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Getting Good Sleep: Tips for Putting an End to Insomnia
It is said that our quality of sleep defines our health. Sleep is not needed just to relax our body, but also our emotions and mind find balance through sleep. Making some simple lifestyle changes and sleep hygiene can go a long way in improving our overall health.
Why is it important?
During sleep, our mind, body, and life energies rest, reset, detoxify, and rejuvenate to keep us healthy. We go through a subconscious state during sleep that is important for physiological and cognitive functioning. Our dream sequences help us heal stress and anxiety by processing stored emotions and memories. Sleep deprivation can cause a degradation of our immune system, increased cancer growth, and cognitive impairment.
Oversleeping can be as harmful as sleep deprivation. It is seen as a sign of serious health issues and causes muscle degeneration. Alcohol addiction, depression, emotional disturbances, diabetes, headaches, obesity, heart disease, and more can cause excessive sleep.
In yoga, the experience of sleep is similar to a meditation experience except that sleep is an experience of the…
