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The Department of Veterans Affairs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia is an excellent FREE app that will significantly reduce your insomnia if you choose to follow is provided tools. This app will help you track your daily activities and develop a new sleep pattern that will enable you to get a good night’s rest. It will rewire your brain for a healthy night’s rest!
So many find suffer from insomnia, up all night trying to fall asleep. Either due to pain or, many times, our mind wandering and thinking about what we have to do the next day, worried about work, family, or tomorrow’s critical events. I gotta do this, need to do that; I’m worried about this, I must not forget to do this tomorrow, I need, gotta, what if; complete madness, whey won’t my brain stop!!! When we are sleeping, the sympathetic nervous system – fight or flight – should be turned off; the parasympathetic nervous system – rest and the digest – should be running, helping the body recuperate. With insomnia, the sympathetic nervous is on overdrive, continuously running. Your body is hypersensitive to any slight sensory alert from your five senses that will activate it. The goal is to rest and digest and put your sympathetic nervous system back in its kennel for the night!
Over time your body becomes accustomed to always being in the fight for flight mode at night, which results in long-term insomnia. When this occurs at night, various chemicals within your body that should be replenished during sleep are being drained and are not in stock in the morning. These are key components needed to provide the daily needed energy.
To get a good night’s sleep, you must re-train your brain. CBT-I will help you do this. You must teach your brain and development new sleep habits. Habits of preparing your body for sleep, going to sleep at the same time every night and waking up at the same time every morning, and reducing variables in your daily routine influencing poor sleep. The free CBT-I mobile app will guide you through doing this.
The CBT – I Will reset your brain to influence a healthy sleep schedule, if you choose to. It enables you to schedule a dedicated time and reminds you when you should begin to unwind and prepare for sleep. Your preparation for sleep should begin an hour before your scheduled bedtime. This should consist of turning the lights down, lowering sounds, stay away from screens. These are just a few of the many tips found in this mobile app.
Check out the video below for more details and how to prepare your room and body for a good night’s rest.
I highly recommend CBT-I. It also has the option for journal entries. Record your days activities, nutrition and stress levels. This will enable you to determine specific activities that may be triggering a poor nights rest. It also has plenty of information for you to understand your sleep; you can learn about the impacts of sleep through its Sleep 101 feature. It also has various relaxation techniques to help you fall back to sleep when you wake up or help you initially fall to sleep.
Download and implement this into your daily routine now.
