My Way to Fight Overthinking and Get Enough Sleep
These are some of the things I do to reduce the overthinking that affects my focus and sleep time
Do you feel like you are overthinking more recently? Yap, it happened to me too. And one of the reasons why I feel that overthinking often happens is lack of movement or exercise.
Let’s remember again, before a pandemic like this we always went to the office at a distance that could be said to need energy, it turned out that this trivial thing I just realized had a much different benefit when compared to the distance between the bathroom and my room, seriously.
Therefore, exercise is highly recommended to be practiced every day.
One of the things I really hate about the effects of overthinking is a lack of focus at work and insomnia. Yes, I knew overthinking is not the only reason why it’s hard to sleep, like now where the schedule for sleeping has started to disappear, and the schedule that we usually use is meaningless at this time.
The Effect of overthinking
It is true that overthinking can affect many things, for example, excessive overthinking can cause various diseases according to the Health Site, such as disruption of the digestive system, potentially damaging the heart, affecting metabolism, damaging skin health, and thus damaging brain components.
Do you still want to maintain this overthinking feeling?
Things I do to reduce overthinking
As I mentioned earlier, one of the things I do to reduce overthinking is exercise and getting enough sleep.
I do exercise for at least 30 minutes, just 30 minutes alone can make me happier, especially when it also increases hormones such as dopamine, endorphins, and also serotonin which is also called the happiness hormone.
And exercise can also help me relax more during sleep, give a distance of at least 3 hours before sleep, so it can’t disrupt the sleep cycle.
For naps, during the day I usually take between 30 to 45 minutes, especially after tiring work and thinking, naps are best and this also makes me more relaxed, improves mood, and fatigue. But avoid taking naps in the late afternoon, this will make you experience sleep inertia or a feeling of dazedness after waking up.
One more thing that I practice before going to bed is to avoid objects that emit blue light on the screen, such as cellphones, laptops, and others. Because this blue light can delay our sleep.
For me, after applying it for a few weeks, I feel fresher, cheerful as if I am ready to fight any obstacle in front of me because we never know what else will happen. And while writing this I am also more focused even though my parents often bothered me watching funny videos on YouTube.
