Have you ever wondered what your sleep position says about you? It may come as a surprise, but sleep researchers have been studying sleep positions for years and have found a correlation between sleep position and personality.
Category Archives: Sleep Advice
Sleep Better to Feel Better
Monday 16th May marks the beginning of Mental Health Week.
According to the Mental Health Foundation: ‘Poor sleep is linked to physical problems such as a weakened immune system and mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.’
We spend a third of our life in bed, so why compromise on the cost of a good night’s sleep?
7 Stress Busting Tips to Help You Sleep
Not all stress is bad, right?
You know the drill. It’s Sunday evening, you’re lying in bed just about to nod off when, pop!, you’ve just joined the wide awake club.
Whether it’s work, family, financial or health worries, all these stressful thoughts can make it difficult to fall asleep, and even stay asleep!
If stress is really that bad for our sleep, what can we do to make it better?
5 Tips to Better Teen Sleep
Is your teen sleep deprived?
With exams just around the corner, young people up and down the country are risking peak performance by losing out on essential sleep.
Whether it’s due to pulling all-nighters for exam revision or having too much screen time, sleep loss can have a significant impact on young people’s health, behaviour, mood, concentration, memory and, ultimately, performance at school.
We look at the effects of not getting enough shut-eye and how best to get our teenagers to sleep more.
Three Steps to a Better Night’s Sleep
Research shows that more and more of us are not getting enough sleep. In fact, 33% of us get by on less than 6 hours slumber a night!
Given that a lack of sleep can cause problems with our mental and physical health, it’s worth establishing a few new ground rules for a better night’s sleep. Continue reading
National Bed Month
As Spring approaches The Sleep Council, through its Bed Month campaign, reminds us that it might be time to be thinking about giving grotty old mattresses their marching orders – and invest in a better night’s sleep with a comfortable new bed.
Considering we spend a third of our life in bed, getting a good night’s sleep is essential to our health, well-being and productivity. Sleeping on the the right mattress ensures that we wake up refreshed.
The average lifespan of a mattress is around 7 years so it’s worth spending as much as you can afford to get a good quality, comfortable bed.
How Much Sleep Do We need?
The National Sleep Foundation has produced new guidelines on how much sleep we need throughout our life. Along with a multi-disciplinary expert panel, the NSF revised the recommended sleep ranges for all six children and teen age groups.
Even though sleep patterns are individual, ie there’s no magic number, the new NSF guidelines show us the amount of time a person should sleep, according to their age.
Out With The Old And In With The New…Bed!
The New Year signifies a time of change and transformation, offering us the chance to discard those things that hold us back.
For many the New Year encourages us to kick bad habits and establish new routines, from getting fit, eating healthier, to getting more and better sleep.
Most adults need between six and nine hours of sleep every night and yet almost two-thirds of us suffer from sleep problems.
“Buy the right bed and you could be buying into night after night of quality sleep,” says Lisa Artis of The Sleep Council. “Anyone who has ever slept in a really comfortable or really dreadful old bed will know how it can affect the quality of sleep.”
If you know you need a new bed, but are unsure what you want or what suits you best, check out The Sleep Council’s guide to the questions you should be asking yourself… Continue reading
Fall Back…to Sleep!
As the evenings draw in and the mornings become increasingly darker, autumn marks the beginning of our shorter days. And with the clocks going back this weekend, Sunday 26th October, it’ll not be too long before we’re waking up in the dark, and travelling home in the dark too.
One consolation in all this gloomy nighttime talk of course is that precious extra hour we’ll get in bed. Yes, it’s the one time in the year when we don’t need an excuse to have a lie-in. But did you know that that extra 60 minutes of slumber is not just a guilty pleasure but it is actually good for you?
Sleeptember Stress Busters
With the launch of Sleeptember the Sleep Council’s latest research found that 90% of people admit to suffering from some form of stress in their lives, with almost two out of five saying they are regularly, frequently or constantly stressed.
In Northern Ireland 88% of people say they suffer sleep problems when stressed (UK Highest) and 76% have suffered from a sleep disorder. A further 46% say they regularly, frequently or always are stressed.
With millions of people caught in a vicious cycle of stress and sleepless nights the month of September has been identified by health professionals as being one of the most stressful months for many.
