Your Lifestyle Can Affect Your Sleep

Learn The Skill Of Good Sleep

You are in control of how you approach sleep, you need to understand its benefits and also learn the ‘skill’ of good sleep. Many of the habits you had as a child will affect your sleep throughout life. If you slept badly as a child you may need to completely re-educate yourself back to good habits. Finally don’t be concerned about how much sleep you get, measure your success by how alert and rested you feel during the day and can cope with day time activities.

Causes Of Troubled Sleep

Our twenty first century lifestyles are fast-paced and full of stimulation. Often from the moment when we wake up and check our smart phones, life is fast paced and non-stop. We put on the radio or television to be given the news as it happens and when it happens, we check our emails constantly throughout the day; we sit at our computers and/or watch television late into the evening. It barely stops and it can be difficult to switch off and wind down so it’s small wonder that many of us have trouble sleeping.

Until about 100 years ago, we worked hard physically, went to bed when it got dark and got up when it was light. In this way we went to bed unconfused by changes in our body clock, and physically rather than mentally exhausted. Our worries centred more on the health and lives of our families and putting food on the table rather than some of the more complex issues that keep us up. Often, when we should be winding down the brain is still active and stimulated so it becomes difficult to rest and relax. This can lead to ‘lifestyle insomnia’, where sleeping difficulties result from a full, busy and stressful lifestyle.

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