Sleep Your Way to Being Anxiety and Stress Free!
Can you actually eliminate stress and anxiety by sleeping? If you just take a nap does stress or anxiety just disappear? It would be nice to think so wouldn’t it?
Well don’t be alarmed, and don’t turn off your computer just yet. I will let you into a secret.
Stress and anxiety can be eliminated by sleeping. Not just any sleep, good sleep.
To understand this you need to know a few things about your sleep patterns. Firstly you need to know what happens to your brain when you sleep (how do you release your anxiety and stress) and secondly what happens to your body.
The Mind Changes
When you sleep you go through three brain wave patterns. When you are awake, you are in a Beta brain wave state. As soon as you close your eyes you enter Alpha, and then with time you go through Theta and eventually in a deep sleep you enter the Delta brain wave.
Each of these brain wave states has an anti stress and anxiety purpose…
The Alpha mind is where you dream. It is those colorful movies you play in your head. This is your mind working out all your problems of today or your past and trying to find solutions and answers to problems or question you have, it helps you release your anxiety and stress.
The more stress or anxiety you have, the longer it takes to go through Alpha and get to the Theta state.
In Theta your mind creates the still images, like photos. They tend to be in black and white. This is also your thought state.