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How To Have a Good Night

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No Alarms

When the alarm starts blaring in the morning you wake up with your body inundated with cortisone causing the flight or fight response. So your feet didn’t even touch the floor and you’re already stressed.

You can begin by forsaking the snooze button, and then in time, you’ll wake up on your own. It’s recommended to pause for a couple of seconds, to find your bearings before getting out of bed.

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Removing Blue light from Electronic Devices

One of the best ways to spend more quality time with your partner at night is to ditch electronics after a certain time each day altogether.

The least you can do, if you “wind-down” using electronic devices at night is to install an app that tints the colour of your screen in sync with the ...

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Sleeping Instead Of Sugar Or Caffeine

When you’re suffering from a poor night of sleep you go after sweets, doughnuts with all the various toppings, or that precious mug of coffee (you don’t even care that’s meant to be in a little fancy cup, you need your fix in triple dose right now) and maybe a double latte later.

And ther...

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Dreams As Guidance

Never underestimate the power of dreams. Waking up in the middle of the night from one is not ideal. So why not develop a habit of having a notebook and pen on your nightstand to write them down? Don’t turn on the lights. It’ll be easier to recall the details.

If you don’t wake up during ...

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Spend Your Discretionary Time Wisely

Even if we think we don’t have it, we actually do. The thing is, for example, to put sleep above watching the latest episode of your favorite series.

Getting your priorities straight and valuing your shut-eye time is adamant in your quest for a [healthy lifestyle.

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Lavender And Deep Sleep

Dioscorides, a physician from ancient Greece, wrote about the tranquilizing properties of lavender at the beginning of the first century.

It was widely used in ancient Greece and Roman baths to help guests relax.

Modern science has already confirmed the powers of lavender as well. It ...

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Eliminate Sleep As a Punishment

Children are told off by being sent to bed early. So it’s no wonder that from a young age sleep is associated with something we don’t want to ‘engage’ with. It becomes the enemy of fun and games.

But while we sleep, our brain and body wash away the toxins accumulated during the day. Kids ...

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The Madness Of Sleep Deprivation

The Madness Of Sleep Deprivation

Over 30% of Americans get less than 7 hours of sleep each night, and in a lot of industries (consulting, investment banking) a lack of sleep is even considered cool and productive.

Yet, across the board, more sleep leads to better results. For young kids in school, for students in...

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Meditation

You can use technology to access tools for meditation or to help you relax. Forgetting the daily stresses and anxiety is an important part of a good night’s sleep.

And meditation can help you with that. There are many meditation guides available online, like Louise Hay’s videos that can be ...

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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

It is our collective delusion that overwork and burnout is the price we pay for success.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

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Sleeping Is Ideal With A Partner

The benefits of sleeping right don’t stop at productivity, but also extend to your relationship. A 2014 study among 1,000 people found that couples are happier if they:

  • Sleep next to each other.
  • Have body contact while being asleep.

But it doesn’t just matter whethe...

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an efficient and natural way to improve your sleep. People have used it for centuries, but now modern medicine already confirms its effectiveness.

Researchers at Emory University conducted research on ancient sleep studies and found that about 93% of research confirms that ac...

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Be Your Own Cheerleader

Changing your sleep habits can be a challenging process. Still, you need to commit, to take it day by day, cheer yourself for every victory and be indulgent when you fall off the wagon.

It will take time to redesign your sleeping patterns through a trial and error process. Our lives are u...

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No Electronic Devices Before Bed

Take your iPhone, laptop, and iPad out of the bedroom at least half an hour before you put your head on the pillow.

The blue light that these indispensable devices emit is causing alertness in your brain, translating into waking up in the middle of the night or staring tens of minutes at ...

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"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book."

It turns out that nothing is more critical to our health, happiness, and productivity than having a good night’s sleep, with adequate quality and time.

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Get creative with your practice

Sometimes your task is so mundane and so far away from being what is normally considered a skill that it’s hard to figure out how to practice it at all; so you have to get creative.

For example, to wake up early without hitting snooze, you should practice waking up. During the day...

Hitting the snooze button

No matter how tired you think you are when your alarm clock goes off, force yourself out of bed if you want to have a productive morning.

When you hit the snooze button and fall back asleep, you lose the alertness you'd get by respecting your sleep cycles and end up waking up later, ...

1. Take some distance from your alarm

1. Take some distance from your alarm

We all know how good the morning sleep is, but we also know the many times we wished to get up earlier so we can have more time.

When you set your alarm before bed, put it on the other side of the bedroom/room.

This will make you stand up, take a few ...

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