Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts has recently launched an all-new program to provide insights and expertise specifically for business travellers. As a doctor, I applaud the people at Crowne for really understanding the importance of ensuring travellers maintain a sense of balance and wellbeing while on the road. So I’m excited to be able to share my advice and experience on this subject.
In the coming months, my posts will be shared on my own blog and LinkedIn page, as well as the Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts LinkedIn page.
Lack of sleep and stress – the age old problem
That old chicken and egg situation describing the much researched relationship between sleep and stress remains as confusing as ever. Much to no nobody’s surprise, studies have shown people with chronic stress report having sleeps that are shorter and of poorer quality. On the flip side, having shorter sleep duration predictably impacts negatively on relationships and on perceptions of your stress levels. In other words, stress kills your sleep and not getting enough sleep amplifies your stress levels.
If you’re a frequent business traveller, you are the personification of this paradox. By the time you’ve done a couple of overnight flights, pulled an all-nighter to get ready for the next day’s early meeting , then backed up again next week and done it all again, you’re a train wreck. In my experience, you can triple that if you come home to young kids and a partner who has felt your business absence acutely and is keen to thrust a couple of screaming kids in your direction as soon as you head through the door. Or if you’re surviving on a diet of cigarettes, red wine and minibar snacks or drive through burgers and chips.
So where do we start to right the wrongs that stress and lack of sleep have wrought on your mind and body? Here are my top three tips (by no means comprehensive)
Sleep tight and feel the love!
Ginni xx