\The initial solution that comes to the minds of individuals who find it hard to sleep at night is to take sleeping pills or some commercially-available sedative.
This is mainly because of a lack of knowledge of alternative solutions and remedies to the conventional treatments against insomnia.
Sometimes though, a simple change in your lifestyle can do a lot to help you sleep better at night.
One of the things that you can do it focus on what helps you sleep during the times that you are successful in getting a shut-eye.
Try to remember what happened the last time you were able to get a really restful sleep.
What did you do (or not do) before you went into bed? What were you thinking (or not thinking) before you closed your eyes? What was the surrounding like, the temperature, the ambiance, the scent in the room, etc.
Looking at what helps you sleep is one of the best ways to deal with insomnia.
Once you have determined what helps you sleep then the thing that you have to do is try to replicate the situation and the condition from the last time that you were able to sleep well.
This is not to say that you have to recreate the condition, point by point.
All you need to do is to get the general idea of the condition and then try to have something as close to it as possible the next time you go to bed.
Sometimes, people with insomnia really do not need to take pills in order to help them fall asleep at night.
Stress is one of the cause of insomnia.
If you feel that stress is the reason for your sleeplessness then you can try the many known relaxation techniques such as meditation or listening to relaxing music or sounds.