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Sleep experts agree: If you want to be fully alert and in a good mood, creative and energetic all day long, you might need to spend at least 1/3 of your life sleeping. Over an average lifetime, that’s a commitment of nearly twenty-four years in bed!
Most of us feel we can’t afford to spend so much time sleeping. Motivational speakers encourage us to spend less time sleeping and more time working. They’ll try to convince you that you can condition yourself to sleep just four hours a night.
Yes, you can condition yourself to wake up after four hours. But in the long term, lack of sleep can negatively affect your career, your health and your life. Sleep is not a luxury. It is a necessity!
Sleep = Power
The process of sleep, if given adequate time and the proper environment, provides tremendous POWER. It restores, rejuvenates and energizes the body and brain. The third of your life that you should spend sleeping has profound effects on the other two thirds of your life. Appropriate sleep can enhance your:
- alertness
- energy
- mood
- body weight
- perception
- memory
- thinking
- reaction time
- productivity
- performance
- communication skills
- creativity
- safety
- good health
- longevity
The various activities of the sleeping brain play a dramatic role in regulating bodily functions (including the immune system), energising the body, and enhancing thought processes when awake. That is why it is so important to get the right quantity and quality of sleep.
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