{"id":15100,"date":"2020-07-07T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15100"},"modified":"2020-07-07T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:08:41","slug":"want-a-better-nights-sleep-be-more-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/want-a-better-nights-sleep-be-more-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Want A Better Night\u2019s Sleep? Be More Optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows optimistic people live a longer life. How come? One reason might be that they sleep better than pessimists.<\/p>\n<p>The probability of dealing with a sleep disorder like insomnia or sleep apnea is 70% less among optimistic people. Why are optimistic people getting a better night\u2019s sleep? Researchers say their cheery demeanor spills into other aspects of life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other studies have shown that optimists take more exercise, smoke less, and eat a healthier diet. On top of that, they have better strategies for coping with problems and experience less stress in challenging situations. All these factors could contribute to better quality sleep,&#8221; Jakob Weitzer from the Medical University of Vienna&#8217;s Division of Epidemiology who led the study that\u2019s published in the <em>Journal of Sleep Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to be more optimistic<\/h3>\n<p>The good news is that you can train yourself to be more optimistic. If you\u2019re looking to increase your positive vibes and decrease the negative ones, here are a few tips to get started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Believe you can be more optimistic<\/li>\n<li>Pick a few positive mantras to repeat when things get tough<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge your successes, even the small ones<\/li>\n<li>Pick a role model or two, research them, and try to mimic some of their qualities<\/li>\n<li>Stop yourself from thinking if one this goes wrong, everything will<\/li>\n<li>Get rid of negativity in your life, even negative people<\/li>\n<li>Stop following negative people on social<\/li>\n<li>Keep a gratitude journal and write in it regularly to remind yourself of what\u2019s around you<\/li>\n<li>Find solutions, don\u2019t wallow in problems<\/li>\n<li>Limit the amount of complaining you do<\/li>\n<li>Find a silver lining in a difficult time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By making a few changes in your life, you can turn your negative thoughts to positive ones. As a result, your optimism might just help you live a better, more restful, life. Is this something you\u2019ll consider trying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows optimistic people live a longer life. How come? One reason might be that they sleep better than pessimists. The probability of dealing with a sleep disorder like insomnia or sleep apnea is 70% less among optimistic people. Why are optimistic people getting a better night\u2019s sleep? Researchers say their cheery demeanor spills into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[693],"class_list":["post-15100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}