We’ve all been struggling with a lot through the last two years, but the main thing that’s been quite a hassle for me is the issue of sleep. In fact, these last two years have been really hard on my sleep due to dreams centred around the fear of one of my loved ones getting sick or the stress of lockdown. This has also really impacted my mental health.
But I’m not here to be a downer—I’m here to present three great tips to help you get at the very least a decent sleep during this time of COVID.
3. Herbal tea
Really, I’m talking Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime tea—this famous tea has helped people’s sleep patterns for 50 years now. I know this because when I was growing up, I would have a lot of nightmares (mainly because I was watching monster movies behind my parents’ backs, but that’s beside the point). Whenever I had a nightmare or was stressed out by something at school, my mother always made me some Sleepytime Kids and it helped a lot.
The regular Sleepytime version was a big help for me when it came to navigating my poor sleep patterns through this terrible pandemic. So, I can say through experience that this tea is super effective at helping people get a good night’s sleep.
2. Meditation music
Another tool that I’ve been using lately to improve my sleep is meditation music. The first time I popped in a CD containing this type of music, I didn’t believe that the combo of the sounds of a soft guitar and of all the beautiful sights of nature like raindrops and waterfalls could make the human consciousness drift off to dreamland so fast, but when I heard the music on my old CD player, I was out like a light by the time the first track was done playing.
1. Imagine positive thoughts
I know that this one is really hard for all of us to do given all of the adversity that we have faced over the last two years but how and what we think really does influence our sleep and our dreams.
For example, say the last thing I think about before I go to bed tonight is a positive outlook of what the world will be after COVID-19. If I did this, I just might dream of a world where we all agree to put aside our differences and work together to solve the biggest issues that we are facing right now. We come up with ways to adapt to climate change that don’t disrupt our livelihoods and do improve the quality of life for not just our species but for every species that inhabits the lovely blue planet that we call Earth.
But if I go to bed thinking only about how gloomy everything is right now, it’s far more likely that I will only wind up with nightmares about us being stuck in this pandemic forever and how we all might be forced to leave the island some day due to climate change. So if you want a better sleep, try thinking positively.
I hope these tips help you get some better sleep. And hang in there—we will get through these sleepless nights.