People go through stages where they have no trouble falling asleep at bedtime, but arriving at 3 or 4 in the morning, wake up and find it very difficult to go back to sleep.
This is what is known as nocturnal awakenings and it can cause you to be totally exhausted in the morningBecause you have not been able to provide your body with the hours of sleep it needs to repair itself.
Stress is almost always behind the trouble falling back to sleep when you wake up at night. To reduce it, practice yoga regularly or an exercise that de-stress. Writing down the pending tasks before going to bed also helps to leave stress out of the body, being noticed in a calmer mind and totally given over to sleep.
Light from screens interferes with melatonin production, the sleep hormone. In this way, it is important to give up playing with your smartphone or tablet to get a good night's rest. To relax in bed, it is best to read a book or write in a journal.
When you wake up at night don't look at the clock every two minutes. Watching the minutes go by and you can't get back to sleep creates a feeling of stress and frustration that only adds to the situation. Hide the clocks and focus on your breathing so you don't trigger more nervousness from lack of sleep.
As they get older, both men and women see that their need to urinate at night increases, which together with a lighter sleep, is a great obstacle to sleep at once. Avoid having to get up in the morning to go to the bathroom giving up the intake of any type of drink a couple of hours before going to bed.