Ergoflex blog
Do successful people sleep less?
31-03-2015You will have heard the myth over and over again. Often it is trotted out by management as a justification for working their team overtime. The belief that successful people sleep less is well entrenched and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. The problem is that while there are undoubtedly successful...
What is sleep drunkenness and how can I combat it?
27-03-2015Have you ever been woken up and reached out for the alarm clock only to find that you are trying to turn your book off? Or did you go to the bathroom and try to brush your teeth with eyeliner instead of tooth paste? Sounds like you may have experienced ‘sleep drunkenness’. This is not drunken...
How to stop snoring
25-03-2015Do you snore? No doubt if you do your partner has let you know (am I right, men? And yes, it is mostly men who snore and mostly their partners who tell them all about it!). Then you will want to take care of it, if for no other reason than to calm the storm. The thing with snoring is that it is not usually...
How can I change my bedtime routine for better sleep?
19-03-2015Most of us need more sleep. It is a fact. The modern world is great for a lot of things but sleep sure isn’t one of them. Before we had things like electric lighting and 9 hour work days most people slept more. Rughly a third of all adults in the developed world are chronically tired, which is...
How to get the perfect sleep
17-03-2015It 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....
How can I get sick less often?
15-03-2015No one likes getting sick. It holds you back from your life, from your work and it can range from unpleasant to downright awful feeling. You only have to open a magazine or turn on the TV to be exposed to a million and one different elixirs and potions that promote good health but rather than wasting...
The problem with scientific research about bed sharing
09-03-2015There is a huge amount of contention regarding whether parents should sleep in the same bed as their newborns. On one side of the argument are those who believe that it creates a risk of smothering and sleep problems while on the other side are those who think that it not only helps parents to bond with...
What is sleep paralysis and why is it so scary?
06-03-2015You may never have heard of sleep paralysis before but even if you have never suffered from it before in your life you will certainly have recognise the widespread impact it has had on our culture. In fact, it is fair to say that of all the different sleep disorders, sleep paralysis has had the...
What natural supplements can help you sleep?
02-03-2015Many of us will go through periods in life where we struggle to sleep. For some it is just a passing blip while for others it can be more of a chronic condition. Often after a while people feel like they need to resort to taken sleeping medication to help them but while this may provide some temporary...
How can I wake up better in the morning?
25-02-2015The way you wake up in the morning can impact your entire day. Some mornings you spring out of bed ready for the day, others you need to be dragged kicking and screaming from the bed. Some mornings you wake feeling refreshed, your brain firing on all cylinders, other mornings you wake feeling like you...
Should You Buy a Mattress Online?
20-02-2015Your mattress is the piece of household furniture that you use the most. Forget about your couch or sofa, forget about your kitchen table, you hardly spend any time using these compared to your bed. Most people spend up to a third of their lives in their beds making it by far and away the most used...
Do you work in a windowless office? It might be the reason you can not sleep at night.
17-02-2015Most of us have to spend the majority of our days in the office and those offices often have little to no natural light. The modern workspace is often designed around achieving flow and maximising inter-worker synergies rather than letting you see the outside world. In many designs the outside world...
