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Am I getting enough sleep?
05-06-2015It seems to be a sad fact of life that one of the most important things any of us can do for our general health and wellbeing is something that many of us do not get enough of, something that almost half the adult population are lacking in: a good night’s sleep. Hang on a second, is it not a bit...
Why do we need sleep?
01-06-2015It is a fundamental question, one that has long gone unanswered, or at least not correctly answered. People have come up with many different reasons for why we need to sleep, from the sensible to the stupid. Here are five theories on why we sleep.
Why do we dream?
28-05-2015Dreams form a central yet amorphous and often hidden part of our lives. We all dream, even if many do not remember them. During that third of our lives we spend asleep, we will go through REM sleep where our brains suddenly light up and we go into an intense state of dreaming. But it is not just when...
What happens to our brain when we sleep?
19-05-2015Sleep is a conundrum. We all do it every night (or at least should), yet for something that occupies a third of our lives we do not spend anywhere near as long thinking about it as we would anything else that took up that much time. The reason for this is obvious, when we are asleep we are not really...
Staff sickness and their sleeping habits
13-05-2015Managing staff is one of the trickiest things about running your own business. You can calculate everything else, but the human factor makes your staff one of the biggest unknowns in business. Just when you think everything is ticking along fine one of them goes through a messy breakup or gets sick....
Ergoflex Australia Receives Gold Trusted Merchant Accreditation from Feefo
07-05-2015Happy customers vote Ergoflex Australia one of the best in service and product Ergoflex Australia received the Feefo Gold Trusted Merchant Accreditation 2015, thanks to the overwhelmingly positive customer feedback that the company received from customers via Feefo, The Global Feedback Engine. To...
7 Interesting & Fun Facts About Sleepwalking
04-05-2015Sleepwalking is pretty crazy when you think about it, when we are asleep the most movement the majority of us do is to roll over and hog the blankets, but some people do more, a lot more. Some will get up and walk around, opening doors and wandering around the house. Those are the mild sleepwalkers....
Does sleep change when you age?
19-04-2015You are getting older... it is a sad fact of life. Until they find the fountain of youth or some other elixir that is able to keep us eternally young we will just keep getting older, second by second, hour by hour, day by day. There are many things that change as you age, you get wiser (hopefully!),...
How can I get better sleep when pregnant?
14-04-2015Pregnancy is one of the most important times in a women’s life. It is a time when you need to be getting as much sleep as possible, for you and for the new life growing inside you. But the problem is that sleeping when you are pregnant can be incredibly difficult. There are all the hormonal changes...
How to get the perfect night's sleep
10-04-2015It is almost like a riddle, ‘what is so important that when you get it you don’t think about it, but when you don’t get it then all you can think about is it?’ Sleep! If you are sleeping well each night then you will barely think about it, it is just something you do each night....
What would happen if we did not need to sleep anymore?
08-04-2015By now you will know that you spend around a third of your life asleep, if you have read any of our blog posts you will be informed of this fact, even if you hadn’t already gleaned it for yourself at some point! Obviously for us this is a huge fact, our business is sleep and we believe that people...
How can I improve my motor learning skills?
02-04-2015Motor learning is not teaching your car its ABCs or how to do division, it is the process of learning new physical skills and reflexes. More technically it can be considered “a change, resulting from practice or a novel experience, in the capability for responding. It often involves improving the...
