3 Keys To Fall Asleep Fast (& Wake Up Energetic)
This article is kindly brought to you by Yan Muckle, publisher of SleepTracks.
1) There is a deadly trap most people who can’t fall asleep succumb to. And that is to tell themselves:
“I feel so tired, I’ll take it easy today. Where is my chair?”
Everybody has this kind of thought, it’s normal. You feel tired so you don’t want to spend more energy than you need to. But the problem is that to have energy, you first have to spend some!
Why is that? Partly because of the body temperature cycle wave. When you move your body vigorously, your body temperature goes up. Your whole body-mind gets aroused, and consequently you feel more alert, more alive, more energetic.
AND you’ll also sleep better after that. Not just because you spent energy and your body needs to recuperate, but also because you increased the amplitude of your body temperature cycle wave.
Since exercising made it go higher, it will go lower when night comes. It’s like a pendulum: the more it sways on one side, the further it’ll go on the other side.
2) Here’s a simple formula: Level of activity + time awake + level of relaxation = sleep quality.
Your level of activity plus the time you’ve been awake plus the degree to which you’re relaxed will equal to the quality of sleep you’ll experience. Increase any of those 3 factors and you’ll increase the soundness of your sleep - and lower the time it takes you to fall asleep.
One of the reasons why exercising with some intensity improves your sleep is because of the wear and tear associated with it.
Exercising stress your muscles and your overall system - and the body compensates by making you sleep deeper, longer. During deep sleep, growth hormone is released and the body is deeply engaged in repairing and rejuvenating itself.
What is even better is to perform those physical activities outside, where you can expose yourself to sunlight.
3) Athletes’s brains have one thing that most insomniacs don’t have. The brain of athletes exhibit a lot of a specific brainwave range in the beta group.
This range is called SMR, for sensory motor rhythm. Scientists think they’re involved in the control of arousal states, energy levels, and also of inhibiting movement during sleep.
Strangely, most insomniacs (and also people who suffer from ADHD) have a huge deficiency of this brainwave band.
It has been found that increasing SMR generally results in deeper sleep and more energy throughout the day.
The Insomnia Buster track in the SleepTracks Sleep Optimization Program has been designed to remove this deficiency by stimulating the brain in the SMR range.
But I bet you’re already thinking of another way you could enhance SMR production, aren’t you? Of course. Exercising, moving your body would help tremendously.
You don’t have to spend 2 hours in the gym. Taking a brisk 30-minute walk in the morning would do the trick - with the added bonus of exposing yourself to full daylight.
Hope you enjoyed this article, for further details, check out SleepTracks.
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Great post.
Exercise can help to raise the energy level. For me, another method use is to listen to soundwave enhancement music 10 mins/day.
Somehow this helps to increase my focus and raise my energy level. I work 13-16 hrs a day on my project and yet still carry on with drive.
I leave my post for people who want to know how I use music to increase my energy:
June 7th, 2007 at 12:11 amhttp://www.secretofunlimitedprosperity.com/10/law-of-attraction-the-secret-of-attraction-accelerator
This post came at just the right time for me. I had a rough night, am very tired, and was tempted to blow off a lot of what I had planned. Thanks for such a great reminder of how to build energy.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:08 pmthx for the info. it will be very useful to me.
September 20th, 2007 at 5:34 amVery useful.
I often do not have enough time for sleep since I have a lot of works to do.
And so I listen to classical music powered by soundwave enhancement which makes my brain relaxing while I’m working…And the technique works effectively, I become more energized as well as work more efficiently.
After a few period of using the soundwave enhancement, now even without listening to the music, my energy level keep constant, so the more I use it, the less I need it…
But, as in your post, exercising is very crucial to maintain our energy level. But based on my experience and some research, If we do a very hard exercise like running 2,4km less than 6 hours before we sleep, our sleep level of effectiveness would decreases…
And yes, as your suggestion, it is better to do little exercises oftenly rather than do 1 hard exercise once/month.
I have posted another method of energy healing:
September 24th, 2007 at 12:14 amhttp://lifesmatter.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/energy-healing-101-pranic-tantric-and-reiki/