✅  Decide what you are going to do. Yep, actually list it. You want to be specific and not leave it up to the whim of the moment. The tendency is to not do anything then. Choose at least one activity and not more than three, for now. Keep it simple. You can always add to it.

➡️  Ideas: Reading, journaling, bath, gentle yoga, meditation, prayer.

Gentle stretching with breathing is a great way to unwind and get the body ready for bed.

Here is an entire playlist of yoga videos I made for you in a variety of lengths of time for you to enjoy: Yoga for Bedtime.

Or choose one or more of the the poses in the graphic.

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If you haven’t embraced Sleep Essence and Immupro yet, you are in for a TREAT!

Both contain melatonin for a deeper sleep. Sleep Essence also contains nervous system supporting oils such as Lavender, Valerian & Vetiver.

Immupro contains immune supporting goodies such as antioxidants, zinc, selenium and mushrooms.

I like to keep both on the shelf for when I need it. I use Sleep Essence when life has me up thinking and Immupro when my immune system could use a little love. (I travel with Immupro. I never sleep well those first couple of nights and travel puts the immune system at a disadvantage.)

Let’s talk Essential Oils:

• Young Living Lavender Essential Oil: Probably the most famous for calming oils. This one is perfect to diffuse, rub on feet, spray on pillow, whatever!
• Young Living Cedarwood Essential Oil: Amazing oil for that overactive brain. If you have a hard time falling asleep because of all the thoughts or those thoughts keep you up in the middle of the night, Cedarwood might be a solution for you. Take a drop and rub it on your neck right at the base of the brain.
• Young Living Valor Essential Oil: For when you have the “crazies”, as I lovingly call them. You know, those moments when all you can think of are the 12 things you “need to do, should have done, wish you had 26 hours to the day”. Valor on your feet will draw all the ways you are torn and bring them down into your body. Amazing for sleep!
• Young Living Vetiver Essential Oil: Earth. In a bottle. Grounding, grounding, grounding.
• Young Living Valerian Essential Oil: Not gonna lie, this one is stinky. No way around it. But so potent for loving your nervous system. Sleep will be amazing! Rub on feet and put on your socks — then you don’t have to smell it.

As for essential oils, the trick to using essential oils and sleep is to give them a chance to work. It can take more than just a few tries to get things going. Vetiver, for example, needs to be used for a couple of weeks to build up in the system to really help.

Choose an action…

If you have been following me for awhile, you know I am ALL ABOUT doing something. I want to inspire real change, not just “that’s a great idea” but nothing happens.

All I want you to do is choose ONE action from this list. One. Comment below what that one thing is for an even great chance of following through.

And then commit to doing it for at least 3 days. Just 3.

You can totally do that!

Ready? Join me next Monday for Topic #2 for this series!