Improving Your Sleep

Morning
21 min read
A Guide to Transforming Yourself into a Morning Person
From night owl to early bird, here are our best tips and tricks to get you waking up every morning refreshed and ready for the day ahead.
Yoga
4 min read
Yoga for Better Sleep: Restful Nights with Ancient Practices
Downward-facing dog, cat's pose and warrior II. Of course, we've all heard of these positions, or asanas if we're being fancy - the ancient Indian spiritual and physical practice of yoga has definitely made an appearance on the pop culture scene these days.
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8 min read
Why Rest and Sleep Are Essential for Fitness and Recovery
For anybody who engages in regular, intensive bouts of exercise, the need for rest and recovery is obvious. And yet, from speaking both to friends and looking
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3 min read
Transform Your Sleep: 4 Yoga Poses for Better Rest
The health benefits of yoga truly are innumerable; the gentle exercise can improve muscle tone as well as flexibility, but the benefits aren't just physical.
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6 min read
Does Warm Milk Help You Sleep? Unpacking the Science
You've seen it in countless films and tv shows - a humble glass of warm milk is (supposedly) all you need to drift off into a good night's sleep - but does the cliché hold any truth? Here's what we know about why humans drink milk, and the potential sleep benefits it possesses.
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2 min read
The Positive Affect of Chocolate on Sleep
Chocolate is one of the nation's favourite treats, but could it be more than a nice treat a couple times a week? Could it even have a positive affect on your sleep?
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3 min read
How Replacing Coffee With Green Tea Helps You Sleep
Reducing your coffee intake? Instead of skipping caffeine all together, try drinking something with a lower caffeine content, like green tea.
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4 min read
Super Foods to Boost Your Sleep Quality and Restfulness
The foods we consume have a huge impact on our health, in particular our energy levels. In order to achieve a healthy sleep, we need to consume healthy meals, including all the necessary food groups to achieve a balanced diet.
lettuce
7 min read
Lettuce as a Miracle Cure For Sleep - Does It Work?
Lettuce has been making waves on the internet recently for its supposed link to providing good quality sleep. In particular, lettuce water is being hailed
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2 min read
Better Sleep Through Gut Health: Tips for Restful Nights
There's nothing better than a good night’s sleep, that feeling of satisfaction when you wake in the morning feeling refreshed, body and mind alert, ready to take on the day. Realistically, how often do you wake up feeling like you've had a great night’s sleep?
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5 min read
Do Bananas Help You Sleep? Discover Their Bedtime Benefits
Bananas are considered a staple of the "five-a-day" diet - one of the prescribed fruits and vegetables recommended by health experts to maintain a healthy lifestyle. If you think of "health food" - a banana is probably the first image that pops into your brain.
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10 min read
How Detoxing Can Improve Sleep and Cognitive Function
The benefits of detox related to walking-time cognition and improved sleep. It’s good to start this conversation with a little break down of what the detox process is, and to immediately debunk the idea that it’s a fad or diet
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4 min read
The Ritual of Bathing
Elevating cleanliness, a needed part of your routine, into something more spiritual, can have lasting impact. Here are five simple ways you can elevate your bath time into a ritual bath.
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4 min read
Can't Sleep After a Scary Movie? Here's What to Do
Ahorror movie with friends may seem like a good idea at the time - a fun thrill ride at the cinema - until you get home that night. When your adrenaline is going after watching a film, it is easy for your imagination to run wild.
Makeup
9 min read
What Happens When You Sleep With Makeup On
Taking your makeup off is the last thing you want to do after a long day. The thought of getting up to take makeup off when you're tired enough to fall asleep seems like a mammoth task.
Allergies
8 min read
How to Sleep Better With Allergies at Night
Allergies affect approximately 20% of the UK population. For some, an allergy is a year-round experience that needs to be dealt with through medication and cleanliness.
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4 min read
Best Podcasts to Listen to for a Relaxing Bedtime Routine
Winding down before bed can be difficult. Sometimes I like to put on a film I’ve watched a lot, or read a good book. However, sometimes all that does is wake me up even more, especially with all the lights beaming directly into my eyes.
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4 min read
Rethinking Sleep: The Battle Between Rest and Success
The famed American rock band The Beach Boys were never renowned for highly-intellectualised popular music.
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3 min read
5 Reasons to Add Meditation to Your Bedtime Routine
Bedtime routines should be kept sacred, and as we wrote in ‘Aromatherapy And Your Bedtime Routine: 5 Reasons Why You And Your Children Should Try It’, you should do what you can to improve your mood and sleep cycle.
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4 min read
Wake Up Call: The Truth About Your Snooze Button's Impact
Chronic snoozers out there, be warned! The snooze button may be doing you more harm than good. The majority of us are accustomed to setting an alarm before we turn in for the night.
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5 min read
How to Sleep with Lower Back Pain: Best Tips and Solutions
According to the NHS, up to 80% of us will struggle with lower back pain at some point in our lives. While that statistic can be somewhat depressing.
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6 min read
Finding the Sleeping Position that Works Best for You
What sleeping position do you usually find yourself in before falling asleep? For many people, we have a go-to position that feels most comfortable for us in order to drift off.
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5 min read
Children's Bedroom Interior Design Tips for a Dreamy Space
The child’s bedroom is the one space in your house where you don’t have to worry about trends and longevity when designing a space. Kids grow up so quickly that it’s best to think short term
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3 min read
A Sleepy Safety Guide to Being Bedroom Buddies With Your Pet
It can be difficult to say no to your pet giving you those big eyes at bedtime. Many dogs and cats love to give their owner company while they're asleep - and for good reason.
Sleep Utopia
5 min read
What's Your Sleep Utopia? - The Best Sleeping Environments
Each of us have our own version of utopia or imagined place where everything is tantamount to perfection. Perhaps you long for Thomas More’s radical conception
Feng Shui
5 min read
Improve Sleep with Feng Shui: Simple Tips for Better Energy
When we're down on our luck, or feel like we need a little more oomph in our lives, we make changes. Be it in our diets, how we choose to interact with people, or even with regards to religion, we'll change a few things around with the hope that it improves our lives on the whole.
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3 min read
The Importance of Darkness for Sleep: Benefits of Eye Masks
Darkness is as essential to good quality sleep as light is for wakefulness and alertness in the daytime. Levels of melatonin, the body’s natural sleep hormone, rise as light levels fall during the early evening, signalling to the body and brain that it is time to sleep.
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6 min read
Scientists Discover The Best Sleep Time For Cardiac Health
Finding the perfect time to regularly fall asleep at has long been thought of as essential for our health. Adults are recommended to sleep around 7-9 hours per night, according to science.
Sleep
7 min read
Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder: Q&A with Dr. Alanna Hare
Difficulties getting to sleep can be worrying and stressful, both for the individual experiencing the sleep problem, and for their families and partners. The first thing to understand is that sleep changes during childhood and adolescence (and indeed, continues to change during adulthood).
Science of Sleep
8 min read
The Science of Sleep: Insights from Wallace Mendelson
The history of humanity can indeed, be characterised as one of injustice, violence and bloodshed. However, we often forget that our history is also one, distinguished by countless discoveries that have each dramatically improved our quality of life.
Alice Gregory
8 min read
Why Sleep Matters: Insights from Professor Alice Gregory
Sleep plays a crucial role in our everyday lives. The latest research tells us that it's essential for our learning, memory, mental health and physical well-being, and yet we tend to only think about it when it's proving a struggle.
Sleep Clinic
6 min read
What to Expect During Your First Visit to a Sleep Clinic
For most of us, sleep problems are short-lived and, whilst frustrating and exhausting when they occur, can often quickly be put right by careful attention to our sleep environment, relaxation and winding down, and a regular sleep/wake schedule.
Smell
9 min read
The Impact of Smell on Sleep Quality: Best Essential Oils for Better Sleep
Discover how smell affects sleep quality and explore the best essential oils like lavender, chamomile, and bergamot for deeper, more restful sleep naturally.
Sleep Spray
9 min read
Does Sleep Spray Work? A Complete Guide to Better Sleep
Discover if sleep sprays really work, the science behind them, and the best calming scents to help you fall asleep faster and improve sleep quality.
close up of milk splash
6 min read
Does Warm Milk Help You Sleep? Unpacking the Science
You've seen it in countless films and tv shows - a humble glass of warm milk is (supposedly) all you need to drift off into a good night's sleep - but does the cliché hold any truth? Here's what we know about why humans drink milk, and the potential sleep benefits it possesses.
Close up of mouth of woman about to swallow tablet
6 min read
Does Magnesium Help You Sleep?

Magnesium (Mg) is a chemical element frequently listed as an essential benefit for good health and lifestyle by health experts...

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4 min read
Got a Headache? Here’s How to Sleep Better and Improve It
Aheadache and sleep have a complicated relationship. Getting a few hours rest is not necessarily a quick fix. Headaches can be caused by lack of sleep through tiredness and fatigue.
Sleep
10 min read
How to Sleep Better at Night: 7 Proven Tips for Deep, Restful Sleep
Struggling to fall asleep? Discover 7 proven ways to improve sleep quality naturally. Learn how to reduce stress, build a bedtime routine, and create the perfect sleep environment.
night shift
3 min read
Mastering the Night Shift: Tips for a Healthy Sleep Routine
For most people, a typical day of work begins when the sun comes up and ends when it goes back down again
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5 min read
How Blue Light can Provide a Great Nights Sleep - Luminette Review
Very futuristic, was my first thought. At initial glance, the Luminette looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. If you've ever spent time in a gaming arcade
AYO
8 min read
AYO Review: Boost Sleep and Energy with Blue-Light Tech
Revolutionary technology based on Nobel Prize-winning mechanisms that help you sleep better.” It’s not everyday you find yourself reviewing a product with a description like that.
Ocushield
17 min read
Ocushield Anti-Blue Light Screen Protector Review: A Small Change for Calmer Evenings and Better Sleep
Read our in-depth Ocushield anti-blue light screen protector review. Discover how blue light affects sleep, eye strain and whether Ocushield is worth buying.
White Noise
21 min read
Best White Noise Sounds to Enhance and Improve Your Sleep
Discover the best white noise sounds for sleep, including fan noise, rain, ocean waves, rainforest sounds and pink noise. Learn how calming sleep sounds can help light sleepers relax, unwind and sleep more peacefully.
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3 min read
Best Apps to Help You Fall Asleep Quickly and Peacefully
With the whole wide world of tech sleep solution ahead of you, in can be hard to choose. Here are four apps that will help you get to sleep.
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4 min read
Dodow: A Compact Solution for Insomnia and Stress Relief
When we heard that the Dodow, a digital sleep lamp from France was created by insomniacs, we just knew we would have to try it. It already has more than 60,000 users. It arrives boxed, with clear, easy to understand instructions.
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3 min read
The Benefits of Keeping a Sleep Diary for Better Health
Keeping a sleep diary may seem old-fashioned at first. In the modern age, we are used to capturing our day through taking photographs, social media posts, etc, rather than diary. Many of us prefer screens over using pen and paper.
breathing
6 min read
Relaxing Breathing Patterns for Sleep: 3 Proven Techniques to Fall Asleep Faster
Struggling to sleep? Discover relaxing breathing patterns like the 4-7-8 method and military technique to reduce anxiety and fall asleep faster tonight.
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3 min read
The Military Sleep Technique That's Taking Over TikTok
The military runs on a strict schedule that requires a lot of energy throughout the day. To carry this out, plenty of good quality sleep needs to be in that packed schedule. In order to sleep well, a fail-safe sleep routine is required.
Placebo Sleep
3 min read
The Placebo Sleep Effect: Conditioning for Better Sleep
Enter: “placebo sleep”, as coined by the Journal of Experimental Psychology. Psychologists at Colorado College conducted a study wherein they assessed 50 underg
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5 min read
The 'Shifting' Trend on TikTok: Does It Affect Sleep?

Table of contents What do we mean by 'shifting'? Shifting on TikTok Is shifting the same as lucid dreaming? What...

Insomnia
4 min read
Embracing Acceptance Therapy: A Journey Through Insomnia
When insomnia first struck me back in my 30’s, around the same time as my son was born three months prematurely so I was constantly on the alert to what was happening with my son, I deployed everything to try to help me sleep;
ASMR
4 min read
ASMR: The Massive Phenomena on a Better Nights Sleep
Many of us listen to anything and everything to get to sleep. Podcasts, radio programmes - we just seem to find the mumbling of other persons’ voices comforting.
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6 min read
Mastering Napping: Best Techniques and Tips for Optimal Rest
A power nap is highly tempting when the our to-do lists are long and we have a break to utilise. However, naps can be a gamble.
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3 min read
The Best Napping Locations that Transforms your Sleep
Take it from someone who prides herself on the fact that she can sleep anytime, anywhere. Be it a brightly lit room, a thunderstorm outside, or even a Beyoncé concert, give me a flat surface and something resembling a pillow and I'll be out within minutes.
Napping
7 min read
The Power of Napping: Boosting Productivity & Well-Being
You're perhaps sitting in a meeting, attending an event or simply sitting at your desk, desperately trying to get on with your work, but you almost feel powerless in preventing yourself from closing your eyes and dozing off.
coffee
5 min read
Maximise Productivity with Coffee Naps: Boost Rest & Energy
While it’s already been proven that a 10 or 20-minute nap has profound positive effects on productivity (and personal well-being), adding a coffee has long been suggested to make the power nap even more effective.
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4 min read
6 Best Considerations When Buying Sleepwear For Travel
One of the most practical sleep aids that you can take travelling with you is a good set of sleepwear as you need it anyway and it doesn’t take up extra room in
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6 min read
Best Ways for Better Sleep When You Travel
Nothing can upset your sleep schedule quite like stepping on a plane and jetting off to a foreign land — even if it’s for fun.
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4 min read
Conquering Jet Lag: Tips for a Smoother Time Zone Transition
Jet lag can massively disrupt your sleep schedule for several days or even weeks. Adjusting to a new time zone makes you feel tired during the day and make it more difficult to fall asleep at night.
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3 min read
Jet Lag Tips: How to Minimise Disruption & Enjoy Your Travel
Jet lag can massively disrupt your sleep schedule for several days or even weeks. Adjusting to a new time zone makes you feel tired during the day and make it more difficult to fall asleep at night.