Good quality sleep is directly associated with your productivity at work. Often, people tend to overwork sacrificing their sleep. If you don’t take rest properly, your mental and physical capacity is going to be hampered by it. It also shortens the attention span making things difficult for us. You feel a lack of motivation and energy all day long.
Stress becomes a big hurdle in our path to sound sleep. Let’s discuss the common mistakes people make before during and after sleep. You may not be realizing them but you are doing it unconsciously.
1. Snooze button frequency:
It happens with almost everyone that they wake up to the alarm sound and put the alarm clock in snooze mode. In reality, the snooze button is the enemy. When you go back to sleep again for 10 minutes, pressing the snooze buttons, you are ruining your sleeping cycle. Even waking up to the alarm clock harshly is an enemy of health.
2. Watching TV or mobile screen before sleep:
It also has happened to many of you that you fell asleep on the sofa or couch. This is a very common mistake that people make. Watching TV while in bed encourages us to stay up, but it hampers our sleeping habits. It is unhealthy for your eyes, and muscles in your neck. You must avoid having a TV in your bedroom. A bedroom is meant to be for your sleep.
3. Having too much light on while sleeping:
Our body requires darkness to create the sleep hormone melatonin while sleeping. It helps to prepare our bodies for a better sleep cycle. When you watch TV before sleep or keep too many lights on while sleeping, it hampers your sleep. Consequently, it damages our productivity.
4. Eating sugar substances before sleep:
Refined sugar can disrupt the balance of hormones in our bodies. We must avoid having excessive sugar. However, before sleep, you must refrain from sugar, as it can make your sleep shallow and wake you up in the middle of your sleeping cycle. Shallow sleep or lack of sleep can be the leading reason for your less productivity. If you have cravings before bed, eat yogurts, milk or eggs, and other substances for raising the melatonin hormone.
5. Drinking alcohol before bed:
People find it stressful bursting to have alcohol just before bed. This again disrupts your sleeping cycle by misbalancing the hormone levels. You must change your habit of drinking alcohol before sleep. You can replace it with herbal tea. It will help you to sleep better at night by producing more amount of melatonin.
6. Anxious before sleep:
You might have felt in your life that before sleep you suddenly become anxious. This makes you unable to sleep. It is a serious concern as it really can turn into something big. To control your anxiety, you can do meditation. Meditation helps you to get relieved from anxiety. You can download some meditation music and heal your mind from stress just before sleep.
7. Having irregular sleeping time:
Most people don’t know what their sleeping time is. Irregular sleeping time confuses your body and mind. Disorganized sleeping time gives you shallow sleep, insomnia, and fatigue. In your busy schedule, you sometimes can’t afford to sleep at your preferred time. But, you must follow a proper sleeping time to not confuse your system.
8. Lie in bed when you can’t sleep:
When you can’t sleep, it is better you try to sleep lying on your bed. When you stay in the relaxed zone, the cortical level starts dropping removing your anxiety. When you are less anxious, your sleep gets better.
