So we need to rest our bodies each day to keep our minds clear and our energy levels up. Along with a healthy, nutritious diet and regular exercise, sleep is a vital part of keeping ourselves running 'at our best'.
Sleep deprivation has been linked with many health issues. Here are some fantastic reasons to ensure you do get enough sleep and take part in the 'napping' revolution......
• Sharpen your thinking so you make more accurate judgments and better decisions
• Ramp up your productivity
• Regenerate skin cells so you look younger
• Increase your sex drive
• Help you lose weight by altering metabolism and shifting chemicals that affect appetite
• Reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, and other cardiovascular problems
• Lift your mood by bathing your brain in the neurotransmitter serotonin
• Speed up your ability to perform motor tasks, like typing, operating machinery, even swimming
• Improve your accuracy—in everything
• Improve the way your body processes carbs, which reduces your risk of diabetes
• Sharpen your senses so you take in what's important in your environment—and screen out the 24-hour culture chatter that surrounds us
• Put your brain into its creative gear so you can come up with fresh ideas
• Trigger a naturally occurring hormone that blocks the destructive chemicals produced by stress
• Boost your ability to learn something new—and, better yet, remember it
• Zap the need for drugs like caffeine and alcohol to manipulate your mood and energy level
• Relieve migraines
• Improve your night-time sleep by eliminating that wired feeling and thus shutting off the brain chatter
• Make you feel good all over
Enter - 'The Nana nap'! If you haven't tried it, you need to! A brief close of the eyes (about 20 minutes is ideal) and quiet time do wonders for your energy, sanity and mental state. Have you not heard the 'a 20 minute power nap could save your life' advertisements to prevent fatigue driven car accidents?
Many large companies are even providing 'sleep zones' for their employees to sneak away to get a quick moment of shut-eye, and it IS working in the company productivity stakes!
If you have trouble turning off your mind during a busy day, try listening to a guided mediation CD for 10minutes to get you started, then set the alarm and you're away!!
Just be careful about sleeping for too long (e.g. over an hour, as you start to enter a deep sleep state and you will wake up feeling drowsy).
Happy snoozing Gorgeous Girls!
Xxx
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