A GOOD NIGHT SLEEP

Our good health will depend in our sleep pattern. Our sleep behavior is important to be active in our everyday activities. Lack of sleep can sometimes affect the mind to function well. We are slow in our responses because we are sleepy as we did not sleep well at night. It became a problem to some people for being insomniac. The alertness was gone, the body was tired, the reaction time was very slow.

It was recommended that a good night sleep should be at least 8 hours to put the body to rest properly. Some useful tips you can use to ensure that a good night sleep is possible for you.

You have to stick to your schedule of what particular hour you have to go to bed. Don't take your rest late. This is to establish a sleep pattern so that your schedule is not bothered.

A light dinner 2 hours before you sleep is highly advisable. No need to have a full stomach, it can only affect your sleep pattern.

Don't drink too much water or any other liquids like juice before going to bed. It can hamper your sleep by going to the rest room many times in the night.

Heartburn can cause you sleepless due to abdominal complaints like gas accumulation or bloating of stomach arising from eating fatty and spicy foods.

One way to avoid before going to bed is eating a midnight snacks. If you can't control it because it is already your habit or you are hungry, then what you will do is to eat food that can induce you to sleep, bread or cereal will do.

Avoid taking stimulants that keep you awake like caffeine. Don't take coffee at night before sleeping as it can trigger for you to delay your sleep pattern.

Doing exercise in the late afternoon is good. It can enhance your body to a deep slumber. It is also important that your room has slightly cool environment. Feeling too much warm at night can wake you up and have a hard time going back to sleep. It is needed to have a well-ventilated place so that fresh air can enter inside absorbing heat around the room.

Limit your daytime sleep. Too much sleeping during the day can affect your established pattern and don't feel sleepy.

A quiet environment can induce you to sleep. Any noise around the room can interfere you. Turn-off anything you have in your room that can affect your good night sleep.

Taking light shower bath at night feels you relax to ease your strained muscles. Having an emotional, physical, and financial problems are causes that you are awake and don't want to sleep. Find a way to resolve this problem as early as possible.

Too much sleepless night brings a toll in your health. Your energy was exhausted, your good performance in your work was affected, your mental capacity to think properly was hampered.

If you have a good night sleep, you feel refresh in your waking hours. You become energetic doing your everyday function. You have mental alertness to respond to necessity.

Take all your effort to sleep well. It is your only chance to keep your body healthy.