Julie Schoen - Good Night Yoga: Your Evening Yoga Guide For A Full Nights Rest (Just Do Yoga Book 2)

Recent studies done by the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research show that a whopping fifteen percent of all Americans over the age of eighteen experience chronic insomnia. Those same studies also reveal that nearly forty percent of Americans suffer from some form of insomnia throughout the course of a year. And even for the other sixty percent, nearly half will complain about feelings of unrest and lethargy several times throughout the year.

We probably all know the importance of a good nights rest. But, just in case you need a reminder, here are the top ten reasons why bedtime should be at the top of your list of priorities each and every day.

1. Sleep puts you in a good mood, which makes it easier to build and keep relationships and get work done throughout the day. More sleep also lowers your chance of developing depression and decreases its effects if you already suffer from it.
2. Sleep makes you look and feel younger by giving the cells in your body, like those that make up the skin, time to replenish and rejuvenate.
3. Sleep helps to improve your memory by consolidating information and skills you learn during the day, making it easier to recall the information later.
4. More than six hours of sleep each night helps to reduce inflammation in the body, which is a major contributing factor of illnesses and health problems such as heart disease, stokes, diabetes, and arthritis.
5. Sleep makes you better at what you do it promotes creativity, helps you find solutions to problems faster, and even helps athletes perform at a higher level. Case in point, college football players who slept ten hours each night for two months straight had higher levels of endurance and faster sprint times than those who didnt.
6. Sleep helps you lose weight without having to diet because being well rested actually helps to curb your appetite throughout your day. Of course, by sleeping more and dieting you will see even faster results.
7. A full nights rest lowers stress in the body, which means you will have a reduced risk for having high cholesterol and heart disease.
8. Sleep keeps you safe, especially while driving. Each year, more fatal crashes are caused each year by sleep-deprived people than by drunk drivers!
9. Enough sleep boosts your immune system, making you more resistant to common illnesses such as the cold or flu.
10. Allowing your body adequate time to rest helps it to make repairs to the body, meaning you will heal faster, look younger, and may even reduce your risk of developing cancer.

So now that you are completely convinced of why you should be getting enough sleep each night, the question becomes how do you make sure that you are sleeping soundly on a regular basis?

Sleep deprivation and insomnia are beyond frustrating for the millions of people who struggle every night to sleep, even when they are completely exhausted. And for people who might not have trouble getting to or staying asleep, it can be equally frustrating to wake up in the morning feeling more tired than you did before you went to bed. In order to understand how to fix sleepless nights and grumpy mornings, we have to find the source of the problem, which is today literally right at our fingertips.