In an excellent WebMD article, Camille Peri summarizes recent research on ten consequences of inadequate sleep:
1. Sleepiness causes accidents
2. Sleep loss dumbs you down
3. Sleep deprivation can lead to serious health problems
4. Lack of sleep kills sex drive
5. Sleepiness is depressing
6. Lack of sleep ages your skin
7. Sleepiness makes you forgetful
8. Losing sleep can make you gain weight
9. Lack of sleep may increase risk of death
10. Sleep loss impairs judgment, especially about sleep
You can read the entire article by clicking on the link below.
Her article illustrates that sleeping well is essential to our health and well-being. It's essential to staying alive. Since our spirit is that which makes us alive, sleeping is a spirit-related matter.
So, we do well to assess how much we value sleeping well. How much we value sleeping well is a reflection of how much we value our own spirit and life.
We also do well to assess how well we are sleeping. If we aren't sleeping well and want to do better, there is a lot of excellent research and information published about various things we can do to improve our sleep, heal and strengthen our spirits, and improve the quality of our lives.
Sleeping well is a very individualized thing. It takes trying different things to find out what works best for us. So, enjoy the process of discovery.
And be assured of this: you do not have to buy anything to improve your sleep.
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/excessive-sleepiness-10/10-results-sleep-loss?page=1
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