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Sleep Health - Sleep - 5 Essential Benefits to Your Good Health!

Published Monday, August 18, 2008 by bloggerblognet4542 | E-mail this post

It is true: You feel BETTER when you get a good night's sleep! Lying down comfortably, falling asleep easily and sleeping through the night is a pattern that allows you to awaken refreshed and be more alert throughout the day. It improves your mood significantly.

And this is only the beginning! Here are additional benefits of good sleep on your health:

Benefit #1 -- Relieve Stress: Sleep is a natural stress reducer. Sleep allows all of your systems -- physical, mental, emotional and spiritual -- the time and opportunity to begin repair on the damage that stress may have created in your being. When you sleep, your body is free to focus on assessment and self-healing, including creating new cells to replace damaged ones and fighting disease and infection.

Benefit #2 -- Better Memory: Sleep is the normal time when long-term memories are embedded in the mind. During the time you are asleep, your mind stores information. It then organizes it for easier retrieval later on.

Benefit #3 -- Maintain Weight: Sleep -- in adequate amounts -- helps to maintain a healthy weight. When you are fatigued, your body tries to deal with this, seeking out energy in whatever ways are available. One common source of this energy is by-mouth in the form of additional calories.

Benefit #4 -- Improve Mood: Sleep helps to improve your mood and ward off depression. Adequate sleep can help ward off serotonin deficiency, which is believed to be a contributing factor in depression.

Benefit #5 -- Enhance Life Quality: Sleep helps to increase your quality of life. It makes even-ordinary experiences and tasks much more enjoyable.

So, the next time you are tempted to think of sleep as just a waste of time, think again! Far from wasting your time "doing nothing", sleep is a time of intense productivity for the health of your body, mind and emotions. You can honestly tell yourself, "I'm going to do something really productive now -- I'm going to sleep!"

To create any/all of these Benefits in your own life, I urge you to get to sleep early and sleep well! When you want to be highly productive and get a LOT done, get to sleep early and sleep well! When you wish to relieve stress and re-balance your life, get to sleep early and sleep well.

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