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What is a good sleep?

You know that sleep is vital to your physical and mental health. But, how can you tell whether you’re truly sleeping well? Here are some statements about your sleep. If these apply to you, it’s a good sign that your sleep is on track.
• You fall asleep within 15-20 minutes of lying down to sleep.
• You regularly sleep a total of seven to nine hours in a 24-hour period.
• While in your bed, your sleep is continuous—you don’t have long periods of lying awake when you wish to be sleeping.
• You wake up feeling refreshed, as if you’ve “filled the tank.”
• You feel alert and are able to be fully productive throughout the waking hours (note, it’s natural for people to feel a dip in alertness during waking hours, but with healthy sleep, alertness returns).
• Your partner or family members do not notice any disturbing or out of the ordinary behavior from you while you sleep, such as snoring, pauses in breathing, restlessness, or otherwise nighttime behaviors.

Ways to reduce stress in day to day life

By careful editing of your life, and changing certain habits, you can eliminate most (not all) sources of stress in your life. Here’s how:
1. Identify stressors. This is the most important step of all, as identifying the things that stress you out in your life is the first step towards eliminating them.
2. Eliminate unnecessary commitments Edit brutally, and take steps today to remove the ones that stress you out the most.
3. Multitasking. Having multiple tasks going on at the same time might seem productive, but in actuality it slows us down and it stresses us out in the meantime. Learn to single-task.
4. Slow down. Instead of rushing through life, learn to take things slow. Enjoy your food, enjoy the people around you, and enjoy nature. This step alone can save tons of stress.
5. Relax throughout the day. It’s important to take mini-breaks during your workday. Stop what you’re doing, get up and stretch, walk around, drink some water.
6. Exercise. Exercising helps relieve the stress buildup, it gives you some quiet time to contemplate and relax, and just as importantly, it makes you more fit.
7. Eat healthy. This goes hand-in-hand with exercise as a stress prevention method, of course. Become healthier and a major source of stress will disappear