Beauty of Sleep

In the olden days, people tends to sleep after 9pm or 10pm. They gets up early and some would start the morning with jogging, "tai chi" or just meditate for 30 minutes before starting the day. Then, having their breakfast as a start of the day. Their morning starts at 5am until noon time, resting and having their lunch. After that, again, continue with the task for the day and ends by 5pm. Family is the priority and they work to feed the family.

However, as time passes, things are all changing. In this new centuries, people tends to sleep after 11pm or some might only sleep when the clock is showing past midnight. Then, waking up at 7am, rushing to get ready for work. Breakfast remains as words or just another need to take meal. Exercise in the morning is far beyond the goals to start the day. Reaching the office just few seconds before the bells ring. The most common trend is breakfast in front of the computer. Exposing ourselves in front of the monitor for few hours until noon time. After having lunch, again, exposing ourselves into the heat of the monitors. As time pases, people tends to forgotten about value of family and would work overtime in completing the task at work or for extra OT pay. Reaching home at 8pm, having dinner and again, exposing the eye in front of the monitor or TV. Some might spend their nights in the pubs clubbing or simply sitting at the coffee shop, having some drinks with friends.

We always question why in olden days, people tends to have long life while the life spans of human life is getting shorter now. Some key rules here:

Olden Days :
1. Sleep early wake up early
2. Morning exercise & proper breakfast is majority task
3. Resting after work instead of clubbing or burden the body with electrical connection

NOW:
1. Sleep late, waking up late, rushing for work
2. Morning exercise & proper breakfast is just minority task
3. Time is short, thus more activities after work without resting

Anyone sees why people in olden days live longer?

Sleep is very important. In a research stated in SparkPeople, most of us now is taking less than 7 hours sleep a day. The average needed time for a person to sleep is 8 hours. Thus, the body is lack of resting. Let me use a simple scenario, handphones. Everyday we use handphones. After a certain stage, we need to charge the handphone in order to keep it 'alive'. If we charge them 4 hours instead of the required 5 hours, the handphone would lasted less than expected. After a while, the lifespan of the handphones would get shorter and shorter resulting in purchasing new handphone. This is what our body is except we cannot buy new body to replace our body.

Some people have insomnia or I can say difficulties in sleeping. Previously, I use to had difficulty to wake up early. However, after a month of aerobics, I started to have the energy each time I wokes up. Breakfast is a necessity for me as I need breakfast to keep my energy into the maximum. One way to overcome insomnia is by exercising. Exercise is a way to boost up the energy in our body to the fullest.

What I want to say here is that to lead a healthy life, SLEEP is very important. SLEEP allows our body to rest and re-charge.