Sleepless Nights
Have you always complaint that your back aches when waking up or even having difficulty falling asleep? These are just some of the sleeping syndromes that we face in our everyday lives. Sometimes we do question how much sleep is actually enough to help keep us awake and work better or what should we do to get a good night sleep. Even though we try a few methods, it still doesn’t work.
In actual fact, the amount of sleep needed varies tremendously between individuals. There is no ”normal” amount. However, the amount that any one person needs is amazingly constant. Although you may sleep longer one night than another depending on circumstances, the number of hours slept over a week or a month usually averages out very much the same; one week usually falls within one-half hour of another week. Eight hours of sleep a night is the usual quoted average, although seven to seven and a half hours is more accurate for most people. Even that number is only an average and has nothing to do with what’s good or bad. A good night’s sleep can range from less than three hours to more than ten.
Even though now we know the basic amount of sleep that we need, yet we still wonder why we can’t sleep, why we keep waking up at night and lots more. But have we ever really sit and think what actually leads us to not having a good sleep and thus develop bad sleeping habits?
From what we gather in our eResources the reasons behind this are:
• Failing to keep to a regular sleep-wake schedule
• Depriving your body of sleep by staying up to work or play on a frequent basis
• Trying to “catch up” on lost sleep during the weekend
• Watching late-night TV
• Excessive napping during the day
• Thinking of work-related problems while in bed
• Excessive time awareness or frequent clock-watching while in bed
• Feeling “too tired” to exercise during the day
• Exercising vigorously too close to bedtime
• Drinking tea or caffeine-containing colas close to bedtime
So if you fall under one of this category, you should know by now what contributes to your sleepless nights. And the guilty ones, it would be advisable to reflect upon yourself now because according to research, prolong sleepless nights would result in insomnia and as most of you should know, far from being a benign, harmless condition, insomnia causes thousands of deaths every year.
So what can we actually do to help ourselves from suffering further without consulting the doctor? Here at digitalk we try to give you the solutions to overcome this problem without hassling you to go to the bookstore to get the right book. Its all available here at our very own digital library.
There are variety of remedies found so we will extract the most important one for you.
- Don’t Go To Bed Too Early
- Avoid Naps
- Adopt a Good Sleeping Posture
- Improve Your Sleep Environment
Lighting
Mattress
Pillows
Noise
Ventilation
- Limit or Avoid Caffeine, Especially After Early Afternoon
- Exercise Regularly for Good Sleep
- Lose Weight
- Eliminate or Lessen the Unhealthy Stress in your Life
- Laugh
The remedies above are mainly listing, but if you are interested to read further, we recommend you to read it at our NetLibrary titled 67 Ways to Good Sleep and also Herbs for a Good Night’s Sleep: Herbal Approaches to Relieving Insomnia Safely and Effectively.
Have a good night sleep after reading this.