Are your bedtime routines promoting restful sleep or keeping you awake?
1. Sleep-inducing: Reading a book
Reading a fictional book before bed is one of the best ways to unwind. It transports you away from daily stresses, helping worries fade and sleep come naturally.
2. Calming: Sex
Intimacy in the bedroom releases endorphins, promoting relaxation and deeper sleep for most people.
3. At your own risk: Watching television
Even from a distance, TV screens emit blue light that disrupts your sleep cycle, making it harder to drift off despite feeling cozy under the covers.
4. Bad habit: Using your phone in bed
Scrolling, gaming, or messaging keeps your mind stimulated with notifications and alerts, delaying sleep well into the night.
5. Wide awake guarantee: Reading work emails
Checking emails, especially from work, reignites stress and emotions right when you need to relax for sleep.
