Tiredness and Sleep
Waking up Easily and Feeling Great every Morning...
I think that everybody knows poor sleep is a possible cause of tiredness. But do you know what exactly ‘poor sleep’ means? Is all you have to do sleep more and everything will be OK? Or are there other things that you can do?...
On this page you will find answers to all these questions and more. Most importantly, you will learn how to improve your sleep. After raising the quality of your sleep, you will have more energy in the morning as well as during the day. Best of all, you can achieve this without spending more time in bed. But before we begin, here’s the first question you should ask yourself…
Am I Sleep Deprived?
To find out if you’re sleep deprived, answer the following questions:
- Do you need an alarm clock to wake you up in the morning?
- Do you feel tired in the mornings and hate getting out of bed?
- Do you hit the snooze button again and again… until you absolutely must get up?
- Are you often irritable and cranky?
- Do you feel drowsy when reading, sitting behind a computer, or driving?
- Do you fall asleep while watching TV?
- Are you looking forward to weekends, because you know you will get more sleep?
- Do you have a hard time staying concentrated and focused on your work for long periods of time?
- Do you believe that you wouldn’t be able to function properly without your morning cup of coffee?
If you answered ‘yes’ to at least 2 of the above questions then you’re probably not getting all the sleep that you need. If that’s the case, make sure you read this page carefully – don’t worry, we won’t simply tell you to get more sleep.
Sleeping More or Sleeping Better - the Quality Vs. the Quantity of Sleep
A lot of people who are sleep deprived are blaming it all on quantity of sleep. They believe that everything would be OK if only they’d get a little more sleep. In some cases they are absolutely right. But not always…
What you should understand is that it’s not how much sleep you’re getting that’s important. It’s how much quality sleep you get. Let me show you what I mean…
If you sleep for 12 hours per night, but your sleep is of poor quality, you will feel tired.
If you sleep for just 2 hours per night, you will feel tired, regardless of the quality of your sleep.
If you’re Sleep Deprived, here are
the 3 Things You Can Do…
- Sleep more,
- Raise the quality of your sleep,
- Sleep accordingly to your unique sleep cycles (this may even enable you to sleep less than before)
Since you don’t need somebody to tell you how to sleep more, we will concentrate on raising the quality of sleep and on using you sleep cycles to overcome sleep deprivation. Believe me, improving the quality of your sleep is usually much more important than getting more sleep.