If you regularly get 6 hours sleep a night, does that mean you’re sleep deprived? If you get 9 hours sleep a night, are you getting too much sleep For the average person, it’s between 7 and 8 hours for an adult. But of course, who’s average? And it varies quite widely between people. So actually, the message we prefer now is to personalize your sleep We like to think of sleep as one of the three key pillars of health with exercise and diet. And by that we mean both physical health and mental health. And we’re probably with sleep now where we were with exercise and diet maybe 20 years ago. People suffering from chronic insomnia might hear talk of the potential health benefits of modifying sleep and roll their eyes, wishing they could just get any class of sleep at all. In the hour or two before bedtime, just write, make a list. Write five, ten things down that are worrying you, saying, ‘Look, I’m going to park them there. I’ll deal with them tomorrow. I’m going to wake up in the morning and look at my list and deal with them in the morning The good news is that – just like with exercise and diet – we can modify our sleep to get health benefits. But what if you can’t sleep? People suffering from chronic insomnia might hear talk of the potential health benefits of modifying sleep and roll their eyes, wishing they could just get any class of sleep at all.
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Friday, June 27, 2025