Insomnia go away! Sleep training for adults.

As a professional escort your schedule is most of the time fully booked, with dates, appointments to have your nails/makeup/hair done, shopping sprees to renew your wardrobe to suite your partners taste, and other chores related to your personal life.

During this hectic lifestyle, a little monster called insomnia starts to appear in our lives. If you wander why this happens, the answer is simple: because we are constantly charged up with worries and thoughts, we are constantly on the run, we feel overwhelmed by plans and stress, we forget to live in the present and we constantly make plans for the future, and the list can go on.

Our lifestyle is inviting insomnia into our lives, and we don’t have time for it! When you get some time to sleep, you want to do just that, not count sheep or make grocery lists or get worried about something you said or did that might have upset a client.

Before trying a specific sleep-training method there are some things that must enter your daily routine, before going to bed.

First of all open the window to clear the air and make your room cool, than take a warm shower, do a 15 minute yoga routine that can help you stretch your muscles and relax, place your phone far away from your hands reach, close the drapes and light an aromatherapy candle with lavender, sage or chamomile oil.

Time is precious and we want to use it well, so here are a couple of methods that can train us to fall asleep faster:

1.      Fall asleep the military way

When applied correctly, this sleep training method can be so efficient that can make you fall asleep in just 10 seconds. All you have to do is follow a couple of steps to relax your muscles. Start by laying down on the bed with your hands dropped on the side of your body.

Relax your face and the muscles inside your mouth – relax your eyes, your eyebrows, your lips, your tongue, visualize every part of your body as you work on relaxing it. The next step is to drop your shoulders to release the tension, meanwhile inhale and exhale regularly. Continue to visualize every part of your body, while you try to relax it – relax your chest, your legs, your fingers, your thighs, your calves.

After you’re done relaxing every part of your body, end the exercise by clearing your mind and just imagine a perfectly relaxing scene. Try to envision it as detailed as possible, the colors, the smells, the sounds, the textures, everything. During this stage you should fall asleep. After a couple of days of repeating this sleep exercise, you’ll be able to fall asleep faster and faster.

2.      The breathing method of sleep training

The breathing method that helps you fall asleep faster is based on a 4-7-8 seconds breathing plan: inhale for 4 seconds, hold your breath for 7 seconds and exhale for 8 seconds.

Here’s how it goes:

First of all, make sure the devices around you are turned off, the light is dimmed, the sheets are perfectly straightened on the bed and you are wearing very comfortable pajamas.

Lay down on your bed with your hands laying down next to your body. Part your lips and start breathing through your mouth, making a sound while you exhale, just like the wind does when it goes though the leaves.

Inhale through your nose while counting to 4 in your head – hold your breath while you count to 7 – exhale through your mouth while you count to 8. Repeat this for 4 times, relax your body and focus your mind only on breathing. This should help you calm down you body, creating the perfect environment for rest.

3.      Stay awake – the paradoxical intention

When you suffer from insomnia, getting to bed and not being able to sleep may cause anxiety and agitation, that’s why researchers are suggesting a different approach, called paradoxical intention. This means telling your body to do exactly the opposite of what your initial intentions are.

Basically, when you go to bed and lay down to sleep, tell yourself you need to stay awake. In the meantime, try to imagine, in thorough details, an image that inspires tranquility and a feeling of total relaxation – it may be an image of a beach in the Maldives, the view from a mountain top, the image of you holding a cocktail while relaxing in your ideal nook, whatever screams relaxation and happiness to you.

The secret is to engage all your senses – image the smells, the textures of the things represented in your mental image, the sounds and so on, so that you prevents yourself from re-engaging with different thought that can cause anxiety and alertness. During this exercise you should find yourself falling asleep.

Try these 3 simple sleep techniques and let us know if they did the trick for you. Was insomnia chased away, leaving you with a good night sleep and feeling fully rested? What other tricks are you trying in order to fall asleep faster? Let us know in the comment section below.