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3 surefire ways to cure insomnia while
sleeping less!
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Seems like you never get enough
rest even after sleeping long hours? You would know part of the
reasons for this fatigue, as you suffer from insomnia. But the
other part on waking up tired even after a good long sleep
eludes you.
A good example of how insomnia wreck havoc in a person live can
be found my friend, Darren. Suffering from insomnia, he finds it
very difficult to concentrate and stay awake during the day.
This leads to a couple of failed relationship and lost
opportunities for promotion, because his tiredness is seen as
insincerity and no interest.
Highlighted above shows the mild effects of insomnia, the tragic
ones with many lives lost would be traffic accidents where the
drivers doze off.
Okay, now we succeeded in making you sit up and realized that
sleep disorder can disrupt your life, here's 3 surefire ways to
sleep once your head touches the pillow: -
Following a routine:
Following a routine would assist us to sleep better because of
our sleep cycle. 1 sleep-cycle contains 4 stages of sleep with
the last stage being the REM rapid eye movement sleep, which is
the easiest to wake up.
Getting up before or after REM sleep would make you very drowsy
and not rested. The former happens because you have not
completed 1 cycle, the latter because of the halting of a new
cycle. Therefore, from this experiment with your waking time,
you would know what time you are the most alert and that would
be the end of your REM.
And by the way, to get good sleep, you would need at least 1
cycle, which range between 5-6 hours depending on individuals.
So, to get quality sleep and to feel energetic for the entire
day, you do not need more sleep but waking at the right time (6
hours versus the recommended 8 hours).
Sleeping Environment:
Now, not all of us would enjoy the 'correct' sleep cycle. If you
suffer from insomnia, chances are, you might have a disrupted
cycle. So, we need to 'persuade' your sleep-cycle on when is the
right time to sleep and wake.
To do that we need to lowered our body temperature. Low
temperature makes one drowsy while high temperature makes one
alert.
Creating an environment would give the body the low temperature
(drowsy), sleep experts say that the ideal room temperature is
65 to 70 degrees F. This would give your body the low
temperature to fall asleep.
To make sleep even more effective, we should encourage the
production of a chemical known as melatonin, which induces
sleep.
A darkened room (darkness) would release melatonin. These two
prong approach would slowly conditioned your body to feel drowsy
for you to begin your sleep-cycle
Exercise:
To even better your sleep-cycle, you need to exercise, and
preferably in the daytime under the sun. Exercising under the
sun contributes to raising your body temperature.
As a rule of thumb, if you maintain a high body temperature
through the day, as night approaches, your body temperature
would drop and you would fall asleep easily (that's assuming
that you want to sleep at night).
Go ahead and learn more about sleep disorder and quality sleep.
Without reading this article, would you have known that sleeping
more does not mean better rest or feeling more energetic? So, to
effectively cure your insomnia and get more quality sleep, try
to see insomnia as your enemy, something you need to know more
in order to defeat it.
"Know thy enemy and know thyself, and you can win every battles" |
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