When You Sleep Better - Feel Better

Posted: February 17th, 2017

  Sleep is an important and necessary part of our daily lives. Harvard researchers have found that sleep plays a critical role in our ability to learn and consolidate memory, to keep a healthy weight and healthy metabolism, to stayalertand therefore safe during the day, to keep our hearts healthy and our bodies disease-free, and to enhance our mood avoiding conditions such as depression.   What do you do when you just can't get enough sleep no matter what you do? Massage therapy can help. Instead of relying on prescription medications, many people find insomniac relief through healthy living options such as massage. Massage helps by reducing anxiety and pain in the body, which makes it easier to relax when it comes time to sleep. It also helps promote relaxation, which is vital for a good night's sleep.  Massage therapy has been proven to improve the quality of sleep as well as sleep duration in patients as seen in research conducted by the American Massage Therapy Association. Massage works the muscles and the mind together to help train the body to find a restorative place on a regular basis where deep relaxation and rest can occur. Massage works in part because it limits the neurotransmitter that works with pain so that the body can more easily find relaxed states. This makes it possible to get the sleep that you need.   Sleep habits play a role in your ability to get shut-eye as well and massage therapy can help encourage you to adopt healthy living sleep habits. These sleep habits include keeping electronics away from the bed, using the bed only for rest and sex, and going to bed at the same time each night. Increasing exercise and eating properly also helps with sleep. By combining healthy habits for sleep and massage therapy, you can once again get the rest that you deserve.