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These 3 practices and sleep meditation can help you get better sleep, even with pain:

3 Fantastic Ways To Actually Get Better Sleep With Chronic Pain

How many times a week do you ask yourself, "Why am I so friggin' tired?!"

Sleep is so crazy important for healing neuroplastic chronic pain. While you sleep is when the cells of your nervous system regenerate and your nervous system can do it's regulation magic!

Well, listen up, because I'm going to tell you how to get better sleep, even with pain.

So why does persisting pain cause you to feel so tired? I mean, beyond the obvious point that it takes a TON of energy just to be nice to people and get on with your day when you feel pain? (Good job on doing your best to be a nice human, by the way!)

There's so much happening with chronic pain... too much to explain in one little blog post. What I can tell you quickly though, is that pain is just one of your protective systems.

It tends to be the loudest, but there are likely quieter messages that your other protective systems send you too. Your protective systems are just what they sound... they try to get you to make a change and protect you before harm comes to you.

Like your endocrine system shutting down functions that are not necessary in an emergency, like messing with your sleep, digestion, cognitive capacity, libido....

... sound familiar? How tired do you feel just reading and realizing how hard your protective systems are working right now?!

These 3 practices can help you get better sleep, even with pain:

👉 Viewing sunlight early in the day during the shift from low to full light. Try to do this practice even if it’s through cloud cover and do it from outside, not through a window. Simply be outside and let the shift in light downstream hormones including cortisol and melatonin, and neurotransmitters like dopamine, all of which help your circadian rhythm.

👉 Eliminating all possible distractions. Keep the temperature at a comfortable 20c / 68f, put all screens and communication devices in a different room, use black-out curtains, and reduce noise as much as possible. You can even get ear plugs made to fit your ear canals.

👉 Having a calming period 30-60 minutes before bed. This can be meditation, breath work, warm bath or contrast if you're familiar with it, gentle movement (nothing that gets your heart rate up) or stretching, or any combination of these practices.

Check out this sleep meditation for a busy mind I have for you

And please let me know how these lifestyle shifts go for you! What's your biggest challenge with sleep?

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