some simple ideas to help you go to sleep..
1. Start making it dark in your house or apartment earlier in the evening than you normally do.
Avoid a quick spell in the gym or rushing around with the hoover, or a couple of hours playing the latest violent computer game just before your bed-time. Think about how our ancestors got ready to go to sleep - they finished their working day, they had some dinner and maybe did a little work. Then relaxed until it got dark, and then they went to sleep.
These patterns are built into our DNA. If you divert from them you will not be following or satisfying your body's natural urges. Think about your lifestyle, especially what you do as bed-time approaches.
2. Eat some carbohydrate before bedtime. Carbohydrate foods are things like potatoes, rice, pasta, porridge oats, bread. Twelve hours could pass between your evening meal and breakfast. If you are hungry while asleep this will not help you to stay asleep.
3. Drink warm milk with a spoonful of honey before retiring to bed. Alcohol is a temporary crutch and not a sustainable cure for insomnia. Fizzy pop or squash drinks with millions of additives are not particularly conducive to a good night's sleep either. Ditto Red Bull, coffee, etc., use your common sense.
4. When you are in bed, try this relaxation technique: It's best to start with your face. Relax your jaw. Make sure your mouth is slightly open. Really concentrate on relaxing your face. It will be tense almost certainly - relax it. If you are worried about sleeping, or anything else, you face will be tense, and this makes it very difficult to get to sleep, so relax all of your face. When your face is fully relaxed you can imagine and feel your worries drifting away. Imagine them floating away into the distance until they disappear. Like clouds. Or bubbles. There they go..... all gone.
Especially relax your jaw and your forehead - and open your mouth a little. Then work you way up from toes, ankles, knees, etc. Relax each section before moving on to the next. Check every now and then that your face and jaw and forehead are still relaxed, and if worries reappear imagine them drifting away again until they disappear.
5. Imagine any remaining tension flowing out of your body through your toes, fingers, the crown of your head. Imagine it and feel it. Imagine your toes and fingers tingling as you release. Feel your body relaxing - there will be little sensations that you can feel as you relax and surrender. Feel for these sensations - focus inwardly on how your body feels. Feel your heart gently beating. Feel your breathing getting slower. Feel all over relaxing.
6. If you are still awake, check your breathing. Your breathing will have slowed. Concentrate on slowing it further. Breathe into your neck, then your chest, then abdomen. Avoid 'trying' to breathe. Let your body do it for you. It's actually quite a well-proven phenomenon - your body will breathe by itself.. Exhale fully. Use words (imagine - keep your mouth still) to help slow your breathing - breathe in 'love', breathe out 'peace' - or suitable calming alternatives. Imagine the words and sounds passing through your mouth.
7. Think of the colour purple. Make it appear in your mind's eye. Other colours may appear at first, but aim for the purple. Relax into the waves of purple.
8. Roll your closed eyes upwards three times, at any pace you like. (This happens naturally when you are falling asleep and evidently triggers some sleep chemical in our body).
..... and repeat stages 4 to 8 until you are asleep ...good luck