Sometimes I take melatonin, but I don't really like to do that a lot. Sometimes I do the breathing exercises, I do tapping exercises, I do muscle relaxing exercises, or I'll do yoga before bed. A big thing that I've noticed is I tend to get anxious when I'm on my phone a lot before I go to bed, and that's sometimes what prevents me from falling asleep easily. So stay off technology screens before bed. I try to go at least an hour before bed without being on a screen.
Growing up, I struggled with major sleeping issues and like sometimes I could not fall asleep at all. I would just close my eyes and wake up next morning knowing that I did not get any sleep and it was painful. But my tip for sleeping is that you set a time to sleep then before one hour or before 30 minutes don't use any kind of electronic device. Like don't scroll your phone and like don't use your computer. That will distract you and not make you fall asleep on time. And I think if you do this, if you not use electronic device or phone, I think it will be very helpful for you to sleep. So try that.
The number one tip for sleeping if you are too anxious is to get down. Challenge yourself to do 500 push-ups. When you get close to it, most of you will give up because it's too hard and you'll sleep. If you make it there, you'll feel so proud of yourself and you'll want to take a nap.
There are some nights when I'm not able to fall asleep and instead of fighting not being able to sleep and trying to force myself to sleep, what I have found that works for me is just to accept that, you know, my mind is not resting right now and so then I would just kind of get up and do any relaxing things. I would stretch, I would watch a show, I would just do things with my time that were still relaxing enough to like calm me down and put me in that state that would be ready to sleep, but instead of getting worked up and frustrated over the facts that I couldn't sleep, I would kind of do things to take my mind off of it and that seemed to help me calm down and be able to go to sleep later.
Melatonin helps me a lot, but in the long term, like establishing a routine of like what you do before you go to sleep, like, okay, I'm getting ready for bed. I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, and I'm going to do that. Your brain will remember, and as you continue to do that, it'll start getting you ready to go to sleep. That should help, and then your body will start to feel more tired. Definitely a big part of it is repetition and consistency, because for me, it's certainly been difficult to get good sleep, but when I get in that rhythm, it's pretty effective.
The best tip I have for sleeping is doing the from top to bottom or head to toe um body shutdown trick. So starting with your head, you're laying in bed, your eyes are closed in a comfortable position and you close your eyes. First you start with your head, you let your physical head relax completely, then you move on to your neck. You make sure your neck is all relaxed and your shoulders, your spine, your stomach and then all the way down to your very toes. It just lets your body relax and it keeps your mind off of the things that might keep your mind racing.