Tips to Improve Sleep: Part II

To follow up on my last article, if you are having trouble sleeping at night- it is best to evaluate what you may doing wrong and how to better your sleep with sleep tips. While air beds and number bed can work wonders for your comfort level at night, if you are engaging in activities that are prone to keep you awake at night, you can’t fully enjoy the technology and comfort that adjustable beds offer. Here are some additional tips on how to improve your sleep at night:

1.       Make Exercise a Priority

Exercising daily or weekly and on a set schedule will help increase your energy during the day. In turn, this will help you regulate your sleep patterns at night and ensure you are ready for bed when it’s time. Additionally, making a point to exercise regularly will improve your mood during the day and help eliminate the daily sleepiness and weariness from not getting a good night of rest. 

2.       Hide the Clock

It has been found that looking at your clock throughout the night will keep you from getting good sleep. Doing this builds anxiety and you lose the ability to become calm and enter into a good sleep state again. If you relocate your clock away from your adjustable bed to a place where you can still use it but can’t see it throughout the night, you will see your sleep improve drastically. 

3.       Eliminate Tobacco

Tobacco products are made with nicotine which is a stimulant. Having tobacco during the day, and ESPECIALLY before getting into adjustable air beds to sleep at night, will inhibit your sleeping. Try to avoid using any tobacco products to ensure you can sleep better each night.

Change Your Mattress. Health Benefits Two Fold.

Why do you still keep that old mattress? Studies show that a mattress over 3 years old can have negative side effects to your health including: allergies, back pain, poor circulation, increased weight gain, insomnia. Old mattresses lead to dust mites that create allergic reactions in two ways. Dust mites eat dead skin cells and produce a waste product that is basically the same thing as droppings. These dropping / aka urine and feces breed microscopic bacteria, mold, and viruses that can effect your health.

A sagging mattress leads to poor spinal position and back pain. If you have ever slept on a couch you know what I'm talking about. Sleeping on any surface that is not flat and comforting leads to discomfort the entire time you sleep and carries over to your waking or day light hours. Your body will naturally start to compensate for a lack of comfort by tightening muscles for the duration of your sleep. These muscles are never relaxing causing sleep apnea, muscular fibromyalgia, and back pain. You need to position your back and spine in a straight relaxing position.

As your back pain increases and your muscles tighten to compensate from your poor mattress, you will decrease your blood circulation which is the main way your body heals itself. Poor circulation leads to strokes, heart attacks, increased weight gain, and the ability to heal oneself.

Insomnia is caused by many characteristics. Use a good mattress to quiet your mind and your body. If the mind can relax it can help fight off insomnia. If you have a poor mattress visit the Sleep Number Bed site.If you need the Best Mattress or a mattress to select comfort you have found a site that is a viable source to help you sleep better and get to optimal health.