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Improving the Quality of your Sleep

Are you lacking good sleep? Follow these nine tips for improving sleep quality.
 
 
1. Follow a regular exercise program, preferably in the fresh air and sunshine. The body will rest better if it has been active.
 
2. Don't eat a heavy evening meal. When the body has to finish the digestion process after you go to bed, you won't get the proper quality of rest.
 
3. Have a regular sleeping schedule. Go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time, including weekends. Studies show that the most efficient sleep occurs between 9:00 pm and 12:00 midnight.

4. Before bedtime, relax your body and mind. Take a warm bath; drink a cup of herbal tea; enjoy some quiet reading or soft music; or do something pleasant and soothing.

5. Avoid stimulants like computer, television, tobacco, and caffeine.

6. Avoid upsetting argument, conversation, and confrontations in the evening. Before bedtime set your worries and anxieties aside. Ask forgiveness and make restitution to those you may have hurt. Obtain a clear conscience.

7. Refrain from alcohol. It interferes with the body's ability to rebuild itself while you are sleeping. Check your medications for side effects that interfere with sleep.
 
8. Prepare a cool, dark, comfortable, tidy, and quiet sleeping area with an abundant supply of fresh air to soothe the body and encourage rest.

9. As you go to sleep, take time to be thankful for the blessings in your life.

Our bodies require more than just a daily period of sleep. At Creation, God provided for a weekly rest, the Sabbath. This gives us a whole day without work, when the week's cares are set aside for quality time with God and our families. This is indispensable for total health. It's like an oasis in the midst of our busy lives.

If we work continuously, we impose a strain upon our health and set ourselves up for diseases. A longer period of recreation and relaxation is also important from time to time to refresh and renew us.

Read about the next law of health, Temperance

Updated September 2009. 

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