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6 alternative sleep therapies
#6 Wake Therapy
This one surprised me when I starting experimenting with it as it’s counterintuitive to human nature. You sleep less so you probably think you need to go to bed earlier right? Well, it turns out the opposite is the case.
How does wake therapy work? You start by calculating your normal night’s sleep. For example, if you go to bed at 10 PM and wake up at 6 AM but wake up for 1.5 hours twice in the night then that’s 5 hours total sleep. You subtract the total sleep time from your wake time and that becomes your new bedtime. In the above example, this is now 1 AM. Each night thereafter you add 15 minutes to your overall sleep time (by going to bed 15 minutes earlier) until you reach your ideal sleep time. When doing this program you don’t take any naps or drink any alcohol as both can interrupt the program. This type of treatment also treats depression and anxiety and is one of many alternative sleep therapies recommended by Naturopaths.
I tried it for a while by going to bed later than normal and it did seem to work. I don’t specifically use this program on an ongoing basis but I have a modified version. It simply involves going to bed at exactly the same time each night — which for me, if you’ve read my book or blog, you would know is 10:24 PM. Not 10:23 or 10:27 – 10:24 on the dot.
Read: 5 reasons you wake up at night and how to stop
