5 Rituals to Better Your Nighttime Routine
5 Rituals to Better Your Nighttime Routine
Dear Angels, Getting a good night’s rest is one of the best ways to support our overall health and productivity. Quality sleep allows our skin to repair and regenerate overnight, boosting collagen production for a glowy, firm finish. It also helps to reduce inflammation, balance hydration, and prevent issues like dark circles or puffiness.So, how can we improve our nighttime routine and help our bodies relax, ensuring the best night’s sleep?
1. Create a Nighttime Playlist That Calms Your Nervous System
First things first, when it comes to settling down for the night, we press play on our nighttime routine playlist. Playing slow, calming music can instantly affect how we feel and help us switch off from the day. Having this on in the background as we do our skincare makes us feel completely relaxed. It’s almost as if we are at the spa, adding that little extra luxury to our everyday routine and setting us up for an amazing sleep.
2. Add a 5-Minute Lymphatic Massage
Breathwork is a powerful way to calm the mind and regulate the nervous system. By focusing on your breath, you can shift into a restorative “rest and digest” state, perfect for transitions, like winding down after work or after a workout.
After applying skincare, use a bit of body oil or moisturiser and gently massage key lymph nodes: under the ears, collarbones, armpits, lower abdomen, and behind the knees. Follow with long, upward strokes towards these areas to encourage lymph flow.
Here’s a great video example we love.
3. Elevate Your Space
Ensuring your environment is clean, calm, and supportive of a regulated nervous system is key. We love to elevate our space with a few candles, soft lighting, cosy blankets, and, of course, wearing our SL pyjamas. When we put on our SL pyjamas, we instantly feel feminine, clean, and incredibly comfy. This helps signal to our bodies that we are safe, comfortable, and ready to sleep.
4. Take a Magnesium Supplement
Magnesium supports better sleep by calming the nervous system, reducing stress, and promoting melatonin production (our body’s sleepy hormone). It also improves our skin health by reducing inflammation, supporting collagen production, and enhancing hydration. There are many types of magnesium, but the best one for sleep is magnesium glycinate, as it is easily absorbed and known for its calming effects on the nervous system.We love this magnesium supplement by JS Health.
*Always consult your healthcare professional before adding magnesium supplements to your routine.
5. Swap Phones for Books
While we all know that looking at your phone’s blue light can stimulate our brains and worsen our sleep, it can be super hard to ditch the phone completely. Adding in some reading time before bed, even just a few pages, can be a great way to get off our screens before sleep without going to the extreme of locking it in another room. If you struggle to read at night, listening to an audiobook in bed could be the trick, as you’re not scrolling or looking at the light but still getting to ‘read’ some of the books on your list. Spotify’s ‘timer mode’ is a great way to do this, as the audiobook will stop automatically without you having to look at the screen when it’s time to fall asleep.
Let us know how you go with these simple little luxury tips. Sweet dreams, angels <3