STOP LOSING SLEEP OVER YOUR SLEEP
That’s the advice from a new study out of the UK’s University of Warwick, which found that how people feel about their sleep has a greater impact on their wellbeing than the actual quality of their sleep. For example, when study participants reported that they felt like they’d slept better than they normally did, they experienced more positive emotions and a greater sense of ‘life satisfaction’ the next day. In contrast, on its own, a ‘good night’s sleep’ as measured by sleep-tracking technology wasn’t associated with better wellbeing the following day. The takeaway? Tweaking how you feel or talk to yourself about a bad night’s sleep, so that you view it less negatively, may genuinely improve your outlook and your mood. “On the contrary,” says lead author of the study, Dr Anita Lenneis, “if a sleep tracker tells you that you slept well, but you did not experience the night as such, this information may help you to reassess how well you actually slept. So, it may improve your subjective perception of last night’s sleep and thereby your overall next day’s wellbeing.”
START BRUSHING UP!
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