WORKING OUT YOUR OPTIMUM LEVEL OF SLEEP

‘Alcohol helps me sleep’ was a major limiting belief I held for years. I truly believed that a night cap would help me sleep. Yes it almost certainly did ‘knock me out’ but I was deluding myself, as the longer-term effects are quite the opposite.

After I stopped drinking alcohol, I went from getting five hours of interrupted sleep, packed with anxiety attacks and trips to the loo, because I’d drunk too much alcohol and water to combat its effects, to around seven hours of non-stop sleeping like a baby. This all happened very quickly, over the first few weeks.

Central to any good sleep strategy is working out the optimum number of sleep hours you need. For me it’s six and a half to seven hours a night. For the past three years or so, I’ve pretty much been fast asleep between 10.15pm and 4.45am.

Once you know your optimum amount, try to adhere to this as much as possible. Make sleep central to your life and build your life around it.

In the two and a half years or so since I started walking 9 kilometres before 9 O’clock in the morning (9KM BY 9AM), there have been only a few days when I went to bed later than 10pm and, in doing so, I upset the system. These reasons included travel and staying up to watch late night sports events, which finished in the early hours. I still got up to do my early morning walk but I felt the pain later, nodding off to sleep a couple of times during the day. What I should have done was sleep through, making sure I got my six and a half to seven hours.

HOW TO WORK OUT YOUR OPTIMUM LEVEL OF SLEEP

An adult normally needs between seven and nine hours sleep per night.

To work out your optimum number of hours you need to go to sleep without an alarm clock and make a note of what time you fall asleep and what time you wake up. Over four or five days you will notice a pattern. If you have to be up early for work during the week, do your test at the weekends.

If you’re optimum level is seven hours, stick to it. Don’t sleep for six or eight hours. Sleep for seven.

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