Struggling with sleeping? | Elin Härkönens blogg

Do you have problems to fall asleep at night? It is recommended to sleep between 7-9 hours/night, but of course it is individual just like everything else... If you have an active lifestyle and train hard or work a lot, you need more sleep... It is when we sleep the body gets the time to recover, build up the scar tissues again after training and become bigger and stronger. It is during sleep we are processing facts, store memories and become smarter... Sleep is extremely important and if you don't sleep enough everything in your life will be affected, negatively. Your hormons gets imbalanced, your brain exhausted and your muscles weaker... Some people gain weight, and some people lose weight. (The body has such a high stress-level and can not process the energy as it is suppose to do.) Are you having troubles with sleeping? Do you need some advices of what to do to make you sleep better? Stress . Are you stressed about something in life? Worried? anxious? When we are stressed the body produces more of the hormones Adrenalin and Cortisol, which are the "fight hormones", and tell our body to get ready for fight! So as you probably understand, the body doesn't feel like sleeping when the brain is telling it to " prepare for a fight." = it is hard to fall a sleep.... so one thing that will help you sleep better is: Do not stress!! Haha easy to say, harder to do (I KNOW!) but try.... try to put away all the things that makes you stressed before bedtime. Put away your paper-work, your laptop and phone 1 hour before bed-time. the light from the screen do actually fool the brain and give it the signals that it is day...

More advices are coming....