How to Get a Good Night's Sleep

• Your nutrition is important for how you sleep. If you practise eating healthy meals and getting all the right nutrients you need, your body would be able to perform proper metabolism. You wouldn't have to worry about nutritional deficiencies and metabolic  dysregulation, both of which can hinder your sleeping process.

• Keep a consistent sleep schedule: This way your body naturally eases into it, and your weekends shouldn't be an exception as that could disrupt the sleep routine.

• Find ways to relax before bed. Take an hour or two where you stop all your work and wind down.

• Make your bedroom sleep-optimised. If your bedroom feels like a safe haven, there are increased chances you are going to sleep better. So keep your bedroom comfortable, cool, dark, quiet, stress, and distraction-free.

• Have a physically and mentally active day. If you move and think around a lot during the day, you will be exhausted when night comes, and that would make transitioning towards the sleep realm a much easier process.

• You should take out any constant source of worry in your life so you should sleep better.

• Strengthen your circadian signal. The circadian signal is the body's internal clock over  24 hours, kind of cues your body into when to sleep and when to wake. It is primarily controlled by light and darkness. So if you get your body to associate darkness with sleep and bright light with waking up times, that would greatly help in sleeping better.

• Your bedroom should be strictly for sleeping, and maybe sex, but your focus should be to associate your bedroom with sleeping and make sure it's optimised for better sleep. Invest in quality silk bedding, a silk pillow case,  eye masks, comfy nightwear, light blockers, curtains, and noise cancelers.

Mental Relaxation Ideas:

• Pen down all of your feelings, ideas, content ideas, and everything that has been brought up on the forefront of your mind. When that's done, you'll be able to let go and finally hold the hands of sleep and let it guide you.
  
  
• Learn to put your phone on airplane mode. It would help psychologically disengage you from the rest of the world and leave you in the world of your own.
  
  
• Music is destressing, and that's what you need to get your body in a relaxed state. However, the kind of music that would induce sleep is one that is calming and low-toned.
  
  
• Just be a little bored: Allow yourself to be by yourself before bed.
  
  
• Read or listen to that book you have been holding out on. Reading books can be a great way to separate yourself from thoughts about your problems and let you focus on something else.
  
  
• If you are into podcasts, it is a great way to calm a restless mind, and there are tons of options out there to meet your preferences.