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Say Goodbye to 3 A.M. Wake-Ups: My Simple Stress-Relief Sleep Hack
Discover the easy night-time routine that helped me sleep through the night — even on my most stressful days.
At first, I thought it was completely natural and that it was just a coincidence that when you are stressed or your thoughts turn to a certain idea, it is very likely that you will wake up at 3 a.m. or, more often than not, between 3 and 4 a.m. The problem is that most of the time you can’t fall back asleep, and the next day you have to go to bed very early, which puts you in a very dangerous cycle where you go to bed early because you’re tired and wake up at 3 a.m. because you’ve had enough sleep.
In this article, I will tell you how I managed to stop waking up at 3 in the morning and get back to my normal sleep cycle between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., even on extremely stressful days.
First of all, if you want to stop waking up between 3 and 4 in the morning, even if you are stressed, the best remedy is exercise, and now that summer is here, I feel much more comfortable going out into nature to walk briskly or choose other activities rather than going to the gym. The idea is, however, that you should not do this less than 3–4 hours before bedtime. Considering that my job ends at 4 p.m. and I get home around…
