Going To Bed Angry Or Worried Is A Bad Habit

Going to bed worried or angry is a bad habit. Yet people do this often. Most people do it almost without thinking. When your emotions are in control, you often hide your head in the pillow and decide to think about it tomorrow. Unfortunately, sleeping on it rarely solves a problem, which means it will still be there when you wake up.

Who has not been through this? For example, you can argue with your partner, and instead of resolving the disagreement, you resort to accusations and other unfortunate words, in addition to the kind of silence that results in sleeping back to back, both wrapped in childish pride and disagreement. Thus, it is impossible to get a good night’s sleep. Maybe you can not sleep at all!

Not getting a good night’s sleep always leads to a tough morning because you are exhausted and cannot think clearly. In such a state, it is very difficult to find the courage and ingenuity to resolve disagreements with your better half. This is because going to bed angry is bad for your health.

Recent studies also indicate that even if you rest for a few hours, sleeping with negative emotions affects your brain. Keep reading for and find out more about this.

Going to bed angry is bad for you

Going to bed angry makes you wake up in a very bad mood. This is because you are actually losing a great deal of your cognitive potential. In other words, processes such as memory, reflective capacity and creativity. In fact , the inner peace you need to actively face problems proactively disappears.

Sherlock Holmes said that proper rest is the solution to any problem. According to experts, such good advice is only true if you can let your worries lie. It is definitely healthy to lie on your pillow with the clear goal of sleeping.

If you lie down under stress, under pressure, anxious or angry, you will only end up intensifying the discomfort. This is mainly because a negative emotional state not only makes it difficult to get a good night’s sleep, but it affects your brain as well.

Your brain and negative emotions at night

Dr. Yunzhe Liu at Beijing Normal University conducted a study in collaboration with University College London on this topic. “I wanted to know the effect of going to bed angry or worried,”  she said. She discovered that the one thing that really affects sleep is the way you deal with emotions and worries.

Through magnetic resonance imaging, researchers observed that sleeping angry, worried and stressed changes different areas of the brain. It seems to be a cumulative effect, which means you do not notice it after arguing with your spouse and then go to bed angry and sleep in isolation. The most important changes occur when this behavior becomes a common practice.

The same goes for stress and constant worry. Going to bed with such a negative imprint on a weekly basis changes your brain in several ways:

• The hippocampus, a structure related to your memory and emotions, becomes smaller.
• When you are angry , the activity of your frontal lobe decreases, which is responsible for rational thinking and tasks to be performed. This is because your mind assumes the classic tunnel vision. In other words, you see only a part of reality. Thus, you are not able to relativize. Therefore , your strategies for solving problems in a more reflective and creative way fail.

• Your memory begins to fail because your brain cannot perform its tasks effectively during restless night hours. In fact, it becomes clear in the difficulty of consolidating new memories.

Do not go to bed angry and put the problems in bed

Has anyone advised you to “never go to bed angry or worried”? However, there are times when problems are quite oppressive and your mind is filled with knots you can not detach yourself from. So what can you do to keep such tension away from the pillow?

The first thing you can do is prevent all that tension from building up. The problems that arise will soon be solved. You must also confront the disagreements with your better half or with another person immediately. The things you leave behind tomorrow do not always resolve themselves. In fact , they become even more complicated in most cases.

Ideally, let your body and mind rest free from negative emotions. Techniques such as relaxation, meditation and deep breathing can help you. In addition, you can take a hot bath or enjoy a good book that can make you fall asleep.

A peaceful mind sleeps better and also helps you live your life to the fullest, in a healthier way.