Super Woman: Catching the Sleep Fairy

The super busy super woman has discovered ways of tackling all the obstacles in her life. But after going through a day of excelling at her field and taking care of her family, when she prepares to drift into the peaceful world of sleep and dreams, she finds herself helpless against the unavailability of the same. A conqueror by day loses to insomnia at night. However, there are many ways to build your arsenal against this invisible yet most desired enemy so that your body and its wellbeing is not compromised due to lack of rest.

Let’s start with the simple act of inhaling through your left nostril while lying on your left side. This page from yoga can fasten the process of catching your nap. You can also try to contract and relax your muscles one by one starting from toe till your neck. By the end of this process, you should be ready to say goodbye to your consciousness. Another interesting yet funny way of tricking catnap to come to you is to make the super woman like effort to stay awake. Rejection of brain to take up negative thoughts can force your body to fall asleep.

As soon as your head hits the pillow, rather than worrying whether you will get enough snooze tonight, you should start rethinking the day you had but in the opposite order of chronology. This has proven to be very helpful to many women. When we are actually asleep, we tend to roll our eye balls with closed eyes. Using super woman like smartness, you can try to do the same even when you are awake so that your body releases melatonin which is considered the hormone assisting your sleep. Humming to yourself can also help in such cases.

We all know that every woman has a happy place where she finds herself most gratified mentally. It can be a abode, company of a person, feeling or view that can create the ambience of utmost peace and happiness. After you lie down, you can use your super woman like imagination and visualize yourself in your happy place and leave behind the reality. This may lead to slowly drifting into forty winks. Also, putting pressure on certain points of your body can also prove to be beneficial in this regard. One such point is the intersection of your nose and eyes. Another one is the point between the big toe and the next toe of your feet.

Most of the time our super woman like desire to stay ahead of our schedule makes us worry so much that it eats up our doze time. Just make a physical list of every pending job for the next day and treat it like a closed and distant closet so that you don’t have to worry about forgetting anything after you wake up from a blissful night of siesta.