❌MYTH : Looking at your phone or watching TV before bed will keep you up at night.
✅THE TRUTH : Elina said if looking at your phone ‘helps you unwind’ then it shouldn’t affect your quality of sleep but to switch off if you’re using your device for something that ‘stimulates’ you too much.
❌MYTH : You should go to bed at the same time every night, even on weekends
✅THE TRUTH : While our bodies like to have regular cycles, Elina said, life changes and demands can often make it difficult to keep a strict routine.
Having consistent sleeping and waking times trains our internal body clock and may help us fall asleep more easily but if keeping to a regular sleep schedule creates stress, for example, due to life demands, then having some flexibility in sleep schedules can be helpful.
❌MYTH : Medication will fix my sleep problems.
✅THE TRUTH : Sedatives only address the symptoms, not the root causes of poor sleep.
❌MYTH : What I do in the hour before bed will dictate how well I sleep.
✅THE TRUTH : It is actually both your daytime activities, and your night time physical environment, that determine the quality and ease of your sleep.
In other words, changing stressful thought and feelings to more positive ones, as well as having a supportive and comfortable mattress, are essential components to your sleep.
❌MYTH : Poor sleep is just something I have to live with.
✅THE TRUTH : It is your birth right to enjoy revitalising, sound, blissful sleep. Insomnia and poor sleep are real and legitimate struggles – but there is a solution, and you are worth finding it!
❌MYTH : Poor sleep positions are what cause my night time pain.
✅THE TRUTH : This may be true, but quite often people are sleeping on old or unsupportive mattresses. It can often be this, rather than their sleep position, that is causing night time pain.
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