8 Ways to Beat Insomnia by Therese Borchard l How to deal with Insomnia l Ways to stop being an insomniac l how to sleep better l Sleep and Health l Ways to Sleep More

Commit to a Schedule

The hardest thing to do for a person who has not slept is to resist nodding off during the day, to take a nap of any sort to help him/her get through the day. However, as Colleen Carney and Rachel Manber write in “Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep,” this reduces your sleep drive, which is the “amount of pressure to go to sleep your body produces at any given point during a twenty-four hour period.” It’s based on how much time you spend awake and active in a twenty-four hour period.

Your body will start sending messages that it’s time to go to sleep when there is a high sleep drive. So you are best to avoid the nap if you can and practice good sleep hygiene by going to bed at the same time every night, training your mind to go to sleep at that time.