Ergoflex blog
What a baby can teach you about sleep
07-05-2014You may have noticed that most babies are pretty good sleepers. We have and we want to be able to sleep like a baby. The phrase ‘sleeping like a baby’ exists for a good reason. When you look at most babies sleeping there is something special about their sleep, something that most of us adults...
Why not give Mum what she has always wanted
07-05-2014It’s is a precious commodity for any mother. Any new mum will tell you (and possibly without even being asked) how they miss it or wish they had more of it. Maybe it really is the perfect Mother’s Day gift.
5 rules to get sleeping faster
05-05-2014Lying in bed trying to get to sleep is a drag. The worst thing is that it is generally counter-productive. The more you try to get to sleep the harder it is to actually get to sleep! You become more stressed, you start thinking about all the things you have to do in the morning and you angst over how...
How to stay in the zone at work when you are exhausted
01-05-2014It happens to the best of us, you have got a big day at work and you are exhausted. You may have been up all night working on your presentation or you may have accidently got carried away at after work drinks, whatever the cause, you need a solution. You need to be at the top of your game, the last thing...
Want law-abiding kids? Get them sleeping more
29-04-2014Do you want your children to grow into law abiding adults? Of course you do. You want the best for your children. A new study has found that lack of sleep can actually contribute to delinquent behaviour in teens and young adults. All that time you have spent trying to get your teenager out of bed may...
Sleep time is when your brain does its daily cleanse
27-04-2014You will have heard the term brainwashed before but new research means that it may take on a new meaning. The term originally meant that someone had been persuaded or coerced to obey another, it has been the subject of many books and movies and a number of totalitarian regimes have used it to control...
Kids with irregular bed times are more likely to be reckless
25-04-2014Making your children go to bed is one of the most impossible tasks, from their first years all the way through to their teen years, trying to enforce a regular bed time can be extremely difficult. Recent research shows that it is actually more important than we knew to make sure that your children have...
The dangers of oversleeping
23-04-2014We all know that not getting enough sleep can be a real killer, but are you aware that sleeping too much can also be deadly? It may seem crazy, most of us would kill to have an extra hour or two in bed in the morning, but a huge research project has found that oversleeping, while not as deadly in so...
How to have horrible sleep
21-04-2014In the spirit of contrariness, we want to tell you how to have a horrible sleep! Why, because if you disobey the following rules, you will have a lovely sleep and we are sure that if you are struggling to get a good night’s sleep then you could do with a bit of a laugh... though you may be so tired...
How sleep locks in learning
18-04-2014For many years we saw sleep as a way of ‘recharging our batteries’ and not much more, but boy has that changed. We now know that sleep is an incredibly complex phenomenon with a wide array of vital functions and purposes that are critical for our overall physical and mental wellbeing. Take...
How caffeine kills your sleep
16-04-2014We all know that caffeine and sleep are not a good mix but new research suggests that it is worse than we previously suspected. Yes it is bad news for all those coffee drinkers out there, and there are a lot of us. In the past the general rule of thumb was that you should not ingest any caffeine four...
How sleep makes you a better person to do business with
14-04-2014There is a whole mythos that surrounds work and sleep. The general thrust is that you need to sacrifice sleep for success. This idea can be seen in phrases like “burning the candle at both ends” and “you snooze you lose”. Anyone who has started at a new job in a big company knows...
