If you’re feel especially stressed lately, lack of sleep may be the cause. When you feel overwhelmed, it’s because your body has been at an altered state of stress and then when you’re confronted with more you become overloaded. When you sleep at night, your body repairs itself. It brings stress levels down to normal IF the levels are not extremely high. If you are already at a high stress level, your body begins to bring it down but it won’t have enough time to get it down enough.
However, if you do things to keep your stress down and get enough sleep. The stress you do experience throughout the day can be relieved with a restful night’s sleep. The stress you incur during the day is manageable and the sleep takes care of it.
Dealing with Insomnia During Stressful Times
But what happens when you can’t sleep BECAUSE you are stressed? This compounds your stress problems when this happens. The best thing you can do is sleep when you can take care of yourself as much as possible when you aren’t sleeping. Calming techniques like a massage, meditation and just laying down are all ways for your body to relax without sleeping. It may just relax you enough so that you will sleep when you need to.
Caffeine Is a No-No When Stressed
Pay attention to what you drink because too much caffeine can increase your stress even more. That jolt you get from your coffee will bring your stress to a greater level. So not only is the caffeine keeping you up but also the stress. It’s best to limit caffeine during extreme times of stress – no matter how sleepy you are from insomnia or not enough sleep.
Photo: Scott McLeod
Mon, May 3, 2010
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