Sleeping aids

[Schlong&Stable]

I used to struggle to sleep and stay asleep for years. Now I have a hot bath an hour or so before bed, then meditate for 15 minutes before I fall asleep. Really sends me off and stops my mind wandering about stupid things I used to worry about.

Something tells me you're in the Green Party...

 

[Raymond Lin]

I used to struggle to sleep and stay asleep for years. Now I have a hot bath an hour or so before bed, then meditate for 15 minutes before I fall asleep. Really sends me off and stops my mind wandering about stupid things I used to worry about.

Is that mean your routine to go to sleep is over an hour long?

What do you do when you are away from your home enviroment?

 

[lakitu]

Is that mean your routine to go to sleep is over an hour long?

What do you do when you are away from your home enviroment?

I'm rarely away from home!

I work from home, and also have a gym in my house to wind down when it's winter. It gives me a lot of extra hours a week not having to commute and I can wake up when I like if I've slept bad. No kids and recently split up with my long term GF. Strangely I'm sleeping better than ever as I have the bed all to myself

 

[dirtychinchilla]

I always found exercise really helped me. I don't mean go for a run just before you go to bed, but increasing my general activity level meant that my body was actually ready to sleep.

 

[iaind]

Melatonin. You state you do not want medication, but it us purely a synthesized copy of your natural sleep hormone.

Seconded - very effective. Not the simplest to get hold of in the UK as it was banned for a while due to how it was made (think it was farmed from some sort of animal gland, but it's synthetic now). I bought a pack from a drug store in the US as a recommendation for helping jetlag and its marvelous stuff - both for overcoming an inability to get to sleep and for jetlag.