Why did you develop the Sleep Easily accessories?
I have dedicated 25 years of my
life to helping people sleep better. In addition to the Sleep Easily method I
developed, I encourage people to engage in behaviors (called sleep hygiene)
that support good sleep. Two of those steps are to have your sleeping
environment be dark and quiet. Using eyeshades and earplugs are an easy way to
have your room be dark and quiet. I created the Sleep Easily eyeshades and
earplugs to be the best on the market.
Why is it so important to get quality sleep while on-the-go?
While
good sleep has many long-term benefits, here are some of the benefits you will
experience immediately while you’re traveling.
Decreased: Stress,
anxiety, depression, anger, and irritability.
Improved:
Alertness, attention, memory, problem-solving and decision-making abilities,
productivity and energy, and quality of personal relationships.
For people planning a trip that spans time zones, how can they make
sure to prioritize sleep?
Most
people find traveling east more challenging to adjust to because at your
destination location, you will then be having to go to sleep hours earlier than
in the location you came from. Most people find traveling west easier because
at your destination location you go to sleep later than in the location you
came from and most find it easier to go to sleep later.
To
prepare: If you can, one night, a week before you travel east, go to bed 15
minutes earlier. Since 15 minutes is not a large time shift it is fairly easy
to adjust. The next night, go to be an additional 15 minutes earlier. By the
day of the trip, you will have shifted your bedtime almost two hours earlier.
Although that is not the complete time, you will shifted your body clock in the
right direction. You will have confidence that you can shift your body clock
more than you thought you could. The first night in your new time zone, see if
you can stay up a bit later, so your bedtime is not as large a shift from the
location from which you came. Then, over the next few nights, gradually go to
bed earlier.
Melatonin
can help you sleep so it is easier to fall asleep at an earlier time. Research
has shown that .5 – 1 mg. melatonin is the best dosage to be effective. More
than that can flood the brain and make you groggy the next morning.
Using sleep accessories like
earplugs, eyeshades and recordings can help you adjust to these time changes.
Eyeshades
Light can make it more difficult to
fall asleep and can awaken you too early. When you travel, your sleeping
environment is usually not completely dark. There are a few factors to look for
when getting eyeshades:
·
Total blocking of light. The Sleep Easily
eyeshades contour to comfortably fill the facial curve near the bridge of your
nose, making them very effective in blocking light. Most other eyeshades have a
gap near that facial curve.
·
Cupped design over eyes so the shades do not
touch eyelids of eyelashes. Sleep Easily eyeshades have that cupped design,
whereas many eyeshades are a flat design, so touch your eyelids.
·
Lightweight and comfortable. Sleep Easily
eyeshade are very lightweight. The material is soft and very comfortable. The
adjustable Velcro band makes the fit very comfortable.
Earplugs
There are a few types of earplugs:
·
Foam rubber cylinders. Most people find these
uncomfortable and the cylinder sticks out of your ear. Because of that, when
you sleep on your side the cylinder pokes in your ear.
·
Silicone. Most silicone earplugs are hard wax
and people find that to be uncomfortable.
·
Silicone putty. This is the Sleep Easily
earplug. The consistency is soft, like putty. That shapes to your ear so is
like having custom-fit earplugs. Sleep Easily earplugs are the most comfortable
earplugs available. We recommend you pull the earplug piece in half. The
smaller size shaping to your ear makes it so you then don’t even feel them in.
Earplugs are most commonly used to
reduce noise from external sources. However, there are two other functions that
can help you sleep more easily and deeply:
Using the Sleep Easily earplugs and
eyeshades can help you sleep more easily and deeply.
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