GET BETTER SLEEP BY ELIMINATING ALL ELECTRONICS FROM THE BEDROOM
Guss Hansen - Monday, August 26, 2019 Monday, August 26, 2019

In addition, it has recently been discovered by scientists that our chronic sleep deprivation or sleep loss is connected to these electronic devices being given free will in our sleep space. A study published in the journal Nature by Harvard Medical School by Prof. Dr. Charles A, Czeisler, M.D., ph.D, showed that the artificial blue light emitted from electronic devices such as smart phones, tablets activates arousing neurons within the brain, avoiding people from feeling sleepy or falling asleep.
Also, remaining tethered to technology up until bedtime and keeping devices in our sleeping environments resulting to high level access which do not only affects our ability to fall asleep but the quality of the sleep we get by affecting the body’s production of melatonin (the sleep inducing hormone). As long as the blue light argument is a focal point in the tech free bedroom movement, it is only better if we leave the bedroom for another which is only reserved for sleep.
• SWITCHING OFF THE COMPUTERS
After you must have removed all electronic devices from the bedroom, the next thing is to know when to switch off the computers. You simply power off the desktop or laptop and remove them from the bedroom.
It is also advisable that you clear out your electronic readers like your Kindle or Nook. These devices are small, easily put into the bed and can easily be a source of distraction. Assuming that you wake up in the night and start your computer to pass time, you lose the relationship between your bedroom and sleep. Rather, it is a place where you stay awake at night and browse the internet.
However, the exposure to low levels of light may affect your ability to fall asleep leading to insomnia.
• PUTTING YOUR PHONES IN ANOTHER ROOM TO CHARGE
Furthermore, it is better to leave your smart phones in another room when you go to bed. They are seen as a source of sleep disturbance in kids and adolescents with many of them chatting at night. if your smart phone sounds an alert of message, then it disrupts your sleep.
If it is possible, you shouldn’t have any smart phone in your bedroom instead put your phones in the sitting room to charge overnight.
• YOU WILL REDUCE YOUR RADIATION EXPOSURE
While there is no conclusion yet on the links between cell phones and cancer, the phones do emit a form of electromagnetic radiation that can be taken by the body tissues located close to the phone. Some studies have discovered that such transmissions were probably carcinogenic and that risk becomes far more relevant during the time you are with the phone.
The chances are low when the phone is disconnected from WIFI or turned off completely.
• YOU MIGHT HIT A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF JOMO
When you reach a technology hiatus, it makes it a lot easier to have at the present moment and forget all other stuffs going on in the world. Learning to stay negative to that regular link up gives you mental space to be with your own thoughts and provide some solitude before you hit the hay.
• GET A BETTER SLEEP
Just imagine about how many more Zzs you can log every night without your phone disrupting you from just how exhausted you feel. By setting a curfew with your phone, probably 30 minutes or 1 hour before going to bed and checking out accordingly, you give your brain the chance to slow down and cool down rather than stimulate it.
Do you usually find yourself very late at night, basking in the cool glow of your T.V or cell phone? If so, your sleep quality may be taking a hit. Numerous recent studies have discovered that these devices actually affect sleep from children and adults alike.
What makes this an issue are using electronics in the bedroom. Here are a few stats showing the pervasiveness of the issue;
• The National Sleep Foundation estimated at the 2014 Sleep in America poll that close to 90 percent of adults and 75 percent of kids has at least one electronic device in their rooms.
• Also, the National Sleep Foundation at the 2011 poll discovered that in the hour before bed; close to 95 percent of adults consistently use electronic devices and other technological stuffs.
• Growing children are more likely to use smart phones, play video games and use laptops while matured adults are more likely to use the Television.
• Few research polls also discovered that 2/3 of adults take their smart phones to the bed. About 90 percent between the ages of 18 to 29 do this.