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The more natural your habit, the more beneficial. Relying on sleep aids supersedes programming your body to do it on its own. Sleep is reliant on body chemistry. Our habits and environment are factors that trigger the chemicals that induce and control sleep.
Bringing in sleep aids might require a continuation of sleep aids for it to work. It's a synthetic reaction you'd be after. It's up to you, of course, but I'd suggest trying to program your body to use what it's already capable of.
At least consider a brief melatonin supplementation rather than using Ambien or Tylenol PM.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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