a treatment for insomnia, your mind must be positive in wanting to beat it, not negatively worrying when your next sleep will occur. This section will try and help you with your ‘sleep hygiene’ and it is often recommended that you try natural easy steps before resorting to medication. Medication can help you sleep short-term, but it does not remove the stress and worry some of us can adopt with regards to sleep. It is vital you restore mental harmony with any form of treatment of insomnia.

Lifestyle Changes

It is important that you only associate your bedroom with sleep. Removing electrical items may be essential to obtaining a good night’s sleep as watching TV in bed does not relax someone with a sleep disorder, rather it often does not allow the mind to focus on anything else, like reading a book would. When watching TV your mind can still resort back to the fact that you will need to sleep soon. It is therefore recommended that you only go to bed for sleep.


Keeping the room only as a place to sleep does mean that if you awaken during the night and feel that you are unable to fall back to sleep easily, they you should remove yourself from the ‘sleep room’. Going into another room, that should not be too brightly lit; you could try a quiet activity, such as reading until you feel tired again. Thus, when you return into your bedroom, you will once again be tired and hopefully ready to sleep, associating the room only with going to sleep.

There are also a lot of relaxation exercises and breathing exercises that are recommended for people with insomnia and can be find in common exercise programmes such as Yoga or Tai Chi. Learning to control your breathing and to enter into relaxation modes could be very beneficial in allowing you to enter into a harmonic, comfortable state in which you may find it easier to sleep. For further information read Natural Aids to Help you Sleep.


« Living & Coping with Insomnia Medications for Insomnia »