A GUIDE TO THE PERFECT EVENING WITH HOUSE BABYLON & APOTHEM
To us, the hours leading up to bedtime are sacred. Having a healthy evening routine means your body begins slowing down and preparing for a restorative night’s sleep.
We’ve teamed up with Apothem Labs in putting together a guide to the perfect evening wind down. By shifting the focus on to those precious hours before bed, we take the pressure off of sleep and rather begin to enjoy the process of easing into slumber.
We all know how important it is to take time for yourself, so for this night-time ritual, put aside a couple of hours just for you.
Start by running yourself a hot bath with APOTHEM UNPLUG CBD Bath Salts, the Epsom salts in this botanical blend help to act as a mild sedative to help prepare the body for a restful night. Light House Babylon Palmyra candle, letting the warm, woody aroma of fresh cypress and cedarwood fuse with the eucalyptus of the bath salts.
After a nice, long soak step into your House Babylon bathrobe. Crafted from organic Turkish cotton and Oeko-Tex certified to reassure you it’s fully free of any harmful chemicals. Ultra-fluffy and super absorbent thanks to the long cotton fibres, this terrycloth bathrobe is the ultimate post-bathe treat.
Before getting into bed, reach for your LIGHTS OUT CBD Drops, taking around 4 to 5 drops, and leaving them under your tongue for 60 seconds. Formulated with the highest quality pure CBD, soothing L-Theanine, calming Chamomile and regulating 5-HTP these botanical drops are designed to calm the mind and release tension. Wrapped up with the natural flavours of vanilla and caramel, to ease you into your bedtime routine and enable a more restorative night’s sleep.
Finally, get tucked up into your House Babylon bed linen. Made from Egyptian cotton grown along the Nile Delta, the buttery soft and smooth feel with extra-long cotton threads make for an excellent, comfortable night’s sleep. Snuggle up, grab your favourite book or listen to a sleep cast before drifting off into bliss.
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION FOR BETTER SLEEP
It has proven that meditation has major physical and mental health benefits. There are meditation types that will allow you to focus on releasing daily stress, finding peace and bliss for a night of better sleep.
The following meditation will target different areas that may stop you from instantly hitting the pillow and snoozing.
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation involves training your mind to focus on your experiences, thoughts, emotions, and sensations by controlling your breathing, mental imagery, and self-awareness.
Let’s say you’ve had a scuffle with one of your work colleagues over a work deadline and you exercised control over your emotions. Mindfulness meditation before bed can help you visualise the encounter and process the negative emotions you restricted so you can let that negative energy go.
Similarly, this can help to fully re-experience and acknowledge positive emotions you’ve felt during the day, this can help you appreciate the positive aspects of your life long term. Research has shown that mindfulness meditation can help improve impulsiveness, emotion reactions, reduce fixation on negative emotions and overall relationship satisfaction.
Mindfulness requires self-observation, and despite being exhausting, it can lead to a more relaxed state of mind aiding sleep.
It’s important to know that there isn’t a right answer when meditating, but following these steps may help to dive in.
Choose your seat — Find a spot that makes you comfortable. Whatever you’re sitting on — a chair, a cushion or sofa — the spot must provide you stability.
Notice your legs — You can choose the standard crossing legs (if you already do seated yoga posture, go ahead). If on a chair, it’s good if your feet are on the ground to prevent you swinging them.
Straighten — Do not stiffen your upper body, that may put too much pressure and you won’t be able to relax. The spine has a natural curvature, let it be there.
Upper arms parallel — Having the arms parallel to your upper body will help you into a comfortable position. If your arms are too far forward, you’ll slouch. It’s fine if you take a while to find the perfect position, you’re tuning the strings of your body and that takes time.