Does night time routine affect sleep?

Does night time routine affect sleep?

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Because sleep is a combination of biological systems and also psychological systems, then you need everything working together to get a good night sleep. Because routines can be a wind down, sort of relaxing part of and a prelude to going to sleep, they are as important as getting the environment right generally. In many ways, it is beginning to prepare the mental environment. There's a German proverb which comes out as the best pillow is a clear conscience and you can regard the winding your worries away prior to going to bed as one of the routines adopt before one goes to sleep.