Importance of SleepAre you aware of the importance of sleep to your health? When you sleep, your body is given the chance to focus on recovering, which is essential to achieving and maintaining great health. Sleep restores balance to the nervous system and brain, healing, repairing and rebalancing body chemistry.What happens when you’re asleep? You don’t have to understand the scientific version of sleeping to know the importance of sleep or to obtain the benefits. There are four stages of sleep. When you arrive at stage four, REM sleep, this is the deepest sleep where the body does the majority of it’s repairing and healing.  How much sleep do you need? Enough. The average person needs between 8 and 10 hours. If you are extremely active or training, you’ll need more. Those who are sedentary during the day will probably need less. Listen to your body and find the amount that’s enough for you. It’s best to go to bed and rise when the sun does to reap the maximum benefits of the sleep cycle. It’s also beneficial to take a rest during the day even if you don’t sleep. Just letting your body unwind and relax can do wonders for your mood, heart and mindset.
Luckily, I’ve almost always been fortunate to fall asleep fast just about anywhere, although there are times when I have a hard time. I know some people can’t get to sleep well and then they wake up several times during the night and never really get REM sleep, sometimes relying on drugs. I had the hardest time when I was 8-9 months pregnant and couldn’t get comfortable and had to use the bathroom every thirty minutes. Here’s my secret for relaxing and falling asleep quickly.
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