It can be difficult to get back to sleep after awakening during the night as you become too anxious to enjoy dreamland once again. More frustration arises as you stare at the clock watching your precious sleep time drift away. For the occasional bout of insomnia that we all get at times, try these tips […]
Consider your daily schedule, do you make the effort to fall asleep and wake up at the same time every day? According to many sleep experts and researchers, the timing of your sleep is just as important as collecting 7-9 hours of shut-eye every night of the week. According to The Huffington Post, here’s how […]
As much as we’d like it to be, enjoying high quality sleep isn’t as simple as climbing under the covers and closing our eyes at bedtime. Our daily activities, including our diet, environment and emotions have a huge impact on snooze, especially right before we hit the hay. If you haven’t been sleeping well lately, […]
Caffeine can easily be named America’s favorite drug, but its negative effects on sleep are often overlooked by many. This commonly used stimulant is everywhere, including coffee, soda, energy drinks, green tea, chocolate and even some over-the-counter medications. Recently, NBC News reported that adults in the U.S. are only sleeping on average 6 hours and […]
What are your reasons for making sleep a priority in your life? You may want to add another reason to your list thanks to the frightening results of a new study published this month in the journal Neurology. Lead researcher Claire E. Sexton, DPhil with the University of Oxford and her team found that while our brains naturally […]
Over across the ocean, sleep may become more of a priority in hospitals. If you have spent a night or more in the hospital, I’m sure you can recall how noisy it can get, making it a difficult place to get much needed rest. Hospitals are a place people go to get better, yet as […]
