Sleeping Schedule

I'm no doctor. so I suppose if we're really having trouble sleeping the Doctor could give us a prescription. But I don't care to take pills. Sleeping issues run in my family, but I sleep well almost all of the time. I think it's because I followed the stuff I'm going to write down for so long. But it does take time for the effects to be felt; 3 days, 3 months, even 3 years to take full effect. but if nothing is putting us to sleep yet, maybe these will give some life long sleeping habits.

Rule number one for me was to establish what my sleeping hours would be. Whatever we choose we need to stick with it, till it's established. I recommend 8 hours total with a combination of sleep and some from of meditation. 4 hours straight for sleep is a minimum...though I like 6 hours of sleep and two hours of meditation. The meditation can be done in one set of 2 hours or I like one hour as I awake and one hour before I sleep for most people; or 4 30 minute segments throughout the day is good too. Personally I now fall asleep too quickly to do the one before bedtime, so I do a morning set and then afternoon and/or evening set.

I now sleep from midnight to 6am; but I used to do 10pm to 4am; and 10:30 to 4:30. It depends on how you function best. If you're not into formal meditation, you can just lay in bed quiet and still...even if you do that for 8 hours without sleep, if you stick to the time schedule, you'll eventually go to sleep in there... just stick to the plan to build sleeping habits.