Nope, I am not talking about your dreams when you’re sleeping.
I am talking about your day dreams.
The things you wish for when you are awake.
Are you wishing for a promotion, a house of your own, your own business, improving the sales of your present business?
You want to achieve not just for yourself but you want to give your kids a good life.
And you want to be the best wife or mom your kids could look up to.
Or maybe you’re single and you just want to be the best person you can possibly be.
You can have all that. You just have to know where to start.
What will you say if I tell you to start in your bedroom?
Yes. Start in your bedroom and get the right amount of good quality sleep.
What Sleep Can Do for You
In our fast-paced world, sleep often gets pushed to the bottom of our priority list. Whether it’s work deadlines, family obligations, or the irresistible temptation to binge-watch our favorite shows, we frequently sacrifice sleep, treating it as something expendable. We always say we’ll do better tomorrow but somehow it never happens because of all the new to-do’s we have added to our list.
And before we know it, we find ourselves in a never-ending cycle of poor sleep and broken promises of doing better next time.
But because we are stuck in this vicious cycle, we often find ourselves being irritable or drowsy all the time, having an unhealthy complexion, struggling to absorb information, having memory problems, having frequent colds and coughs, struggling to focus and concentrate on tasks, or worse, being anxious all the time. All these prevent us from doing and being our best at home and at work.
We feel guilty when we do not get enough sleep because we know sleep is important.
But how important is sleep really? Many of us are not aware of what sleep can do for us.
Our body is like a machine. It has to rest to be able to perform well. Sleep is more than just rest.
Sleep releases toxins that have accumulated throughout the day.
It reduces the level of the stress hormone, cortisol.
It allows the growth hormones to effectively rebuild injured tissues.
Sleep helps you think more clearly, focus better, and improves your reasoning and problem solving skills.
Sleep helps you learn better and helps you retain what you’ve learned. Without sleep, your ability to learn new things could decrease up to 40%.
Dr. Matthew Walker, a sleep scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, said that sleep before learning helps prepare your brain for initial formation of memories and that sleep after learning helps save and cement that information into the architecture of your brain. Lack of sleep negatively affects the hippocampus which is the part of the brain that is key to making new memories.
Because sleep does wonders for your immunity, illnesses are kept at bay.
Sleep gives you quicker reflexes.
Sleep affects every part of your body — your mood, appetite, breathing, blood pressure, complexion, cardiovascular health, to name a few.
With enough good quality sleep every day, you can experience less anxiety, be healthier, make better, wiser and timely decisions, recognize opportunities, have better relationships, finish tasks faster, and retain more information. Your inner health will make your complexion glow.
Imagine your confidence!
Imagine what you can do!
Imagine what you can be!
Along with keeping yourself hydrated and consuming nutrient-rich foods, getting enough sleep will do wonders for your health.
Before you know it, you are well on your way to living your dreams!
The Pink Leap 