Good sleep essential for your health

And later disorientation, hallucinations and lethargy.

The old adage ‘Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise’ holds a lot of truth. Sleep is foundational and essential to health and happiness.

If you are struggling with sleep it is important to look at why and address. Stress is often the number one factor. If stress is the main problem for you, the cause of the stress has to be looked at and addressed. If your thinking habits are promoting stress, change them. Meditation will help you do this. Internal, External and environmental factors all have to be looked at. Food (quality, quantity and timings) and coffee, tea and alcohol taken too close to sleep time can all adversely affect sleep. Removing light, computers, TV and phones from your room helps promote sleep. Basically anything that will over activate or agitate our minds should be avoided.

Relaxation techniques, breath-work and Meditation all relax the mind and prepare us for sleep. Meditation produces melatonin which aids sleep and also produces serotonin and decreases cortisol in the body. Serotonin makes us feel good and cortisol is a stress hormone. One of the first benefits my students get from meditation is a good nights sleep. After the first class, they invariably report, ‘I slept so well’.

Good sleep is essential for sustained happiness, productivity, peace, success and health. When we think like this about sleep and prioritise it, it gives new meaning to the phrase ‘Sleep your Way to the Top’!

Stress and tension can keep you from relaxing and getting off to sleep. Customers get good results with Melissa Dream tablets. This includes B Vitamins which will help you deal with every day stress. It contains Magnesium which can help relax tense muscles, Lemon Balm to help with relaxation, and anxiety, and L-Theanine to calm your mind.

Noctura is a remedy that I recently mentioned in a previous article, but unfortunately it’s not available right now. New Vistas Sleep Ease is a homeopathic remedy that you could try instead of it to help relax and prepare the body for sleep. They have similar properties.

If its restless legs that’s keeping you awake try Magnesium. This is one of the most important minerals in the body. If you’re deficient other signs can include insomnia, leg cramps, and muscle tension. Many customers use Magnesium to help sleep with good results.

If hot flushes are keeping you awake you may get better results by dealing with the hot flushes first.

If nightmares are preventing you getting a good night sleep you could try Vitamin B1.

Herbal teas also help you could try Yogi Bedtime, Clipper Snore and Peace, or a blend that includes Valerian or Camomile.

I do hope you manage to get a good night’s sleep soon!