Designate the Bedroom for Sleep Only

If you would like to get better sleep you might want to think about how you use your bedroom. The best thing you can do is to designate your bedroom for sleep and sex only. While you may not be able to follow this completely because your closet and dresser that holds all your clothes are in your bedroom, you should try to stick to that as much as possible. This is a great way to set up your subconscious to realize that when you are in the bedroom, you should be sleeping.

Many people use their bedrooms as "catch all" rooms. They watch tv while lying in bed, go through all the mail while lying on the bed, balance their checkbooks, study for exams, surf the internet, all kinds of different things. If you have absolutely no other place to go besides your bedroom, leave the bed sacred. If you must do any of the above things, or anything besides sleep or sex, do it on the floor. When you sit on your bed and balance your checkbook, or study for an exam, or write out bills, your mind gets confused. Have you ever gotten in bed and tried to go to sleep and then your mind starts racing and thinking about a bunch of different things? Chances are, it's because you've previously trained it to do so by doing all of those activities while sitting on or laying in your bed.

If you keep the bed only for sleep and sex, your mind will begin to realize those are the only things it should be doing there. When you lay down to go to sleep, you will be able to relax and drift off to sleep.