BRAIN BOOSTER
Sleep-promoting foods contain amino acid tryptophan, which helps produce serotonin that makes you feel good, and melatonin that makes you sleepy.
Tryptophan is found in dairy, fish, red meat, poultry, eggs, and fruit such as mango and banana.
Advertisement
If you want to establish a really solid pattern of deep sleep, you need to make sure you don t wind yourself up when it s time to wind down. It is not just action movies that keep you alert.
All television programmes are designed to catch your attention and to keep it, by making you excited.
People having a nice, happy time do not make for gripping dramas; news bulletins are full of crashes, floods, explosions, financial problems and lucky escapes.
Have you ever attached happiness to future circumstances or a distant goal? I think most of us have.
Goals are great motivators that help you to measure your success. But the problem with pinning your happiness too firmly on them, is you can end up holding back good feelings.
Imagine setting yourself a goal: ‘In ten years’ time, I want to own a house by the seaside.’
You paint a nice, clear picture of what you want and become highly motivated to achieve it. Doubtless, you will be very happy when you hit that goal.
Paul McKenna (pictured) has revealed his top tips for beating stress and boosting your mood, as pandemic restrictions continue to make it difficult to live by our values
The human brain is a highly sensitive receiver which takes in millions of stimuli every day, but its ability to process this constant barrage of information varies from person to person.
You might be the sort who finds yourself easily crushed by world events and struggling under the privations of yet another lockdown, or you might feel emboldened and undaunted, able to stay positive and make the best of whatever situation you find yourself in.
The key factor separating those two camps is not genetics or personality, but something entirely different: resilience.
The human brain is a highly sensitive receiver which takes in millions of stimuli every day, but its ability to process this constant barrage of information varies from person to person
PAUL McKENNA: The pandemic has put us all under extraordinary pressure - and that s even if you ve been fortunate enough to be spared any direct trauma as the virus has spread.
PAUL McKENNA: Truly confident people come across as being much more relaxed about life. They possess a quiet self-belief that makes it somehow effortless to be in their company.