Devoting time each day to practices that improve falling and staying asleep, such as meditation, yoga nidra, or hypnosis, is a beneficial habit.

“The other thing about these practices like meditation, yoga nidra, and hypnosis, is people would always say to me, "Well, when should I do them?" and I always say, "Well, the best time of day to do it "is when you first wake up in the morning, "provided you've gotten your sunlight already, "anytime you wake up in the middle of the night, "or any time of day. In other words, they're always good for you because it's a training mechanism by which you self-train your nervous system to go from a state of heightened alertness that you don't want to heightened relaxation that you do want, and so it's really teaching you to hit the brake”