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10 Ways to get a good nights sleep

Sleep plays a major role in your physical and mental health. Getting enough sleep protects our mental health, our physical well-being, growth and development, helps us feel rested, energized, and able to accomplish our days’ tasks successfully, safely. A routine of good sleep can improve your overall health and wellness drastically. Unfortunately, there are so many factors that can interfere with sleep: work, stress, responsibilities, illness, and other factors. Insufficient sleep can lead to chronic health issues, such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes, safety issues if we are operating vehicles or machinery, or can cause mental deficiencies in learning, working and communicating. If you are looking to improve your overall health, try these 10 ways to help achieve a better night’s sleep: 1.  Keep a Consistent Sleep Schedule To achieve this goal, set a bedtime that is early enough for you to get eight hours of sleep, the recommended amount of sleep for a healthy adult. Do not go to bed unless you are tired.  Try to wake up the same time every day, even on weekends and vacations. Limit any daytime naps to 30 minutes, and avoid napping late in the day, as this can disrupt sleep. Consistency

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Ways to Treat Chronic Pain Without Surgery So You Can Sleep

According to the American Academy of Pain Management, 1.5 billion people worldwide are suffering from some form of chronic pain. That is a great number of people having to go about their daily lives with chronic pain and not being able to function 100%. If you have chronic pain that is hard to relieve, or you’re waiting to have surgery, it can be really tough to live with.  If you are suffering with some form of chronic pain, then you might feel like the best thing for you to do is to take it easy and to lay in bed, rest, relax, and not do anything that could cause more pain. However, there is research that shows that moving your body can actually be one of the best things that you can do for some chronic pain relief. What Is Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is a persistent type of pain, which lasts more than 12 weeks, despite any treatments or medication to end the pain. Most chronic pain comes from pain with backaches, arthritis, and headaches. Chronic pain can impact your joints, bones, and your muscles. It can also feel like it is all over your body, rather than just

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Surprising Health Benefits of Sleep

Sleep plays one of the most important roles our lives. In order to live a healthy and fulfilled lifestyle it is vital to get enough sleep each day to protect your body and mind. Unfortunately, it is easy to forget the importance of sleep. Everyone is so busy working full time jobs, raising children, and more, that there has become a modern-day misconception that sleep isn’t important as the other things we have to do, so not enough time is set aside for a healthy amount of sleep. But it is sleep that is the pivotal element to health and high-performance, so we can perform all our daily tasks. Your Body Repairs and Restores Overnight The average sleep recommendation for an adult is 7 to 9 hours per evening. According to a study, nearly two thirds of all adults in the United States were not getting enough sleep. Many people believe that they can function well with six hours of sleep or less, but that simply isn’t the case. As human beings, our brains are very tuned in, but will ignore signs of sleep deprivation and fatigue. This means that many of us are getting insufficient amounts of sleep, but

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How Set Yourself Up For The Best Sleep Possible

If we’re going to be at our best, then it’s important that we are getting a good night’s sleep. If we are well-rested, then it’s much easier to tackle the day head-on; if we have a night of tossing and turning, then we could be sluggish the entire day that follows. If you’re one of those people that suffer with their sleeping habits, then it’s important to make some changes. Below, we take a look at a few essential tips and hints that’ll have you sleeping better than ever. The Right Lighting When we think of lighting in relation to sleep, we usually think of the bedroom, and how bright it is. While it’s important to make your bedroom dark enough to sleep in, it’s not the only light-matter that’ll affect your sleeping routine. You also need to get natural light into your system. Why? It’s all because of your circadian rhythm, which tells your body when to be awake and when to fall asleep. If you don’t get any natural light in the morning, your body’s circadian rhythm won’t reset. So, go for a short walk in the morning; even 5 minutes is fine. If you don’t live in

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10 Ways to get a good nights sleep

Sleep plays a major role in your physical and mental health. Getting enough sleep protects our mental health, our physical well-being, growth and development, helps us feel rested, energized, and able to accomplish our days’ tasks successfully, safely. A routine of good sleep can improve your overall health and wellness drastically. Unfortunately, there are so many factors that can interfere with sleep: work, stress, responsibilities, illness, and other factors. Insufficient sleep can lead to chronic health issues, such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes, safety issues if we are operating vehicles or machinery, or can cause mental deficiencies in learning, working and communicating. If you are looking to improve your overall health, try these 10 ways to help achieve a better night’s sleep: 1.  Keep a Consistent Sleep Schedule To achieve this goal, set a bedtime that is early enough for you to get eight hours of sleep, the recommended amount of sleep for a healthy adult. Do not go to bed unless you are tired.  Try to wake up the same time every day, even on weekends and vacations. Limit any daytime naps to 30 minutes, and avoid napping late in the day, as this can disrupt sleep. Consistency

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Ways to Treat Chronic Pain Without Surgery So You Can Sleep

According to the American Academy of Pain Management, 1.5 billion people worldwide are suffering from some form of chronic pain. That is a great number of people having to go about their daily lives with chronic pain and not being able to function 100%. If you have chronic pain that is hard to relieve, or you’re waiting to have surgery, it can be really tough to live with.  If you are suffering with some form of chronic pain, then you might feel like the best thing for you to do is to take it easy and to lay in bed, rest, relax, and not do anything that could cause more pain. However, there is research that shows that moving your body can actually be one of the best things that you can do for some chronic pain relief. What Is Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is a persistent type of pain, which lasts more than 12 weeks, despite any treatments or medication to end the pain. Most chronic pain comes from pain with backaches, arthritis, and headaches. Chronic pain can impact your joints, bones, and your muscles. It can also feel like it is all over your body, rather than just

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Surprising Health Benefits of Sleep

Sleep plays one of the most important roles our lives. In order to live a healthy and fulfilled lifestyle it is vital to get enough sleep each day to protect your body and mind. Unfortunately, it is easy to forget the importance of sleep. Everyone is so busy working full time jobs, raising children, and more, that there has become a modern-day misconception that sleep isn’t important as the other things we have to do, so not enough time is set aside for a healthy amount of sleep. But it is sleep that is the pivotal element to health and high-performance, so we can perform all our daily tasks. Your Body Repairs and Restores Overnight The average sleep recommendation for an adult is 7 to 9 hours per evening. According to a study, nearly two thirds of all adults in the United States were not getting enough sleep. Many people believe that they can function well with six hours of sleep or less, but that simply isn’t the case. As human beings, our brains are very tuned in, but will ignore signs of sleep deprivation and fatigue. This means that many of us are getting insufficient amounts of sleep, but

CONTINUE READING »

How Set Yourself Up For The Best Sleep Possible

If we’re going to be at our best, then it’s important that we are getting a good night’s sleep. If we are well-rested, then it’s much easier to tackle the day head-on; if we have a night of tossing and turning, then we could be sluggish the entire day that follows. If you’re one of those people that suffer with their sleeping habits, then it’s important to make some changes. Below, we take a look at a few essential tips and hints that’ll have you sleeping better than ever. The Right Lighting When we think of lighting in relation to sleep, we usually think of the bedroom, and how bright it is. While it’s important to make your bedroom dark enough to sleep in, it’s not the only light-matter that’ll affect your sleeping routine. You also need to get natural light into your system. Why? It’s all because of your circadian rhythm, which tells your body when to be awake and when to fall asleep. If you don’t get any natural light in the morning, your body’s circadian rhythm won’t reset. So, go for a short walk in the morning; even 5 minutes is fine. If you don’t live in

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