Hello my darings! I don't know if your getting stressed yet, but I certainly am! Since the start of school I have been swamped with school work and looming tests and my busy schedule isn't helping. Getting back into the grove of school is difficult with waking up early, extra circulars and the never ending homework and being stressed is the last thing you want.
Yesterday was an especially stressful day, school was unbearably hot with no air conditioning and I got a ton of homework! Than after school I had a doctors appoint, it typically takes anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour to get home because of the traffic coming out of the city so by the time I got home it was already four! Then once I finished at the doctors it was around 4:40 so I had about an hour and forty minutes to do my home work before I had to get ready for a 7:00 soccer practice twenty minutes away. That is no where near enough time for my homework! I was so stressed trying to get it all done and study for a HUGE test I have on tomorrow.
This extremely stressful day made me realize the importance of calming down at night. So I thought I would share some of my ideas so that hopefully you wont be too stressed! It is important to separate the time you finish your homework from the time you go to sleep. If you finish your homework and then so to sleep right after you will be left thinking about the test you just finished studying for or the essay you finished. This will fill your half asleep mind with stressful thoughts of "What if I didn't study enough" or "What if I get a bad grade" making you loose the precious little time you have to sleep.
Some of the things that I do before I go to sleep that help me calm down are...
1. Take a shower. I take my showers at night so my hair doesn't get frizzy, but it also calms me down and makes me sleepy!
2. Drink tea! I absolutely love tea! It is one of my favorite things, and it can also be very calming. At night there is nothing that makes me sleepier than a nice cup of chamomile or a sleepy green. Make sure that you are drinking a non-caffinated kind though or that could be bad!
3. A good book! If all else fails a great book that takes you away from the outside world is a great night time distraction. You do not have to read much just a couple of pages can make all the difference.
4. The right PJs. Personally I like the matching variety, I just think they are darling. I have a winter pair and a summer pair. The right type of PJ can put you in the perfect mood for a nice slumber!
Whats your night time calmer?
Love and blazers,
Julia
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