There are so many good reasons to exercise – heart health, weight control, ability to compete with others. Take your pick, there is usually a reason that appeals to you. However, the best reason of all to exercise is that it can improve the quality of your sleep.
How much time do you spend in your bedroom when you are not sleeping? What are you doing there? Did you know that all the non-sleeping activities in your bedroom could be making your sleeplessness worse?
How we think about sleep can play an important role in how we deal with sleep difficulties.
For this reason, an essential part of your sleep treatment involves identifying your thoughts about sleep that tend to make sleeping more difficult and replacing these thoughts with more helpful thinking.
Pay attention to your thinking about sleep and consider alternatives, and you will probably notice two common misconceptions that you need to address before you are going to start sleeping well:
The process of sleep is one that our bodies instinctively know how to do. It is a critical and regular element of how our bodies function. However, when insomnia strikes, it is useful to get a better understanding of how our sleep cycle actually works – so that we can reset it! Read more »
Tags: insomnia, Insomnia Help
I have always found that Circadian Rhythms sounds either like a great name for band or something to with insects… I was wrong on both counts. Infact Circadian Rythms (meaning “about a day”) is commonly referred to as the biologic closk and is the daily cycle of life, including sleeping and waking.
Hundreds of bodily functions follow biologic clocks, but sleeping and waking are the most prominent circadian rhythms. Read more »
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