Everyone may live and work under pressure. Sometimes stress can push us forward, but too much stress may break us down. People usually can not easily fall asleep when they feel stressful. This is a common reason why people have insomnia.
So, what happens when people feel stressful?
- Adrenaline increases
- The heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate rapidly increase.
- Brain wave rise.
These will stimulate the nervous system and keep people in an excitement, which is not a state to fall asleep. Stress let people stay away from high quality sleep or even sleep. Bad sleep will lower work efficiency, and stress caused by low work efficiency will affect sleep. Then the circle becomes worse and worse.
How can we judge the insomnia is caused by stress?
Generally, insomnia is caused by 5 reasons.
1)Environmental change
Uncomfortable sleep environment or the change of accustomed sleep place would cause insomnia.
2)Physiological reason
Some disease or body pains may cause insomnia.
3)Psychological reason
The anxiety, depression, anger, excitement would cause insomnia.
4)Drugs cause
The alcohol, drug abuse, drug dependence would cause insomnia.
5)Lifestyle
Unhealthy lifestyle would cause insomnia such as exercise before bedtime, eat too much at night.
So, you can know which reason your insomnia is caused by above 5 reasons and treat them according to the reasons. This article mainly talks about insomnia caused by stress.
How can we decompress and have better sleep?
- Slow down
As the pace of life in the modern city becomes faster, a series of outcomes is created by faster pace, for example, fast fashion industry, pop-up stores. People live under the high pressure in case be replaced by new blood. Don’t push yourself too hard. Just slow down your step and catch a deep breath.
- Keep in good mood
Things have two sides, optimistic person always see the good while the pessimistic person always firstly see the bad. We cannot always live with negative emotion, which will affect our mind and make things worse. Smile often even when you are not really want to smile. Remember that happiness is contagious. This action will send a signal to your brain to keep in a good mood, and the smile can create a relaxed atmosphere for all people with you.
- Give vent to negative emotions
Don’t let the negative emotions inside your mind for long time. Try to express them in some ways. Do exercises until dripping with sweat, and you will find the negative emotions go away with the sweat. Yell out the bad mood like pouring out the garbage in an empty place. Watch some funny movies and TV shows so that you can forget the things bothered you. Or talk to somebody who you trust to share your pain.
- Take a trip
Jump off from your daily life into a travel. A short term travel like two or three days will make a big difference. Instead of escape, a trip is to think without stress about the meaning of life or the reason for hard working. In a trip, you can broaden your mind and experience another life style and come back to your own life in a peaceful mood. Stress sometimes is not so stressful depending on how you look at it.
- Listen to music
Most people Listen to music when they are tired or stressful. Study shows that specific music has the therapeutic effect for tension and stress. Specific music refers to the music in some specific wave, such as the classic music and the sound of breeze and chatter. The music can promote the body to create endorphin, a natural analgesic, to relieve pain.
- Take a bath
A 15-minute bath has the same pressure relief effect as two-hour sleep. The water temperature in 40℃(104℉) will maximize the effect. Water pressure, buoyancy and bubbles will massage the tense muscle, dilate blood vessels, promote blood circulation so as to relieve pressure and eliminate fatigue. The fatigue and stress will completely disappear when take a warm bath and listen to music at the same time. After the warm bath, you can easier fall asleep and get more deep sleep.
- Ask doctor for help
When the stress is out of your control, or you have been suffering from the insomnia for a long time, affecting your normal life and health, go to doctor for help. A survey shows that almost 74% people never thought about seeing a doctor when they have insomnia. It is not a shame to see a doctor because of stress or insomnia. If it is not treated in time, the insomnia may cause other disease.
Conclusion
It is impossible to live without stress. As the beginning we said, sometimes stress can push us forward, but too much stress may break us down. We have to live with stress and learn to keep balance between you and stress. If you have sleep problems caused by stress or anxiety, practice the tips mentioned above to relief pressure and make your mind peaceful, then you can get a good sleep.
