SLEEPING troubles or always TIRED?? 4 Tips for YOU.
Surveys have shown that on average, adults in the US feel tired for three days of the week and 30 to 48% of adults have trouble sleeping.
Now, I’ve been looking into the science behind sleep for quite a while, but things can get super confusing!!! It’s hard to figure out what’s actually good advice to follow and what is bad advice to ignore.
So whats actually the thing that causes trouble is SLEEP ANXIETY, which is the feeling of being scared or worried or concerned about your sleep, which paradoxically actually further contributes to you being unable to sleep and this creates this kind of vicious cycle, which is not very good.
4 Tips that will help u lower your SLEEP ANXIETY and keep u ENERGETIC.
- It does matter when you sleep and if u have slept enough. It turns out that when we sleep is actually super important as well, and that’s all because of this thing called the circadian rhythm.So the circadian rhythm is essentially your body’s internal clock that signals to your body what you need at a given time.
Now, since our internal clocks are sensitive to light, it means that generally we want to be awake when it’s bright outside and we want to be asleep when it’s dark outside.
2. Find your Chronotypes. So when you hear people saying, I’m a morning person or I’m a night owl, that relates to something called your chronotype. For example, if you’re more of a morning person, you might find that it’s better to put your creative or your kind of highest focused related activities in the morning. Whereas if you’re a night owl, that’s totally fine. If you can control your schedule, it’s generally worth trying to tweak things around so that you’re doing focused stuff at night.
3. You should wake up at the same time every day. but you don’t really need to be overly pedantic about it. So eating at the same time, getting light exposure at the same time, that all acts to stabilise. However, you know, there’s going to be an occasion where you have a party, you’re going to get up late. You know, and sleep is very dynamic.And the other thing to keep in mind is that our circadian rhythms can change over the course of our life cycle.
4. Do not use sleep apps, they don’t help you sleep better. I currently use an eight sleep mattress, which is admittedly quite good. And I used to kind of keep track of all of my kind of sleep data. But what I would find is that I wake up in the morning and be like, oh, my sleep readiness score is 54%. I was like, oh, but I was feeling reasonable. I guess I’m not actually feeling reasonable. I guess my sleep score is 54%, so I guess I should be having a bad day. And it’s like, I ended up sort of weirdly placed affecting myself in a negative way because of what these very sleep tracking apps were telling me about the quality of my sleep.
Anyway, if you enjoyed this article and want to get more details plz consider this book SLEEP: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by Steven W. Lockley , Russell G. Foster.
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