5 Rules for Better Sleep

How good are your sleeping habits? Do you wake up feeling groggy and tired or refreshed and rested? If you feel like you could be getting better sleep, follow these five rules outlined in the article I Practiced Perfect Sleep Hygiene for a Week and Here's What Happened. Published on Self, the author gave herself a a sleep intervention and chronicles the her results.

I love sleep, but sleep doesn’t love me back. I am constantly tired, wake up multiple times every night, experience both night sweats and stress dreams, and multiple attempts to become a morning person have ended in shambolic disaster. I recently decided to stage an intervention on myself, to get my act together and form some healthy sleep habits.

I researched sleep hygiene, which is basically a set of habits you can adopt to maximize healthy sleep. I also took a hard look at my recent sleep habits, with the help of my Apple Watch and Sleep++ app.

I started by tracking my sleep for nine nights to get a handle on my current sleep patterns.

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