Health: 5 Keys to Better Sleep

5 Keys to Better Sleep

Written by Patricia Wagner

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5 KEYS TO BETTER SLEEP

by Patricia Wagner

Do you have trouble getting a good night's sleep?

What you are about to read may make a huge difference to your future health! Being well rested is essential to our wellbeing and is a major key in living an energetic lifestyle.

Here are some of repparttar 115376 benefits of a good night's sleep:

- You will look and feel your best.

- Relating to others will come easier with enough rest.

- You'll be a safer driver and be less likely to fall asleep at repparttar 115377 wheel.

- More alertness and creativity on repparttar 115378 job will be a major benefit.

- You'll feel less stressed.

- There'll be an increased ability to fight off illness.

- You'll enjoy life more.

Here are some keys to getting a better night's sleep:

1. Set your body clock.

Choose a bedtime schedule by deciding how many hours of shut-eye you need and try to stick with it. That's because we are all creatures of habit.

Try not to oversleep too often because this tends to throw your body clock off. If you are tired, try taking a short nap. However, it should not be longer than about one half an hour because more time than that and you will wind up not being able to fall asleep that night.

2. Be wise about eating and drinking.

Drinking too much fluid in repparttar 115379 late afternoon and evening can cause you to wake up in repparttar 115380 middle of repparttar 115381 night to trot off to repparttar 115382 bathroom. Also consuming food and beverages that contain caffeine before bedtime can cause you to toss and turn for hours. So it would be wise to avoid coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate before going to bed. However, a hot non-caffeinated drink can relax you.

3. Prepare your sleeping environment.

You have control over a number of factors in your sleeping environment that will make or break a good night's sleep.

Santa Claus Made me smoke - Ian Clark helped me quit

Written by Ian Clark

I am going to start with a number of preconceptions about smoking and start you to think in a different way about some of repparttar

most common reasons you will give for smoking. I will open this out further in repparttar 115374

subsequent chapters

The Belief

Smoking is Fun

What is repparttar 115375 nature of this psychological pleasure? It can be traced to repparttar 115376 universal desire for self-expression. None of us ever completely outgrows his childhood. We are constantly hunting for repparttar 115377 carefree enjoyment we knew as children. As we grew older, we had to subordinate our pleasures to work and to repparttar 115378 necessity for unceasing effort. Smoking, for many of us, then, became a substitute for our early habit of following repparttar 115379 whims of repparttar 115380 moment; it becomes a legitimate excuse for interrupting work and snatching a moment of pleasure. "You sometimes get tired of working intensely and if you sit back for repparttar 115381 length of a cigarette, you feel much fresher afterwards. It's a peculiar thing, but I wouldn't think of just sitting back without a cigarette. I guess a cigarette somehow gives me a good excuse."

The Reality

What started out as fun and excitement quickly moves to a new form of necessity and binding. Fun is spontaneous, it is a feeling that comes from doing something without fear of consequence. Lets face it smoking is no longer fun. It is something that has to be done to feel normal. Yet that is distorted as repparttar 115382 real normal should be repparttar 115383 times when you are not smoking. What you have done is attach moments and events to cigarettes, It is not repparttar 115384 actual cigarette that gives you that freedom, you always had it. You just do not think it will be repparttar 115385 same. Try it, you will be surprised how much better those times are, Remember non-smokers are no less relaxed because they do not smoke. You were not born with repparttar 115386 need to have nicotine put in your body every hour.

Smoking is a Reward

Most of us are hungry for rewards. We want to be patted on repparttar 115387 back. A cigarette is a reward that we can give ourselves as often as we wish. When we have done anything well, for instance, we can congratulate ourselves with a cigarette, which certifies, in effect, that we have been "good boys." We can promise ourselves: "When I have finished this piece of work, when I have written repparttar 115388 last page of my report, I'll deserve a little fun. I'll have a cigarette." The first and last cigarette in repparttar 115389 day are especially significant rewards. The first one, smoked right after breakfast, is a sort of anticipated recompense. The smoker has work to do, and he eases himself into repparttar 115390 day's activities as pleasantly as possible. He gives himself a little consolation prize in advance, and at repparttar 115391 same time manages to postpone repparttar 115392 evil hour when he must begin his hard day's work. The last cigarette of repparttar 115393 day is like "closing a door." It is something quite definite. One smoker explained: "I nearly always smoke a cigarette before going to bed. That finishes repparttar 115394 day. I usually turn repparttar 115395 light out after I have smoked repparttar 115396 last cigarette, and then turn over to sleep." Smoking is often merely a conditioned reflex. Certain situations, such as coming out of repparttar 115397 subway, beginning and ending work, voluntary and involuntary interruptions of work, feelings of hunger, and many others regulate repparttar 115398 timetable of smoking. Often a smoker may not even want a cigarette particularly, but he will see someone else take one and then he feels that he must have one, too. While to many people smoking is fun, and a reward in itself, it more often accompanies other pleasures. At meals, a cigarette is somewhat like another course. In general, smoking introduces a holiday spirit into everyday living. It rounds out other forms of enjoyment and makes them one hundred per cent satisfactory.

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