Knowing How Much Sleep You Need

On the topic of how much sleep your body “needs,” you are likely to hear all different sorts of answers from all different sources. The most common advice you are likely to hear claims that adults need to get between 7 and 8 hours of sleep in order to be optimally healthy, and that those who get under 6 hours of sleep per night are at much higher health risk. But there have also been studies that have concluded that those who sleep between 4 and 6 hours are at lower health risk than those who sleep between 7 and 8, and that those who sleep more than 8 hours per night are at the highest health risk of all!

The reason for this disparity from study to study is simple: every person requires a different amount of sleep, and each person must find out what is the optimal amount for them; furthermore, finding out how much sleep you need yourself is actually a very simple process.
How To Sleep Properly

First off, you need to realize that nearly everyone feels tired when they first wake up, and the worst way to try to find what is the “right amount” for you is to ask yourself how much sleep you need to get before you “feel like” getting out of bed in the morning! Instead, you need to spend some time disciplining your body and mind until you get used to waking up at the exact same time every day. Once you have finally trained your body and mind to know that they will be waking up at the same time every day, the next step is really quite simple: wait until you will actually be tired enough to fall asleep right away before you go to bed!
By doing this, you will train your body and mind to grow tired at the time you need to go to sleep, as they will grow to know exactly how much sleep they will get before they wake up at that standard morning time!
The Natural Sleep Solution!

Sleep well,

Joyce Hearn