Benefits of Proper Sleep

When it comes to our healthy lifestyle, we all know that peaceful sleep has an incredible effect on it. Not only me, but many of you also agree that sleeping is their favorite thing during the day or night. However,

how many of us know the benefits of sleep and what is proper helpful sleep?

Well, a simply understandable answer would be: sleep recovers your whole body from muscle to brain, tiredness to stress; it recovers most of your damages. But,

have you noticed that after sleeping for hours, we still feel tired, not ‘my day’ type? We don’t get our expected energy. Why is that?

Well, I’m not a professional or have a PhD in sleep, but from my experience as a sleep lover, what I can say is: we do not maintain a proper sleep diet.

Introduction to Sleep Diet

What I mean by ‘diet’ in general many of us maintain a healthy or helpful diet which helps us to have a healthy body. In the diet, we monitor our calorie intake, our food chart, our sugar consumption, and many more. Well, I feel like we also need to have a proper diet on sleep. A diet mostly contains carbs, protein, sugars to give a healthy energetic body. By following that, you calculate what to eat. In a sleep diet, we will have what things to avoid to get us a great, well-shaped sleep.

Many of us simply go to bed and scroll through the phone until we get tired and sleepy. Many of you regret many things, have tension and frustration at the back of the mind. We don’t give our eyes rest or our brains a chance to slow down. And when we sleep, we wake up as it is; we feel down.

Well, Just like our bodies need rest to recover, our brains and eyes do too. When we sleep with many things back of our mind, our brain keeps poking at that. That’s why we don’t get enough satisfying sleep. I’m pretty sure most of us don’t want that kind of eye-shut hours.

Implementing Sleep Diet

After a long, busy day with too much stress and work pressure, we all deserve a well-needed shut-eye hours. Now,

what I personally do to achieve my golden hours,

I call it “sleep diet” or you can call it sleep discipline. Before I go to bed, I take a shower, sometimes with warm water or sometimes with chilled water, depending on my mood. Sometimes I do some cardio, mostly jogging. If I get time, it doesn’t take more than 10-15 minutes before taking a shower. I have a bedtime alarm which helps me to remind my sleep schedule. After the shower, I go to bed with a fresh mind. If I have something to do with my phone, I do it before going to bed. Once I lay down on my bed, my sleep diet doesn’t allow me to touch my phone. Now that I don’t have my phone, I have nothing to do but shut my eyes. Here is where the problem comes: now my thoughts poke my mind. But with the help of my exercise, shower, and sleep diet, my negative thoughts go away and give my brain a proper break to sleep. 

Result of Sleep Diet

After sleeping like a baby, I really feel it’s a new day. My body and mind restart and run smoothly again.