- 10 ways to build resilience
- Building professional resilience: A quick guide
- Building Resilience: Keep things in perspective
- Building Resilience: Take care of yourself
- Building Resilience: Change is a part of life
- Building Resilience: Move toward your goals
- Building Resilience: Look for opportunities for self-discovery
- Building Resilience: Take care of yourself
- Building Resilience: Taking Decisive Action
- Building Resilience: Dealing with a crisis
- Building Resilience: Maintaining a hopeful outlook
- Building Resilience: Making connections
- Steps toward good mental health
- Understanding Fatigue: Why we get tired and what can we do about it?
- Understanding Fatigue: Why good sleep is important
- Understanding Fatigue: How body clock can make or break our health
- Understanding Fatigue: Why time awake needs control
- Understanding Fatigue: How to avoid jet lag
- Understanding Fatigue: Why workload is an increasing concern
- Understanding Fatigue: Don’t let stress run your life
- Understanding Fatigue: Making a healthy lifestyle part of our day-to-day lives
- Understanding Fatigue: Dealing with individual differences
- Building Resilience: How to develop a fatigue reporting culture
- Building Resilience: How to balance work and task demands
- Building Resilience: Mental health tips for seafarers in need
- Building Resilience: How to create a positive coaching style of management
- Building Resilience: Fostering empathy towards mental health issues
- Building Resilience: Steps towards a wellbeing & mental health management system
- Building Resilience: Keep an eye open for people with depression
For example, there are individual characteristics related to circadian rhythms. People can be characterized as morning or evening types depending on the period of the day when they perform at their best. In addition to that, each individual has his/her own chronotype which shows the genetic propensity to sleep and plays a key role in one’s ability to achieve quality sleep.
Sleep is essential to our mental and physical health. In case sleep disorders are being notices, improving our sleep should become a key priority. As such, we may need to track our sleep for a few days to identify any sleep-wake patterns and also measure sleep duration and quality.
We learn better, cope better with stress, and live a longer life when we can follow our body’s natural desire to rise with the sun and sleep with the moon.
Did you know?
- Observe your sleep-wake schedule on free days and compare it to scheduled days
- A genetic component determines if a person is more morning or evening oriented
- Environmental and social factors can lead to a change
- People progressively become more morning oriented
- Eating with a schedule can curb unwanted sleepiness
- Chronotype, the biological tendency for sleeping earlier or later, is largely regulated by the circadian clock
- The discrepancy between work and free days is described as 'social jetlag’
Different Chronotypes: Are you a Dolphin, Lion, Bear, or Wolf?
Developed by Dr. Michael Breus
Have you ever felt like you’re on a different schedule than everyone around you? Try to understand your inner schedule to sleep well and feel energetic.
#1 Dolphins
- 10% of the population
- Light sleepers
- Tend to wake up at the slightest noise
- What to do: take breaks throughout the day to recharge
- Fall asleep when their body needs to
#2 Lions
- 15% of the population
- Naturally wake up early
- Most alert in the mornings
- What to do: take time for yourself at the end of the day
- Able to complete massive amounts of work before lunch
#3 Bears
- 55% of the population
- Their energy cycle rises and falls with the sun
- Most productive in daylight
- What to do: schedule meetings and make your projects in the morning, try to finish work before late afternoon
- Need of eight hours of sleep
#4 Wolves
- 15% of the population
- Naturally stay up later and sleep later
- Most productive at night
- Two peak periods of work and creativity: around early afternoon and then again late at night
- Going to bed once the clock strikes midnight
Practice can improve dealing with situations onboard the vessel