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Sleep Tips!
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We have included several sleep tips below to help you get a better night's rest. You will not only have the anatomically correct pillows of the future, which can greatly help reduce tossing and turning, potential back pain, and other bodily discomforts, but you will also receive a great deal of information you need to help you achieve the overarching goal of better night's sleep.

Take your time and please do not forget, you can receive all of the following information and more with your Stasis Sleep Book© (if you choose, as it is an option when you check out), so you do not have to try to remember or write down all of these tips now. You can lean over to the nightstand, grab your book, and read about all kinds of information on the topic of sleep anytime you like.

We have broken down sleep tips into a few different sections to help keep things a little more easily locatable for you, as there is so much we want to share with you. Instead of making it one huge web page, we have broken tips into several pages. You can link to the different sections in the table of contents below. Have fun!

1. Know Thy Self
2. Things to Avoid
3. Bedroom Atmosphere (Ambiance)
4. Stress…Ahhhhhh!
5. Relaxation Techniques
6. Exercise: Treadmill it!
7. Site References For More Tips

Know Thy Self

One of the first and most fundamental things any of us can do to help achieve a better night's sleep is to know ourselves. At the risk of sounding overly philosophical, the old expression that every journey starts with a first step actually is not an accurate statement. How can we move forward in an efficient and appropriate way if we do not know where we stand now? Before the first step is made, we should know where we are today. If we are not aware of the point from which we start, then the chances of achieving our goal is highly diminished.

It only seems to make sense that we should know ourselves before all else.

In the Stasis Sleep™ Pillow Companion Guide© we can provide you with your Stasis Sleep™ pillows (while supplies last), we give you self-diagnostic tests to help you realize where you are today in terms of your sleep. Giving your self an honest and appropriate appraisal can help greatly. We also provide you with a sleep diary and sleep log, so that you can monitor your sleeping patterns/habits to help you along the way.

We believe this cannot be underestimated. Knowing where you are in terms of your own sleep habits and routines is an essential and integral aspect to getting a better night's sleep. Another aspect of great importance is to be properly informed about the topic of sleep, and you can read all about sleep on this web site, which will be entirely covered in your book. You can now take control of your own sleep!

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Things to Avoid

If you are having troubles falling asleep, there are some things you can do that can help you very quickly.

Reduce the levels of caffeine used throughout the day. Studies show that people who have insomnia already have a higher metabolic rate (typically 9%) than those who are sleeping normally. It would take about 4 cups of coffee to raise a normal sleepers metabolism to the same rate. From this metabolic indicator, although the person with insomnia does not feel wide awake and shows all the signs of not getting enough sleep, which you can read about in the sleep debt page of this site, we can see that a person who intakes caffeine actually on average is highly physiologically aroused. After all, caffeine is a stimulant!

The short of it…reduce the levels of caffeine intake throughout the day. Obviously, we are not going to say quit totally, but this would help as well greatly. Of course, the last thing you want to do is drink the caffeine within a few hours (three or more) before attempting to go to sleep.

List of items, both food and beverages, that may contain caffeine:

• Coffee - Brewed (drip or percolated), Instant, Many "decaffeinated" coffees
• Tea - Brewed (drip or percolated), Instant, Many "decaffeinated" coffees
• Cocoa
• Chocolate (Light, Dark, Baker's, etc.): Beverage or Food
  This includes hot chocolate milk.
• Most Sodas: Including "Diet" and "Clear" Sodas - Coke, Diet Coke, Mr. PIBB, RC Cola, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi, Canada Dry, and many others

Next, nicotine intake can have a dramatic affect on our ability to get a good night's rest. Just like caffeine, nicotine is a stimulant. Of course, smoking is the primary way of ingesting nicotine. Smoking can raise blood pressure, stimulate brainwave activity, and increase heart rate.

Studies have shown that smokers actually have greater difficulties falling asleep and wake more times during the night. It is possible the later is a symptom of withdrawal. And, when people have quit smoking after regularly smoking from 1 to 3 packs of cigarettes a day over at least a two year period of time, studies have found it is easier to fall asleep and sleep more soundly with less awakenings at night for those folks.

Obviously people are not going to just quit smoking, as most who have the habit realize how addictive it really can be. So, maybe lessen your smoking intake and only do it a certain points during the day. Try not to have any cigarettes close to bedtime and try, like the case with caffeine, to limit your usage to several hours before bedtime, which can help. If you want to quickly work toward getting a better night's sleep and you smoke cigarettes, then to quit smoking is one of the quickest ways to help your self achieve your goal.

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