Are We Getting Enough Sleep?

Brian Yalung — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:26:30 +0000

Sleep is important and a necessity for us to go on living healthy lives. There is a trend that is quite funny. During our toddler years, we find ourselves sleeping most of the time. We see this when we have our own kids who are always around us. On the other hand, as we get older, tendency is we slowly decrease the number of hours of sleep due to a number of reasons such as:

Stress
Excessive Thinking
Time Management from Work or Studies
Social Life
Searching for the Right Comfort

If you will summarize it, it would seem that when we are in our prime years, we tend to overwork and want to take on the whole world as we see it. We are usually hyperactive that we forget the usual 6 to 8 hours of sleep. But when we near the retiring age, somewhere between 25 and above, we find ourselves going back to sleeping longer hours. This is because our bodies are slowly getting older and the organs we have are not as metabolized during our active years.

Here is a study you can read on: Study Shows U.S. Adults Not Getting Enough Sleep

Time Management and Sleep

Brian Yalung — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:05:52 +0000

Who knows what time it is in your region? For all you know, upon reading this, you should be in bed. But rather than laying down, you find yourself exploring the web for anything that may be of interest to you. Sometimes, it is a way of making you sleepy.

After a hyperactive day, chances are you may be wondering of the things that had transpired. It could be about work, about a special person or something about family. Anything can keep you up thinking or even get your working.

But sleep is something you really cannot force on yourself. There is the thing called time management to which our body clocks work on. Foregoing them may prove to be risky for health reasons. Also, whatever enthusiasm you have in your body may soon go away. It is still best to keep emotions in check and get back to your senses.

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Are We Getting Enough Sleep?

Time Management and Sleep