Sleep impacts health - studies have confirmed that sleep affects every aspect of your health – from shortening lifespan, suppressing immune systems, making it harder to process stress, being forgetful, aging, increasing the craving for bad carbs and sugars. Are you feeling me? Sleep is serious business.
The irony is so many people forgo sleep in the name of getting stuff done and doing more. We invest so much time into to do lists and multi-tasking, yet we fail to realise our productivity is reduced substantially when we are sleep deprived.
We fail to realise our productivity is reduced substantially when we are sleep deprived.
I know from my own experience, when we are sleep deprived we are more likely to overreact, be irritable, vulnerable to stress and overeat. I remember spending 10 years sleep deprived raising my 2 children. I had begun to accept that parents were perpetually short tempered, agitated and living off 4-5 hours of sleep was normal.
It is delusional to think that we can function well on four or five hours sleep. Many of us wake up in the middle of the night and make broken sleep worse by reaching for our phone, writing text messages or checking emails. Did you know that the blue light from your phone acts like an alert stimulant making going to sleep harder? This type of behaviour is indicative of an addiction.
“Just as we wouldn’t eat off dirty dishes, why would we settle for going through the day with anything less than the full power and potential of our brains”, says Arianna Huffington. Arianna is the author of ‘The Sleep Revolution’ outlining how sleep is the path to success. She shows us how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted, compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, personal lives and even our sex lives.
5 Steps to enhance sleep in a more natural way:
Stop caffeine at 2pm
Have a clear bedtime routine including going to bed at a consistent time, wearing PJs…or not
Stop technology 30 minutes before bedtime, have herbal tea, read a book, listen to a meditation, write a journal instead
Remove all technology from the bedroom
Have a bath with Epsom Salts
If sleep and stillness is a challenge, then allow me invite you to ‘Courage to be You’ event where you can learn further techniques for stillness and unlock what is holding you back in taking your first steps towards who you truly are. We will love to share this experience with you.
Partner with me and walk away with a workbook with exercises to quieten your mind and a FREE Float Therapy voucher valued at $79.