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Insomnia Relief: Balance Your Body and Mind

February 1st, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

Are you looking for insomnia relief? When you lie awake night after night, it affects every area of your life. It’s also dangerous, because sleep deprivation can have long term health consequences.

Let’s look at how you can conquer insomnia for good, by balancing and harmonizing your body and mind.

1. Take a Yoga Class: Stretch Insomnia Away

Exercise is great if you have insomnia, because it eliminates stress hormones, like adrenaline, from your body. Yoga is great exercise for sleep disorders, because it works on only on your body, but also on your mind. If your insomnia is caused by anxiety, yoga will relieve this easily.

Take a beginner’s yoga class at your local yoga studio, and tell the instructor that you’re having problems with insomnia. You’ll be given some easy yoga stretches you can do in the evening, which will prepare your body for restful sleep.

2. Get an Aromatherapy Massage to Unknot Your Muscles

The essential oils which are used in aromatherapy have been used as natural medicines for thousands of years. Oils made from herbs like lavender, chamomile and geranium will rebalance your body’s processes, as well as soothing your mind.

Don’t be surprised if you fall asleep on the massage table. The aromatherapist will give you a sleep blend to take home to use each evening.

3. Meditate for Ten Minutes Twice a Day

You can feel rather silly when you’re meditating. You’re sitting, doing and thinking of nothing. However, meditation is very powerful. You’ll be able to calm down your internal chatter, which has a wonderful effect on your body: you’ll relax.

If possible, get instruction from a meditation teacher. However, instruction from a CD or book is almost as good.

Tip: you may feel that “nothing’s happening” as you meditate. However, as long as you’re trying to follow the instructions for your meditation, you can be sure that it is indeed working. You’ll discover that after a couple of sessions of meditation, you’re relaxed enough to sleep.

Although insomnia can seem like a minor hassle, it can be dangerous to your health. Try these simple processes for insomnia relief: they work.

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Cures for Insomnia: Teaching Yourself to Sleep Well

January 31st, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

Insomnia, which is the inability to sleep, affects some ten per cent of the adult population. However, cures for insomnia are relatively straightforward. You can teach yourself to sleep within minutes of your head touching the pillow.

Here’s how. This simple method will retrain your mind and body, so that it associates a time (your bedtime) and a place (your bedroom) with sleep. You’re establishing a new, powerful habit, so it’s essential that you stick with this process for at least three weeks so that you never suffer from insomnia again.

1. Treat Sleep With the Respect It Deserves

Most of us take sleep for granted. Therefore, we just assume that it will happen. Do a little research on what happens when you miss out on the sleep you need: it’s frightening. You can damage both your body and your mind.

Commit to achieving at least seven hours of sleep a night, every night.

2. Set a Bedtime, and Stick to It

Choose a bedtime. Choose 10PM, or 11Pm at the latest. Create a bedtime ritual for yourself. Turn off the TV. Put on some relaxing music. Take a bath or shower, and give yourself a light massage with an essential oil like lavender or sandalwood.

3. Exercise Every Day, but Never in the Evening

Exercise eliminates stress hormones from your system. Therefore, exercise for at least half an hour every day. Go for a walk around the block, or swim. Schedule your exercise as you schedule everything else.

4. Eliminate Caffeine-Laden Beverages After 3PM

If you love coffee and tea, you can drink them in the morning. Avoid them after lunch. Drink decaffeinated beverages after 3PM.

5. Remove All Distractions from Your Bedroom

If you have a TV set or computer in your bedroom remove them, or unplug them. You’re teaching your body and your mind that your bedroom is where you sleep. It takes at least half an hour to unwind enough to get ready for sleep after you watch TV or use the computer, so ensure that you turn them off an hour before you intend going to sleep.

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Insomnia Remedies: Natural Cures, or Prescription?

January 30th, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

Insomnia is a common sleep disorder. If you’ve spent several nights without sleeping, not only are you tired, but you could also easily have an accident while driving, or at work. Therefore it’s essential that you find insomnia remedies as soon as possible.

You have a choice of two remedies. You can either get prescription medication or try to find a natural cure. Which one is right for you?

There’s no set answers for this. You need to make your own decision. With prescription medication, you lose normal sleep patterns, and this can have long term psychological and physical consequences.

Finding natural insomnia remedies is the better choice. However, you should always be guided by your doctor, so see your doctor first.

1. Natural Sleep Remedies Which Work

Most natural insomnia remedies are based on herbs. These herbs have generally been used for thousands of years, so there are no real contraindications to them unless you happen to be pregnant — if you’re pregnant, see your doctor. However you may feel slightly dopey the next morning. It’s always best to use herbal sleep aids just for a couple of days, rather than becoming dependent on them.

Natural insomnia herb-based remedies which work include lavender, valerian, and chamomile. These are available as teas, or as essential oils. Some naturopaths may also sell these herbs as liquids.

Another natural sleep remedy for insomnia is acupuncture. You’ll need several treatments, but you should find that you sleep better after the first treatment.

2. Training Yourself to Sleep With Self Hypnosis

Hypnosis also works as a natural remedy for insomnia. Depending on the causes of your insomnia, you’ll usually need two or three sessions. Ask your hypnotherapist to teach you how to use self hypnosis. The first part of any hypnosis session is relaxation, and once you’ve learned the trick of relaxing completely, you’ll find it easier to fall asleep. This is because when your body is completely relaxed your mind relaxes too — it’s impossible to feel stressed when you’re completely relaxed physically.

If you do choose to use a prescription insomnia medication in preference to natural insomnia remedies, remember that this will affect your sleep patterns. Be guided by your doctor, but stop using prescription medication as soon as possible.

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