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How to Sleep Better
If you make up the 33% of adults who
suffer from
sleeplessness, you may wonder how to sleep
better at night. For most insomniacs this is the holy
grail of questions. For the insomniac, bedtime is a
lonely, frustrating and often depressing time.
More often than not insomnia does
not develop overnight, rather it’s a learned habit. In
some cases insomnia can be triggered by a traumatic
event or troubling time in someone’s life. A night of
sleeplessness may develop into insomnia if it becomes
a nightly experience.
Generally insomnia is a result of
normal daily life. Financial struggles, work,
relationships and family life can all be factors in
its cause. You may have guessed already that stress is
a major cause of insomnia.
We live in a profit and success
driven world where heart attacks, strokes and
depression is becoming common place. Stress is an
accepted part of our daily lives and yet it is one of
the most damaging factors to our mental and physical
health.
Because of this acceptance, we
undermine its destructive effects and ignore the
body’s signal of excessive stress. In fact, just a
little stress a day is bad for you. When we experience
it in huge doses, you may experience headaches,
tension, palpitations, blurred vision and
irritability.
More seriously it can weaken the
immune system, lead to psychosomatic illnesses,
depression, anxiety disorders, heart attacks and
strokes. This is why it is absolutely vital to deal
with stress before it fully emerges.
How do we do this? You can use such
techniques as EFT which stands for Emotional Freedom
Technique, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Through these techniques you can learn to counteract
stress before it unleashes its devastating effects on
the mind and body.
It is important to note that the
sleep process doesn’t begin as soon as you rest your
head. The day reflects into the night. You cannot
expect to rush around all day, with thoughts of worry,
stress on your mind and expect to fall asleep with
ease.
So the question is not how to sleep
better, rather ‘How to live better and healthier’. By
dealing with stress effectively you can live a
happier
and healthier life.
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