Natural Insomnia Remedies - 7 Tips to Cure Insomnia Without Drugs

Do you toss and turn at night? Do you lie awake in bed for hours at night hoping you'll drift off to slumberland automatically, but it doesn't work? Can't seem to fall asleep no matter what you do?

These are signs of insomnia.

OK, so you manage to sack out but you tend to wake up frequently during the night with difficulty falling back to sleep. And you feel tired, listless, irritable and sluggish the next day. That also signifies insomnia.

Not uncommon for most of us to experience hateful sleepless nights now and then. But if you're having trouble falling asleep for 3 or more nights in a week consistently, you're in for a serious sleeping disorder.

So how to deal with insomnia? Follow these 7 tips and you should be able to improve your sleep quality as soon as tonight.

1. Identify Root Cause

What makes you lose your sleep? Is it stress, back pain, tennis elbow, irritable bowel syndrome, heartburn or other issues?

Now, if any or combination of those problems triggers your insomnia, what you should do is find remedies for them. Sometimes, they're too painful or strong for you to get into sleep.

But I encourage you to start with natural means to cure whatever illnesses or issues that result in your sleep disorder. Search online for a natural remedy and you should find one easily within your reach.

I don't recommend you to see doctors because many doctors can't even cure themselves except prescribing sleeping pills for their own sleepless condition. You'll suffer adverse effects and get worse for popping pills.

2. Avoid Caffeinated Drinks

Stop drinking coffee, tea, soft drinks or any other caffeinated drinks after 5 P.M. Caffeinated drink can perk you up and disrupt your sleep at night if its effect has not worn off by the time you turn in.

3. Eat Right

You can't sleep well with a full or empty stomach. So, when you feel hungry before bedtime, by all means, pick up some light and healthy snacks like wholegrain crackers or wholegrain bread to help you sleep soundly.

I suggest that you always take the snacks 1 hour before sleep. That way, your stomach won't rumble right before bedtime.

But please, don't take supper. Supper is too heavy for your stomach to function at night. And this can disturb your sleep quality and make you feel worse the following morning even though you manage to get some sleep the night before.

4. No Eating or Working in Bedroom

Reserve your bedroom for sleep and sex only. No other activities allowed!

5. Put Your Clock Away

Imagine you keep hearing the clock ticking by your bed side. You can't help but to turn around to check what time it is and how much time is left for you to sleep before you need to wake up for work.

This could stress you out and make your heart pound faster, which in turn causes you to go sleepless totally. It could even trigger panic attack.

Either you put your mechanical clock far away from your bed so you won't hear the ticking sound in the quiet night or just change to a digital clock instead.

6. Exercise

Regular exercise can help relieve your tension and help you sleep better at night.

No time for that? Stop giving excuses. Tons of free home workouts posted on YouTube that you can go search for and then do it yourself at home. Free of charge and no traveling down to the gym.

Alternatively, you can use just your bodyweight to do exercises at home like push-up, prisoner squat, step-up, one-leg squat, lying hip extension, ab curl, and bicycle crunch etc.

But remember, no exercise 3 hours before your bedtime or you'll find hard to sleep.

7. Train Your Brain

Make it a habit to sleep at a fixed timing, say, 11 P.M. every night. Do it for 8 days continually and your body will register this as a routine.

If you apply the 6 tips above, you shouldn't have any problem training your brain to sleep at the same timing every night. Not only that, you'll find yourself waking up in the morning at a specific hour too.