6 Sleep Position and Personality Affect Your Health

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Not only speaking style, it turns out someone sleeping position can explain personality.

In a survey involving 1,000 participants, Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, analyzed six common sleeping position most do. Research findings indicate that sleep position not only affect health, but also can reflect a person's personality. What are the sixth position? Check out his review below:

The Freefall

Position: Lie on your stomach or on your stomach with your hands around the pillow and head turned to the side.

Personality: People with prone sleeping position tend to be extroverted and gregarious personality. However, they are often careless, seemed restless and irritable.

Health benefits: Lying on his stomach or stomach good for digestion.



The Fetus

Position: This position as the position of the fetus in the womb, bed roll, and turned to the side. It is the most common sleeping positions do. As many as 41 percent of the 1,000 participants, sleep with this position.

Personality: Those who sleep with this curled position tend to be shy and sensitive at heart. They need time to warm up in communicating with other people, but soon melts slowly and relaxed.

Health Effects: Noteworthy is not all direction (right or left) of these positions provide health benefits. Sleeping with a curled up position facing the left side can cause stress on vital organs such as the liver, stomach, and lung. So if curled is your favorite position, be sure to adjust your position facing the right side of the body.

The Log

Position: Lie on your side with arms at your sides and legs stretched out.

Personality: People who sleep in this position are social and relaxed.
Weaknesses: They have a tendency to trust anyone, including foreigners, thus making them gullible.

Health Benefits: This position makes the spine straight, beneficial for those who suffer from back pain.



The Yearner

Position: Almost the same as log position, but with both hands stretched out.

Personality: People with sleep position as these tend to be open to new things, but also suspicious and cynical. They require a long time to make a decision, weigh the good and bad repeatedly. But if they have to make a choice, they hardly ever change your mind or regret his choice.

Health Benefits: Helps relieve some of the problems associated with acid reflux disease and sleep apnea. But if these symptoms occur frequently, you may need to come to a specialist.


The Soldier

Position: Lie on your back with your arms at your sides.

Personality: People with sleeping positions like these are generally quiet and reserved. They do not like to make a deal on the big things. They set a very high standard of achievement for them and others.

Health effects: research shows that sleeping on your back can cause snoring, difficulty breathing, and sleep soundly.


The Starfish

Position: Lie on your back with both arms up.

Personality: People with sleep position like this is described as a good listener. They are always willing to offer help and generally do not like being in the limelight.

Health effects: As the soldier sleeping position, the effect is more likely to snore and have breathing problems that made sleep soundly.