5 Benefits of Sleep

It is essential for good mental health that you get enough quality sleep. Along with your body, sleep also has a great impact on your mental health. Adequate sleep improves the brain’s processing of emotional information. And lack of sleep can directly affect your brain’s positive emotional response.

Adults need 7 hours or more sleep which will be enough for their well-being and children needs 8 to 10 hour of sleep.

In this post, we will learn the five benefits of sleep.

1) Reduce Stress

Good and quality sleep helps in reducing your stress levels which ultimately improves your mood. And you’ll definitely enjoy a healthy balance of mental health if your mood is good and stress is waning. If your stress is less it will also help you in thinking clearly and perform better at the workplace or in school.

2) Lessen Anxiety Disorder

If you have sleep problems, chances are high that you suffer from an anxiety disorder. Poor sleep triggers anxiety and fear and makes it difficult for you to get proper sleep. Therefore, adequate sleep is essential to reduce the risk of anxiety.

3) Decerase the Risk of Depression

Poor sleep not only affects your health physically but also induces depression as the symptoms of depression and poor sleep are intertwined. Poor sleep quality can worsen depression levels if you suffer from depression.

Good sleep will help you fight depression in a better way and also reduce its risk.

4) Improves Memory

Poor sleep habits affect your memory. This is why after a bad night’s sleep you forget big details the next morning. Good sleep not only improves memory but also helps in absorbing new information and retaining it for a longer period of time.

5) Improves Attention

There are different processes affecting different corners of your brain while you are sleeping. If you don’t get enough sleep, your chances of getting frustrated, angry, and anxious will increase.

Good sleep will help you focus more clearly on one thing because lack of sleep affects your ability to deal with wide-ranging information. Whereas proper sleep will help many circuits in the brain to polish more precisely.

The Bottom Line

If you are looking for help to de-stress yourself from your busy daily life, AAF is always there for you. Our director, Anu, infuses courage with her out-of-box innovative ideas and inspires the community to lead a happy and fresh life. You can book sessions with us to start your life with a new perspective.

You can book your session with us at anu@anuaggarwalfoundation.org.