Sleep For Your Life – STP022

Some of the stuff in there is:

1. What can happen if you don’t get enough sleep

2. There’s a really interesting animation – by the Ted team here

3. Why only a few people can survive on low levels of sleep

4. The risks you expose yourself to even after only being awake for 18 hours

5. National Geographic’s experiment – This is your brain on no sleep

6. How many people die in sleep related crashes each year – the numbers are astonishing

7. Further reading from Forbes here 

8. The health consequences of missing out on just an hour’s sleep a night

9. The Telegraph Article

10. 5 definite benefits from getting enough sleep:

11. You’re better able to focus and learn

12. You feel happier

13. You’re more productive

14. You’re less hungry

15. You won’t get sick as often

16. The Sleep.Org article is here

17. What happens when we sleep?

18. The sleep cycles:

19. Non-REM sleep – Four stages

20. REM sleep

21. You can read more detail on the cycles – in this BBC Science Article

22. How sleep literally washes our brains!

23. Article from the National Institute of Health in the US on sleep

24. The solutions to getting more sleep in today’s busy world:

25. Routine – Establish a wind-down routine to include turning your device off an hour before bedtime, an end of day journal, warmth bath, read a relaxing book. Here’s a routine from the Huffington Post

26. Mindfulness, yoga or relaxation techniques – Any of these can calm your mind more generally.

27. Here’s a link to find out about the headspace app

28. This one is about 10% Happier

29. This podcast called ‘Sleep with me’ may help you to sleep also

30. Caffeine curfew – Did you know that caffeine has a half life of 6 hours? Here is some reading. Stopping caffeine at 1 or 2pm will definitely help

31. Invest in good quality sleeping stuff bed, mattress, pillows, pyjamas, cassettes you can put a small one into…

32. Exercise – This article explains why a regular exercise routine can help you sleep

33. Ditch the devices – The blue light can trick your body into thinking it should be awake, and the buzzers and beeps (or even the thought of them going off) can delay the onset of sleep.

34. Apps – There’s loads out there to help you manage the supportive habits you want to develop. Here’s the link back to our episode where we featured them.

35. Further reading:  Here are two more articles which formed our source and make for useful further reading:

36. The Daily Telegraph – 25 Tips To Help You Sleep Better

37. Sleep.Org – 7 Habits Keeping You Awake

As always, we’re really grateful for your help in supporting this podcast. To do this you can:

1. Rate or subscribe at i-tunes by going here – i-tunes

2. Contact us on Twitter – we are @sharppodcast here

3. Connect with us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/sharppodcast/

4. Share with at us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sharppodcast/

5. Post comments on the website. This link will take you to home page, and then you can go onto the episode you’d like to comment on here

Thanks EVER SO MUCH for listening. If we help you to BE BETTER at what you do, then it’s all been worth it!

 The amazing photograph we’ve used this week is by the artist Abdou Moussaoui. You can see more of his work here, here’s really fab… Pixabay

https://media.blubrry.com/sharppodcast/p/content.blubrry.com/sharppodcast/Sleep_For_Your_Life-STP022.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:16 — 29.4MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More

#habits #routines #podcast #bebetter #meditation #app #development #resolutions #better #productivity #relax #selfimprovement