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Bedtime Stories: Not Just for Kids
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Bedtime Stories: Not Just for Kids
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Bedtime stories can help children's brains stay attentive and active while simultaneously relaxing them. This can make falling asleep easier. And children are not the only ones who can enjoy a good bedtime story.

Bedtime stories can do the same thing for adults. After your brain works all day, a bedtime story could be exactly what you need to get a good night’s rest.

Benefits of Bedtime Stories

Bedtime stories can help take your mind off of the stressors and worries in your life. This inadvertently decreases your adrenaline and prepares you for rest.

Pairing bedtime stories with calming sounds or music may increase your sleep quality. Calming sounds and music promote melatonin production in your brain.

Bedtime stories can help:

  • Decrease heart rate
  • Stimulate the parasympathetic
  • Lower blood pressure
  • Lessen anxiety

All of these are factorsnecessary for quality sleep.

Make Bedtime Stories a Habit

If you plan on adding bedtime stories to your sleeping routine, it should be repetitive. Bedtime stories are beneficial to people because they form a habit. Consistently listening to bedtime stories will help form a habit and heighten their effectiveness regarding rest and sleep regularly.

Are you having a hard time finding the best bedtime stories? No worries, the BetterSleep app has many to choose from. Here are a few recommendations:

The BetterSleep app has dozens of bedtime stories and soothing sounds to choose from. Visit the app today and start getting quality sleep!

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