Unfiltered Wellbeing

  Sleep quality isn’t just about getting lots of deep sleep. Explore the three Rs and how light, deep and REM sleep work together as part of the sleep journey. Simple steps to improve sleep naturally. In recent years, Sleep has become a hot topic and the subject of health news and internet bio-hackers who are trying to monitor and perfect sleep-related behaviours and metrics. But before we jump headlong into the topic and try to improve things, it helps to understand what “good sleep” actually means physiologically speaking. Sleep is not a single unconscious state. It is an active, changing, cyclical process made up of distinct neurological stages that ebb and flow throughout the night. Each sleep stage contributes towards the restoration and renewal of the body and how we will feel when we wake in the morning. A little grogginess (sleep inertia) is normal in the first few minutes after waking, but within 10-15 minutes (and without caffeine), ideally, we should feel pretty alert,...