Coaching practices for Awe and Well Being Before Bed

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• By bedtime I’m still buzzing from the day and I get into bed wired
• Every night before bed looks completely different depending on my mood
• The minute my head hits the pillow the worries flood in and I lie there for hours, then the lost sleep makes the next day’s anxiety even worse
• I’m lying in bed tired but still keyed up
• The second my head hits the pillow my mind starts up

Practices that may help

1. Evening yoga routine for sleep
   A gentle 15-minute yoga sequence 30–60 minutes before bed lowers cortisol and core temperature to accelerate sleep onset.
   Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows
2. Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
   A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
3. The Pre-Sleep Worry Buffer
   Use a 10-minute afternoon or early evening worry review to protect sleep from nighttime rumination.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
4. The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
   A wind-down routine works by gradually reducing physiological arousal — light levels, core temperature, cognitive load, and sympathetic nervous system activity — in the 60–90 minutes before bed. The individual components (light reduction, cool room, worry journaling, avoiding screens) each have mechanistic or clinical support; the bundled routine itself is practitioner-established rather than RCT-proven as a whole.
5. Use 4-7-8 breathing as a sleep-onset ritual
   Four to eight cycles in bed before sleep reduces physiological arousal and supports the transition into sleep.
   4-7-8 Breathing, Made Practical
6. Schedule a worry time earlier in the day
   Contain bedtime worry by giving anxious thoughts a specific earlier window, then postponing them at night.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
7. Replace phone scrolling with a physical book at bedtime
   A physical book provides relaxation without blue light, notifications, or the variable-reward loop.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
8. Build a no-work buffer in the final 60 minutes
   Closing work tasks at least 60 minutes before bed allows the sympathetic nervous system to downregulate before sleep is attempted.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
9. Offload cognitive load with a bedtime worry journal
   Write tomorrow’s to-do list and any intrusive worries before bed — externalized thoughts stop competing for attention at sleep onset.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
10. Keep screens out of the bedroom
    Reserve the bed for sleep so the space itself cues winding down.
    The Digital Sunset

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