Do Not Go to Bed Angry
Many of us have heard the saying do not go to bed angry! Today research supports that going to bed angry is never a good idea. Did you know it’s origins are in the Bible…?
“.. Do not go to bed angry. Don’t give the devil that kind of foothold in your life”
Paul wrote to the church at Ephesus. These words has passed down through time.
Sleep researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found support for Paul’s advice. Their study concludes that your negative emotional response to a traumatic event is reduced if you stay awake afterwards than if you go to sleep shortly afterwards.
Sleep preserves and enhances unpleasant emotional memories.
The study points to the practice that you should try to resolve angry feelings before you go to sleep. When you do, the study shows, you can have a less instinctively emotional reaction in the morning.
The studies also found that sleep had significant effects on participants’ memories and feelings. Strong recognition for pictures was better following sleep compared with waking moments. The participants maintained a strong impression of their initial negative emotions following a period of sleep compared to a period of wakefulness.
Going to bed angry shows that this is one thing NOT to sleep over!
A strong conclusion was drawn from the study that sleep’s effect on the emotion is independent of its effect on memory.
Going to bed angry can be seen to really affect your well being. Anger is strife. And strife has the capacity to badly affect your mental health. Often, resolving stress, anger, and choosing to forgive, has more benefit to you than to the other person! Try to do so TODAY!
Giving strife a foothold in your life can only negatively affect your mental health AND physical health…and relationships! Strife includes conflict, bitterness, jealousy, envy. And all these things are forms of anger, directly or indirectly.
We all have the power to chose which emotions we feed. Which will you choose? Choose the right one and have a good night’s sleep!
Rather than stew in anger, make up now with someone who has upset you. Don’t go to bed angry today! Please like or share to show you agree! 🙂
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