Monitor Your Sleeping Hours
Sleep is such an important part of our lives that we spend approximately 1/3rd of our lives sleeping. It is an integral part of our existence, and it is only when we are unable to sleep well, or do not get enough time to sleep, that we realize how much of our well-being depends on it.
Sleep deprivation has been tabulated as being the cause of many accidents. If you are deprived of sleep, you will be tired and drowsy, your reactions will have slowed down and you will be highly stressed out. This will lead to an inability to cope with daily stresses and strains and to an overall feeling of tiredness.
In order to avoid situations like these it is important that you monitor the amount of sleep you are getting. On an average most of us get about 6.5 hours of sleep every day. The recommended amount is 8 to 8.5 hours for an adult.
For your general well being and in order to lead a healthy life, it is essential that you regulate your sleep hours. The body is a slave to routine; it likes to wake up at a certain hour and go to sleep at a certain time. For the sake of your body, it is important that you try and adhere to a consistent timing; do not think that if you miss some sleep today you can make up for it later. That is not likely to happen.
Once you settle into some kind of regulated sleep routines, you will realise how much better you feel, and how you will wake up feeling refreshed and ready to face the world.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:37 am
Too much of sleep also brings lazyness in our body, and less sleep brings tiredness, so you should maintain your sleeping hours, sleep when you are tired and start working when you feel fresh
December 4th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Sleep is one of the most important forms of resting our body, and to recharge energy. However, over-sleeping can be as harmful as sleep deprivation. Many go through either of these two problems in today’s fast world. Therefore, it’s important to know how many hours we must sleep daily depending on the activities that we do during the time we are awake. Besides, some prefer to sleep during the day and some other at night (some are forced to sleep at add hours as their job profiles demand).
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:17 pm
I agree with you Jenny. Too much sleep can be counter productive but I would rather have had too much sleep than a lack of it. For a while I was working two jobs and I was only getting about 4 to 5 hours of sleep a day. I noticed my health starting to deteriorate and when I went to the doctor she said it was from lack of sleep. Thanks for posting this and making people aware of how important sleep is