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If you’re having trouble sleeping…

11 Friday Mar 2022

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…an exercise created by the U.S. Navy during World War II will have you asleep in 120 seconds. Do this: Totally relax your face, drop your shoulders, and let your arms and legs go limp. Then, clear your mind by picturing yourself lying under an empty blue sky, snuggling in a black velvet hammock in a dark room, or repeating “don’t think, don’t think” for 10 seconds. It has a 96% success rate after 6-weeks of practice. If you don’t remember those steps, just Google “how to fall asleep in 120 seconds.” The technique is widely-written about, and you’ll be able to find it easily. 

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The importance of getting more sleep!

05 Tuesday Oct 2021

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If you’re anxious about what you have on your plate tomorrow, get a little more sleep tonight. According to the experts at UC Berkeley, increasing your sleep before a stressful event – by turning in a little earlier, or sleeping a little later – can reduce anxiety. It works by decreasing activity in the area of the brain that heightens stress – the amygdala. So if you have a job interview tomorrow – an exam – or an important sales call – get a little more sleep, and you’ll feel calmer and more in control tomorrow.  

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Stick to a regular schedule for your health!

02 Monday Aug 2021

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What’s the very best way to boost your overall health? Keep a regular schedule for eating, sleeping, exercising and taking medication. That advice comes from Dr. David Agus. He’s one of the world’s leading cancer doctors. Dr. Agus says, when we maintain a regular schedule, we’ll feel more energized and our health will automatically improve. And because our body expects certain things at certain times, we’ll sleep better, have better digestion and keep our body rhythms in sync.

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If you’re having trouble sleeping…

13 Wednesday Jan 2021

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…an exercise created by the U.S. Navy during World War II will have you asleep in 120 seconds. Do this: Totally relax your face, drop your shoulders, and let your arms and legs go limp. Then, clear your mind by picturing yourself lying under an empty blue sky, snuggling in a black velvet hammock in a dark room, or repeating “don’t think, don’t think” for 10 seconds. It has a 96% success rate after 6-weeks of practice. If you don’t remember those steps, just Google “how to fall asleep in 120 seconds.” The technique is widely-written about, and you’ll be able to find it easily. 

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To fall back asleep fast – try this:

28 Monday Dec 2020

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Think about something you love. I mean, really think about it, to the point you immerse yourself in the visualization. That advice comes from sleep specialist Dr. Christopher Winter. He’s a sleep coach for professional baseball players – and tells them to visualize throwing 30 perfect pitches. Smell the grass, feel the seams on the ball, feel the sun on your face, hear the crowd – picture everything. He says his patients usually can’t make it past 5 pitches before they’re back asleep. Dr. Winter says visualization reduces anxiety and lets our brain’s sleep mechanism take over. And according to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 65% of the hospital patients who used that visualization technique took less time to fall asleep, experienced significant improvement in sleep quality, and felt less fatigued the next day.

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Don’t go to bed if you’re not tired. Try this instead!

08 Wednesday Apr 2020

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Next time bedtime rolls around and you’re not tired, don’t go to bed and lie there awake. You’ll just condition yourself to associate your bed with staring at the ceiling and frustration, instead of peaceful slumber. Instead, stay up half an hour – or an hour – later. But set your alarm to get up at the usual time the next day. According to the Annals Of Internal Medicine, that’ll help you get sleepy before you hit the hay. And then, because you missed 30 to 60 minutes of sleep the night before when you go to bed the next night, you should conk out right away.

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Friends help you sleep better!

31 Friday Jan 2020

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People who spend quality time with friends sleep better at night. But those who feel lonely have trouble dozing off, and feel less energetic and less focused the next day. Research at the University of Rochester found that strong friendships reduce stress and anxiety, and make us feel more secure and relaxed. And that reduces activity in the brain area that stays vigilant at night. Basically, if we’re lonely, we feel vulnerable, insecure, and unprotected, even while we sleep, and part of our brain stays on alert for self-protection. So hanging with your friends during the day is your brand new sleeping pill.

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Here are some sleep facts:

14 Tuesday Jan 2020

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You need sleep more than you need food. You can survive two weeks without food, but 10 days without sleep will kill you.

Next: All-nighters make you feel drunk. Going 16 hours without sleep makes you feel as loopy and out of it as if you’d had a couple beers.

Finally: Messing with your sleep cycle can cause cancer. The evidence is so strong that the World Health Organization considers poor sleep quality and a lack of sleep carcinogens.

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Do you drool when you sleep?

10 Tuesday Dec 2019

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When you’re asleep, it’s NOT normal to drool – that’s when you salivate, but don’t swallow. Because even at night, we swallow about 3 times an hour. So why do we wake up in a pool of drool? One reason: We sleep on our side, so saliva doesn’t collect in our mouth and trigger our swallowing reflex. Also, people with sleep apnea drool because their swallow-reflex is damaged. We also drool when we smell delicious food, even if we’re sleeping or the aromas are in our DREAMS. So, you drool at night because you’re a side sleeper, you have sleep apnea, or someone’s baking cookies at 2AM, at least in your dreams.

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Now you can go to the gym… to nap!

31 Wednesday Jul 2019

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It’s a trend our researchers spotted, with many fitness centers offering a class called “Napercize” – where you work out for a while, then go down for a nap with a bunch of strangers. The temperature is taken down to 67 or 68 degrees, which is ideal for sleeping, and each person gets a little cot, a blanket, and an eye mask.

The class is designed to help boost your mental and physical wellbeing and reinvigorate the mind and body.

While it may seem ridiculous to some people, taking naps has remarkable benefits for our mental health, which is backed by research from Pennsylvania’s Allegheny College. And think about it: Nap-time has been working for years in kindergartens all over the planet. So, maybe it’s time for us adults to give Napercize a try.

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