Sleep Disorder: This simple exercise will help you fall asleep

Do you have problems falling asleep or do you keep waking up at night?

This simple exercise will help with insomnia.

More and more Germans suffer from a sleep disorder (insomnia).

According to a report by

Barmer health insurance

 , the number of medically diagnosed sleep disorders rose by 63 percent between 2006 and 2017.

About

3.8 percent of all employed

persons are affected

.

Women (5 percent) suffer more often than men (3.3 percent) from problems falling asleep and staying asleep.

The reasons they gave for their insomnia * included caring for small children and their partner's snoring.

Both affect women more often than men.

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Simple exercise will help you fall asleep

Do you toss from side to side at night, brooding over your day and what you need to do next?

You longingly wait for sleep, but it just doesn't want to come.

The next day, you feel weak, tired, and have trouble concentrating.

A simple exercise can help you fall asleep - and it's not strenuous at all.

Forget about valerian and calming teas!

You only need your own body

for this exercise

.

• Lie flat on your back on your mattress.

  Push the pillow aside for a long time.

• Bend your legs and push them towards your chest.

• Hold your knees with your arms and pull your legs even further towards your chest.

• Hold this position and concentrate on your breathing.

  Take several deep breaths in and out.

This simple exercise has several advantages: Your

spine is elongated

and

your

hips relax.

The deep breathing

reduces the heart rate and blood pressure

.

The exercise relaxes your body and mind and ensures that stress is relieved.

And stress is one of the main reasons we can't sleep.

This exercise works best if you do it regularly before you go to sleep.

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