Ways To Deal With Insomnia- Goodnight Sleep

People needs to sleep at least 8 hours a day. We all knew that sleeping help us in many ways. When we get enough sleep, we feel better, we work better, etc. Especially for students, if they don't get enough sleeping, they would not probably do well in school.

The facts are:

•  Most people get less than 8 hours sleeping a day.
• We may get risk of heart attack,, cancers, shortened life.
• After 17 to 19 hours of no sleeping, our brains works similar to someone who drinks or have a blood alcohol level at 0.05.
• About 65% will have problem sleeping!

All this information are from the book "Sleep for Success! Everything You Must Know About Sleep But Too Tired to Ask". This book was written by James Maas and Rebecca Robbins.

There are variety of factors that causes you to lose sleep. Example: Stress from work, financial problems, working too hard, addicted to games, etc. Most of the factors might came from your stress. For teenagers, some of them are addicted to internet or some others which causes them lose sleep. The fact about most teenagers is the time they're most active is in midnight.

These are some guides to deal with Insomnia:

• Go to bed and wake up the same time everyday- This may helps your body to get used with it.
• Make up for lose sleep as soon as possible- If you have to sleep late, you can make up it by sleeping longer.
• Avoid caffeine after 2:00 pm- 6 hours after your last sip of caffeine, the half of caffeine you take in is still in your body.
• Avoid alcohol 3 hours before go to bed-  Alcohol causes you to wake up every 90 minutes. You'll be continually shaken through your night.
• Exercise between 5:00-7:00 pm- This may helps your body temperature to get hotter and it needs to be dropping.
• Keep your bedroom cool- A bedroom that is too hot can causes nightmares. 
• Turn off the light- Lights can wake you up
• Turn off all electronic devices- This may help prevent you from being wake up cause of your devices sounds or light.
• Read books (not about working)- Read books for about 30 minutes before bedtime can help your body to feel relax.
• Protect your privacy- Keep your children or pets outside your bedroom to prevent them from disturbing.

Jacobs, Deborah L. "12 Ways To Beat Insomnia And Sleep Better--No Matter What's Keeping You Awake." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 04 Mar. 2012. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/03/04/12-ways-to-beat-insomnia-and-sleep-better-no-matter-whats-keeping-you-awake/2/>.