Woman & Home Feel Good You – September 2019

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wellbeing

Feel good tips and tricks

The strangest

sleeping habits

What do you get up to between the sheets?

Hillarys.co.uk have revealed the UK’s oddest

sleep behaviours... Is crafting the new yoga?

Research from The Great British Creativity Test has found that spending

time on creative pursuits, such as painting or crafting, can help people

manage stress. ‘Learning a new skill, whilst being good fun, is also really

good for your brain,’ says Dr Annabel Bentley. ‘Learning something new

helps improve your performance and allows you to learn more

efficiently.’ Here are some of the best to take up...

ORIGAMI

The peaceful paper-folding craft is

a great form of mindfulness, helping

to improve hand-eye coordination.

COLOURING

Not just for kids – colouring in

relaxes the part of the brain that

processes fear and anxiety, making

it a great activity to unwind.

KNITTING

A study by the Benson-Henry

Institute for Mind Body Medicine

found that knitting reduces your

heart rate by 11 beats per minute,

which has a range of health benefits.

The repetitive motion releases

happy hormone serotonin, helping to

lift your mood and even ease pain.

... of Brits would wait four

weeks before changing

their bed sheets. However,

Time4Sleep

found leaving

bedding for a

month leaves

you with more

bacteria than a

chimpanzee’s

sleeping nest!

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24%

10%

Acting out dreams 26%

Sleep eating 32%

Jolting awake from ‘falling’ 41%

Sleep talking 47%

Sleep

paralysis