Does Resting Your Eyes Good When You Can’t Sleep?

        With the increasing competition and multi-tasks in modern society, people suffer from more and more pressure in daily life. It causes that people find hard to fall asleep and cannot have a good mental attitude. Actually having a break at noon is a good way to allow you to arouse your body and mentality, but you may not able to due to the outside circumstance. Therefore, many people would say resting your eyes is a way of sleeping as well. So rest your eyes is as good of a trick as a quick nap? And What to do when not getting sleep?

        Although only closing your eyes cannot make you experience the exact sleeping time, but it still does good for you. Closing your eyes could clam down your mind and help your muscle and organs relaxed. That’s why most of people make it as true suggestion and call it “quiet wakefulness”.

        So do you know about the advantages of resting your eyes to get to sleep?

        First of all, resting your eyes is to tell your body that you are safe, and you can keep all your mind away from attention and thought. When you are awake, your brain is continuously working, instead when you close your eyes, your neuron can be quiet and pressure relieved for some time, even though it won't be total quiet.

        Secondly, resting your eyes is a resetting for your overactive brain. It can increase your alertness, improves your mood and stimulates your creativity and mental clarity. Especially in schools or workplace, resting your eyes for a short time at noon may make big difference. You could get power from resting your eyes, and it is helpful to keep your mind fresh and have a clear thinking in the afternoon.

        However, resting your eyes cannot exactly instead of sleep. Because sleep provides us necessary functions that other behaviors cannot offer. For example, sleep could help us overcome sickness and keep healthy, repair and maintain our cell system, and improve our memory etc.. Therefore, resting your eyes is not a long-period solution for you. If you have some trouble in sleep, you could try these activities before go to bed. Such as reading, soft bed yoga, meditation, listening soft music and so on. These activities help you relax your mind.

        After reading through this passage, hope you notice the importance of resting your eyes to get a break. And hope these tips to get to sleep is useful for you.