Tweet

Is Insomnia Making Your Life Miserable?

Guest post by: Dr. Jack Singer

Article Overview: Insomnia can be a miserable ailment and can exacerbate other illnesses and make chronic pain worse. Insomnia can be caused by a multitude of issues from increased stress, obesity, pain, medications, caffeine, nicotine, depression, unresolved anxiety, a change in work hours or shifts, marital and family strife or discord, sleep apnea. or even a spouse or partner who keeps you awake with their snoring. Not getting enough proper sleep can affect us physically, mentally and emotionally. It can also contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.

Is Insomnia Making Your Life Miserable?

Do you have difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep? Is non-refreshing sleep plaguing you? Insomnia can be a miserable ailment and can exacerbate other illnesses and make chronic pain worse. Insomnia can be caused by a multitude of issues from increased stress, obesity, pain, medications, caffeine, nicotine, depression, unresolved anxiety, a change in work hours or shifts, marital and family strife or discord, sleep apnea. or even a spouse or partner who keeps you awake with their snoring.

Not getting enough proper sleep can affect us physically, mentally and emotionally. It can also contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.

How much sleep you require depends on your age. Children typically need more sleep than adults and seniors often sleep fewer hours at night, but may take catnaps during the day. The key to determining how much sleep you need is to poll yourself each morning to see how rested you feel. If you are groggy and unable to feel alert until later in the morning, you very likely need more quality sleep.

Consider keeping a sleep diary, much as you would a diet diary if you are in the process of losing weight. Head on over to the dollar store and purchase a composition notebook or a small notepad and place it on the table by your bed. By daily recording what time you go to bed, how long it takes for you to fall asleep, how many times you awaken during the night and the duration of these wakeful periods you will be more able to determine how much sleep you are actually getting. Be sure to note in your diary each morning how rested, or not rested you feel. This will be helpful information for your physician.

Additionally, it will be helpful for you to note in your sleep diary if you are worried about something when you find that you can't sleep. By tracking what you are worried about you can determine what treatment may be appropriate for you. People who go to bed worrying about the events of the day or what they anticipate to be unresolved issues they will have to face tomorrow, suffer from early morning awakening (usually around 2 or 3 AM). The treatment here requires understanding your internal dialogue and correcting it.

By developing a regular bedtime routine, you may find yourself well on the way to curing what ails you. It is important to establish routine whereby you go to bed at the same time each evening and awaken at the same time each morning. And yes, this goes for weekends and days off as well. Sorry about that!

Taking a hot or warm bath before bedtime and drinking a warm decaffeinated drink may also be helpful. As your body cools, it automatically becomes sleepy. Getting plenty of exercise also helps sleeping habits because it removes clutter and stress from the mind.

If you have a television in your bedroom, turn it off or remove it altogether. Your bedroom should be a place for sleep and your mind needs to recognize that when you enter your bedroom that you are preparing for sleep.

Related Articles
  You're Getting Sleepy... Sleepy...
  Trying to Control Makes Us Miserable
  Got Zzzz's? Advanced Brain Training for Better Sleep.
  Ease Your Anxiety the Natural Way
  Top Home Based Business: Finding Your Passion
  How to Overcome Insomnia - The Article Guaranteed to Put You to Sleep!
  Paradise is a State of Mind
  How do I get past the feeling of being stuck in life or work?
  A Life of Choice
  Risky Business: Put Your Own Needs First
  Are You Persevering or Enduring
  CieAura Review - Loser Or Legit MLM Network Marketing Business?
  Living a Life of Balance and Happiness is at Least AS Important As Financial Goals
  Are You a Goal Watcher, Goal Talker, or Goal ACHIEVER?
  Are you standing out or blending in?
  Groundhog Day
  Ten Warning Signs - Time to Look for a New Job
  Giving Up: Have You Given Up on Yourself?
  Unwind After Work
  Will You Choose to "Wake Up!" to Your Life?

Article Tags: ailment, disease, insomnia, sleep, stress
Referred by: http://virtualassistantindustry.com/



Related Forum Posts
Re: Marketing potential of virtual worlds - Making such amounts, are they for real? I mean, have heard about Second Life, but can one make real money there?
The Second Life Platform - Greetings! I'm not sure how many of you have heard of or are sensitive to Second Life and its related entities. However, Second Life is a fantastic platform to mimmick real life business operations in a real currency based economy. There are plenty of successful stories for creative individuals, but I'd highly suggest doing your research and appreciating Second Life for what it is, and what it isn't.
good rest tips - I generally can get good sleep most nights. As much as I don't like developing predictable routines, I have to say that getting to bed same time each night helps a bit. Insomnia seems to be affecting a lot of people these days. Plenty of exercise the day before does wonders for your sleep... If stress is the culprit, then I suggest listening to relaxing music before going to bed, learning meditation, and finding other ways to calm the busyness of the mind.
Making Money in 2011 - Hello forum members! As we draw closer to the new year I thought it would be appropriate to change the title of our forum category "Making Money in 2010" to "Making Money in 2011" - I'm looking forward to some interesting discussions and wish everyone a prosperous New Year!
Re: The Second Life Platform - [quote="JBunion":fhe23fsu]Greetings! I'm not sure how many of you have heard of or are sensitive to Second Life and its related entities. However, Second Life is a fantastic platform to mimmick real life business operations in a real currency based economy. There are plenty of successful stories for creative individuals, but I'd highly suggest doing your research and appreciating Second Life for what it is, and what it isn't.[/quote:fhe23fsu] Hi JBunion, I've heard about the site. So are you currently a member? And more importantly, have you tried to open a store front in that virtual world?


Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.

Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

Four Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Blog

Join Conversations Politely, Part 1

How to sell a business

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.