sleep is so undervalued

I am in a terrible cycle--I want to play around and hang out and relax, so I stay up late. Then I'm tired, but it's not so bad. Then I get kind of anxious, because I'm tired. I don't want to go to sleep because I'm anxious and I know it'll take awhile. So I go to bed late... then maybe I'm too tired to exercise, which makes the low energy/ high anxiety problem worse. Then maybe I snack to keep my energy up; eating at night makes it harder to get to sleep... and so on.

I'm reading a book called Calm Energy that discusses tension and energy and the things we do to regulate it. One problem is that frequent exercise is important to dissolve tension build-up--we evolved to have frequent activity. Maybe you're running around, playing with your friends, or gathering berries, or building a shelter, it doesn't matter. Now we are stuck at desks, and it's so easy to munch on foods or take a drag off a cigarette to release this tension. It goes into sleep and exercise as well.

I am just committing to a certain schedule. I have to follow it, even if I don't feel like it. Even if it means I lay in bed awake. His suggestions on short spurts of exercise and other tension dissolvers are also good. And soon I'll be outside a lot--that should be good for me.