Tips for a good night's rest if you are highly sensitive (HSP)

Are you lying awake at night worrying? Do you feel stress and tension in your body? Perhaps you receive so many stimuli during the day and are still so active in the evening that you cannot calm down and fall asleep. Or maybe you sleep so lightly that you often and quickly wake up during the night. Try to find out the cause of your sleep problems for yourself. This allows you to work purposefully on a solution.

When you are highly sensitive, you know that your surroundings are very important. Is your bedroom an inviting place to sleep? Does it have a pleasant atmosphere, is it clean and tidy? It is important that your bedroom is sufficiently dark so that you experience fewer stimuli and the production of the natural sleep hormone melatonin is not disturbed. Critically examine the amount of light entering the bedroom and adjust it if necessary with blackout curtains or a sleep mask. In addition, good ventilation, enough fresh air, and a comfortable temperature are important.

For some highly sensitive persons, it can help to minimize the presence of radiation and electrical devices in your bedroom. These can affect your energy field and sleep. Take an objective look at your bedroom and create your own oasis of calm.

Meditation is an excellent way to deal with your high sensitivity. It reduces stress, tension, and worrying, and helps you let go of thoughts and feelings. Through meditation, you strengthen yourself, especially if you are highly sensitive. There are various sleep meditations available, also specially for HSPs with sleep problems. Always discuss these first with your doctor.

By nature, our body is most active in the morning. The hormones and substances that make us active are higher in the morning than in the evening. Plan your day so that you are most active in the morning and consciously less physically and mentally active from a certain time onwards. So avoid busy household chores, working behind a screen, extensive chatting, or being active on social media just before going to bed. Also, exercising in the evening can disrupt your sleep rhythm.

It is better to slow down in the evening. For example, read a good book, take a long shower or bath, and care for your body. Really reserve time for yourself!

Highly sensitive persons respond very positively to rhythm and structure. Try to keep a fixed rhythm in the evening: go to bed at the same times and perform the same activities before going to sleep. In this way, you stimulate your body to produce sleep hormones.

It is important to keep trusting the healing power of your body. We understand very well that this is difficult if you have had sleep problems for a long time, but know that your body wants nothing more than for you to sleep well so that you can recover and rest well at night. If the tips do not work immediately, do not give up too quickly. Your body needs time to develop a healthy sleep rhythm again.

A weighted blanket can be a useful aid for highly sensitive persons who have trouble sleeping. It can reduce stress and have a positive influence on the emotions you experience. Because HSPs are more sensitive to stress and anxiety, they can benefit from a weighted blanket.

A weighted blanket weighs about 10-15% of your body weight and thus has a light pressing effect on your body. This can give a feeling of security and safety during sleep. In science, this is called deep pressure stimulation.

Deep pressure stimulation was originally developed to calm people who suffered from overstimulation. Overstimulation can occur with high sensitivity, but also with other conditions such as ADHD, autism, traumas and various other causes.

Children who are highly sensitive can also use a weighted blanket to sleep better. See our weighted blankets for children.

Deep pressure stimulation has a positive effect on the stress hormone cortisol and can strengthen the happiness hormone serotonin and the sleep hormone melatonin.

Serotonin has a positive influence on your mood, emotions, and sleep. Melatonin is produced when you go to sleep. HSPs who have trouble sleeping sometimes benefit from using a weighted blanket to stimulate the production of these two types of hormones.

As a highly sensitive person, you are more sensitive to sensory overstimulation. The calming effect of a weighted blanket can provide more relaxation during sleep. Therefore, a weighted blanket for HSPs can be useful not only for sleep but also to relax in the evening.

We hope that after reading this article you have gained more insight into sleep problems with high sensitivity and how a weighted blanket can offer a solution. With us, you can always try the weighted blanket for thirty days; if you do not like it, you may return it free of charge.