In society today, it’s hard to not advance in any type of way without being aware of your surroundings and being able to respond rapidly. One must have his wit about him at all times. To be at your best, you have to sleep correctly. To say you need less sleep then a normal person, or not need to work out is absurd. Everyone needs sleep, and everyone needs physical activity. We’ll just talk about sleep today.

Circadian Rhythm

Pick a time you want to go to sleep and wake up every day. Say eleven PM. Sounds reasonable no? Now pick you wake up time. Let’s say Six AM. That time probably sounds horrible to most people. Yet that gives you seven hours of sleep. It’s been proven in studies that people who have six to seven hours of sleep actually live longer. That’s probably because they wake up early to do a monstrous run or workout. Now if you don’t normally do this, it’s best to force yourself to do it for a minimum of a few weeks to up to three months. Once you have this rhythm down, your body will naturally wake up and feel tired at these times. You might have a time already set, if you do, make sure it’s at least six hours.

Having trouble Falling

Some of us have insomnia, or have trouble falling asleep. There are different things people do to help fall asleep. They read a book, they drink wine, they take Ambien. Granted that these all work, there are some occasions where they give you less sleep for REM. You might be in bed for eight hours, but you could have received only a few hours only to awaken at the beginning of the night. There’s one thing we must remember about sleeping that most people fail to take into account. We’re outdated. When we’re stimulating our minds with television or being on the internet, or playing video games, our minds are on overdrive. Trying to sleep immediately after such a task will keep us awake for hours. Try and keep your brain activity to a minimum starting a few hours before you’re going to sleep

Awakening is Equal to Death

Waking up for most of us is our hardest task for the day. Having a circadian rhythm & clock should help solve this. If you are resetting your clock, you may have trouble waking up at an earlier time. The first thing I recommend is turning on lights and aiming them directly at your eyes for a few moments right when waking up. Even with your eyes closed, the sensation of light will tell the mind that it is morning and time to be awake.

Mental Wake Up

Your mind is also something that needs to be tuned in the morning. Having simple things like different scents like candles, or different types of shampoos will help wake up the mind through the senses of smell. For myself, I have an application on my phone that has me solving twenty to one hundred math problems. Right when I wake up, I look at the blinding light my phone gives off, do some math problems which causes me to be awake in less than five minutes. As much as my pillow argues, I have the sleep thing under control.

GwR