Author Bio: Nicole Carter is a health enthusiast and
blogger who has done a lot of sleep and snoring related research. You can find
her opinion about snoring and sleep disorders on SnoringCanada.com.
Sleep is one of the most important
activities in the life of a person. However, several other benefits are
associated with it than what people know. It is an essential activity that
affects the sense of well-being and happiness. If you have been spending your
sleeping time to do other things, there is a probability that you will not lead
a healthy lifestyle. Sleeping has an impact on both physical and healthy
living, and here are a few things that directly link your sleeping habits to
your general contentment.
Work
Productivity
When you become productive, whether at work
or in your social life, the feeling of beatitude is automatic. Productive
people also tend to attract individuals closer to them to tap on the
productiveness. Therefore, getting enough sleeping hours at night ensures that
you wake up feeling fresh and full of new ideas.
Productive people are likely to feel happy
due to the achievements they bring about on a daily basis. If you are working
in an organization, when you become productive, it makes the employer identify
and reward your hard work. The recognition and reward will automatically
trigger the sense of fulfilment. When you don’t get enough rest, it becomes so
difficult to concentrate on even the basic skills.
Improves
your Memory Capacity
An alert and clear brain helps you to
learn, focus, be creative, and remember information. You function right and to
the best of your ability when you rest properly. When you are sleepy, your
memories tend to shut down and create an opportunity for you to be less
productive and easy to make mistakes.
When you are in a healthy sleeping
lifestyle, it's easy to take in information throughout the day. Additionally, a
restful night helps you retain and process the information over a long time.
This is because it triggers the changes in the brain and solidifies memories,
therefore, making it easy to transfer information from one brain cell to the
other.
Illuminates
Adenosine
When you are awake and active, your brain
keeps releasing adenosine.
If you don’t get enough time to rest, adenosine keeps accumulating. By this
time, you will start feeling drowsy and unproductive. However, if you take a
nap and meet the required resting limits, your brain rejuvenates and clears all
adenosine formation to keep you active throughout the day. On the other hand,
if you fail to rest accordingly, your brain will not have enough time to clear
adenosine, hence keeping you drowsy all the time.
Improves
Relationships
Having a good relationship with your
spouse, children and co-workers keep you happy throughout the day. People who
take naps that are less than 8 hours a night find it difficult to maintain a
healthy relationship. When you don’t experience quality night eye shutting, you
become impatient with people around you. However, people with good sleeping
habits have a high tolerance to surrounding environments and possess the time
to listen to others.
It also helps you get the ability to
understand others for who they are and come up with a way of accommodating them
as they are. Also, sleeping makes it easy for you to find a balance in case of
a disagreement and find a solution rather than intensifying the situation.
Parents who get quality naps can communicate with their children without
yelling at them all the time.
However, according to statistics, 35% of
people said they were satisfied and felt happy with their financial status and
sex drive even if they didn’t have a good sleeping habit. Another group that
produced a high score of up to 63% was of people who rest more than 8 hours
every night. People who don’t get enough rest feed on the hormone that triggers
fear, anger, and anxiety. This is because, when your brain is not rested, its
emotional center triggers primitive feelings. However, when you rest
adequately, your brain processes prefrontal cortex that keeps the amygdala
(emotional center of the brain) in check. In turn, this produces a balanced
response, process better feeling, and gives you a healthy nature.
Weight
loss
Weight loss is something that affects
almost everyone who feels they have gained unnecessary weight. The feeling of
being obese or having extra pounds affects the way you respond to situations or
even personal feelings. This fact makes you feel unwanted, therefore, making
you unhappy. When you sleep well, it is possible to lose weight and get a
perfect posture. This makes you feel confident, and this helps you to develop
feelings of gladness naturally.
General
Wellbeing
Another survey indicates that when it comes
to the general wellbeing of a person, income, and positions of power result in
a 0.5
% increase in happiness. It shows
that a person who has a good pay raise but fails to rest well at night or takes
naps that are less than 8 hours finds it hard to feel happy and motivated for
the day. This is in comparison to those who get sufficient rest, although they
have meager incomes.
Additionally, living well makes it easy for
you to fight the risks of chronic conditions like diabetes and HBP. When your
body is resting, it generates the hormones that give strength to your blood
cells, which in return, makes it possible to fight all forms of attacks that
can trigger illnesses. When you are healthy, it is automatic that you will feel
happy and encouraged.
Conclusion
Although sleeping is not the only driver of
contentment, it plays a major role in the way a person feels and reacts to
situations. Therefore, as much as you cannot purchase contentment, having
enough sleeping moments can make you happy.
However, other factors contribute to
happiness and a healthy lifestyle. In fact, if you ever find yourself in a
situation where you need to make a choice between a 50% pay increase and
getting additional sleeping hours, picking the latter will make you feel much
better than opting for more cash. Therefore, practice skills that will help you
to get better sleep and wake up feeling fresh and rejuvenated to face the day.
