Try these proven techniques to take back your sweet dreams!
Eliminate caffeine from your life. Your body may be exhausted, but your mind is racing, fueled by a caffeine buzz, Cola, coffee, chocolate, some nutrition bars, and some sports drinks and vitamin-enhances drinks are caffeinated, so read the labels. If you must have caffeine, drink it before 2 p.m.


Turn your mind toward sleep. It’s hard to turn off those uncontrollable racing thoughts that keep us up at night. The following visualization exercise focuses your thoughts on sleep: Lie comfortably on your back and breathe normally. Imagine yourself on a beach, sitting near the water’s edge, looking out to the horizon. Sleep is on the horizon and you want to get there. In your imagination, listen to the waves lapping against the shoreline.

Tune in to the rhythm of the waves coming in and then receding from the beach. Coordinate your breath with the waves. Exhale as the waves recede from the beach. With each exhalation, let go of your body and think of sleep.