A healthy lifestyle! with a solid reason!!

Sleep is important to everyone's life. Even I myself realize the importance of getting enough sleep.

However, the problem has always been putting into practice sleeping enough.

Today,

I would approach this problem from a whole different perspective and of course more organized. I would be using the transtheoretical model to get a further understanding of the real

issue I have over my lack of sleeping time.

Well,

Hehe, a brief introduction, the transtheoretical model is a health Pyschology theory that explains and predict whether someone would follow a certain health beneficial behaviour. In this case, would be sleeping about 6-8 hours a day.

The first stage would be the precontemplation stage. Anyone in this stage would not have any intention to change their behaviour. Well, I think I have already passed this stage because of the existence of this blog as well as my attempt in sleeping early occasionally.

The next stage would be the contemplation stage whereby an individual is aware of the problem of a certain behavior but are not willing to change that behaviour. I am fully aware of the problem of not having enough sleep. In a long-term scale, having less than 6 hours of sleep shortens one's life span although having more than 8 hours sleep also causes a significant impact on a person's lifespan according to a research. However, I think I am not in this stage too as I already have taken action in changing my behavior.

The third stage would be the preparation stage. In this stage, a person has both thoughts and actions to make preparation to change a behavior. The thoughts could be like what are the best way to make the effective change and the motivation of it. The next stage would be the action stage in which a person makes obvious observable changes to their behavior. Well, I think I am in this stage =).... This is because I had actually made observable changes (though not consistent) in my behaviour that is to sleep adequately.

Lastly, is the maintenance stage in which I WAS once in. This stage requires a person to maintain their changed behaviour. For a week or two, I had actually been having adequate sleep. However, the temptation to sleep late is just toooooo hard to resist! The thing with this transtheoretical model is that a person can progress through the stages AS WELL AS REGRESS through the stages.

The reason I approached my health problem using this method is because I would be able to clearly define my problem and take specific action to solve my problem according to the problem I have. For example, I don't really need to know the dangers of sleeping to change my behaviour because I already knew them! =D ... But maybe since I am in the action stage, I would need to be motivated to see the long-term rewards I would obtain if I continue to get adequate sleep.

So all in all,

Your encouragement motivates me along tooo!!!!!