Sleep pays a vital role in good health and wellbeing throughout your life. Getting enough quality sleep at the right time can help protect your mental health, physical health, develop energy, build immunity and the quality of life. Studies shows that good night's sleep improves learning and problem solving skills.?
Sleep is also involved in healing and repair of your cells, tissues and organs and healthy balance of hormones which make you feel hungrier and full. Sleep also supports healthy growth and development. Deep sleep triggers the body to release growth hormones to boost muscle mass and repair of cells.
With 7-8 hours of sleep it revitalizes cognitive function and increases memory power, psychological repair and proper mind body integration, proper oxygenate and distribute nutrients to body - organ and muscles.
While some writers and artists stay awake till late night to help them focus or wait for inspiration to hit before getting down to business, many of history's most creative and prolific figures take a different approach. When their creative energy is sure to be at its highest, they focus on their most difficult job first and begin working earlier, sometimes before sunrise. They also frequently establish routines to avoid wasting time and precious creative energy by constantly reinventing the wheel.
Simple activities like walking can encourage creative thinking. It can assist our brains maintain a light level of focus, which permits more mind-wandering and promotes subsequent creativity, in addition to acting as a sort of exercise (which increases blood flow to the brain). There is reason to believe that walking encourages creativity and may help you solve challenges faced at work, especially if you walk while the problems are still fresh in your mind. Walking may not be as helpful for focused, analytical thinking.
If you work imaginatively and creatively for lengthy periods of time or in a challenging setting, afternoon naps may be beneficial to you. Even a brief snooze can be helpful in recharging your brain, according to sleep specialists. The most obvious advantages of naps are that they improve alertness and reduce weariness. Even a little snooze of 20 minutes or less improves focus by providing your brain a chance to replenish lost energy.
Science reveals that there are other ways to be productive than pushing ourselves to work long hours, despite the belief of many of us. Working more hours might result in stress, burnout, alienation from work, and subpar performance at work. It can also stifle innovation and creativity. It is simpler to start the next day if you stop when you still have some energy. Also, it appears to encourage your subconscious mind to solve work-related issues during the break.
It is the best way to unwind and is essential to leading a creative and successful life. Our bodies spend the majority of the day going about the business of living, using energy for motor and cognitive activities. As we go to sleep, our bodies go into maintenance mode and focus on storing energy, repairing or replacing damaged cells, and developing, while our brains purge toxins, analyse the events of the day, and occasionally concentrate on issues that have been on our minds during the day.
Rest is not being idly. It's the secret to living a better life. Your health is greatly impacted by your sleep. Insufficient sleep was connected to an 89% higher risk of obesity in children and a 55% higher risk in adults, according to a comprehensive review. According to other research, sleeping for fewer than 7-8 hours every night raises your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.?
Making sleep a high priority and implementing some of the aforementioned suggestions are advised if you're interested in achieving your best level of health and wellbeing.
About the author: Dr. Damodar Bindhani is the Clinical Director and HOD ¨C Pulmonology, CARE Hospitals, Bhubaneswar. All views/opinions expressed in the article are of the author.?