subject: Tackle Stress For A Deep Stress [print this page] How do you deal with stress? Eat a lot of chocolate or cookies? Do not have meals? Refill your wineglass a couple of times after dinner? All of these stress reactions, in fact, make staying sleep more hard. Those couples who got pets had significantly lower heart rates and blood pressure as they exposed to stressors than the couples who did not have pets.
Get start to orient your body to afternoon naps with a 20-minutes of peace relaxation that occurs at the same time every day. If your office get a sofa, all the better, but you could make a temporary nap place with one chair and one improvised ottoman. You might want to have a pillow and an alarm clock at work for nap time. Some cities even have sleeping pod franchise where you can rent a comfortable sleeping chair for 20 minutes for less than 15 dollors. But what about your work? If you can have 20 minutes to run to a caf, you can have 20 minutes to get a nap.Recognize yourself. How do you deal with stress? Eat a lot of chocolate or cookies? Do not have meals? Have a couple of glasses of wine after dinner? All of these classic stress responses actually make falling asleep more difficult. But if you can realize that you are one of those who responds to stress in a way that will prevent you sleep, plan ahead of time how you are going to handle something you just know is going to raise your stress level.
If you understand the big year-end sales conference will come up the next week and you have got some pretty lofty aims to achieve, for instance, go to bed an hour early every night this week, which can give your body a biochemical boost of stress-proofing growth hormone to ride into this week.
If you know you will go to see your ex when he drops off your daughter Saturday evening, take time out and have a meditation for 20 minutes before he is supposed to arrive.
Or you are planning to take part in a huge wedding and you recognize that staying with a lot of people can raise your stress level, you need to seek a quiet spot at the gathering --- out in your car, indoors in an bathroom or outdoor under a tree, where you could take a deep breath, keep your eyes closed for 10 minutes, and enjoy the quiet and peace of being alone.
See the comedy central. If you like unwind in front of the TV every night, watch one of the channels that show several laughs. Researchers asked 16 persons to watch a funny videotape while the researchers measured many biochemical related to stress. The result? When the study participants watched the tape, their levels of stress hormones dropped obviously and levels of the antistress growth hormone rose 87 percent.
Researchers evaluated the heart health of 240 couples, half of them owned a pet. Those couples who got pets had significantly lower heart rates and blood pressure as they exposed to stressors than the couples who did not have pets. It is a sign that stress is impossibly to be influencing their sleep.
