Sleep well - why your pillow and mattress is essential for your sleep position.

The cliche is that it’s important because we spend a third of our lifetime sleeping. And it’s a cliche because it’s true. There are many who struggle with sleeping - tossing and turning from one position to the next, waking up feeling worse than when they went to bed, but sleeping position is something that most understand very poorly, and the traditional advice doled out doesn’t help that at all.

The truth is that there is a perfect position for you to sleep in. It is the most comfortable way for you to lie for a long period of time, in which your body is most relaxed, making sleep easier to achieve and more restful. The perfect sleeping position is side sleeping. Before you object by saying “I’m not comfortable on my side, I have to roll on to my back (or, heaven forbid, your stomach)” you need to realise that is because you’ve never been told how to find the perfect position for side sleeping.

The details of how to find that position are more lengthy than will fit in this blog, so check out our video at the link below.

What is required to find the position is patience, and a pillow that you can adjust the height of very precisely. Having your pillow height off by less than a centimetre can be the difference between perfect and imperfect as far as height is concerned. Firmness is also important. If your pillow is too soft, it will change shape through the night and you’ve lost the perfect height. ABCA sell a very firm, adjustable height pillow (also available through the link below, and from our clinic) that allows anyone to find the perfect height for their sleeping position.

The other important key to perfect sleeping position is a firm mattress. If your body is quite wound up, twisted, and full of compensations, then you may need the forgiving fluffiness of a soft mattress. However, as your body straightens up into better alignment through ABC care, you should find that the support of a firmer mattress becomes much more comfortable for you. Again, ABCA make an amazing mattress (also available through a link below) that provides all of the support required by a Well Postured body to have you sleeping well through the night, and waking up feeling great every morning.

Sleeping Position video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ml__90tOE

Adjustable Pillow link: https://www.abcaustralasia.org.au/product/adjustable-pillow-copy/

Mattress link: https://www.abcaustralasia.org.au/abcamattress/?ref=167