When you are asleep, your heart rate slows down, your temperature drops and your digestive functions almost stop. However, your muscles keep contracting every now and then and you think. Babies need at least 16 hours of sleep a day on everage but by the time we are into childhood, seven or eight hours a night is enough.It isn’t really for our bodies that we sleep ; it is the brain that needs recharging. The adrenal gland secrets a hormone , cortesol, and the levels of this hormone in the blood relate to periods of wakefulness and sleep.
Dreaming is an essential part of sleep, dreams manufacture chemicals needed for intellectual functioning . Dreaming takes place at least four times at night during quite light sleep . This coincides with REM-rapid eye movement . However , if you take barbiturates (sedative drugs), you arte less likely to dream and may awake exhausted even though you dream and may awake exhausted even though you have slept for eight hours.
Insomnia
Women seem to suffer from insomnia more than men . Maybe this is because most women find that their agenda of life , children , work , housekeeping, continues on into the night after they have gone to continues on into the night after they have gone to bed.
They cannot stop their minds working, remembering things that they ought to have done, things that they have forgotten and that they have to do tomorrow.
At particular points in a women’s life , insomnia is quite a common feature. For instance, one of the first effects of becoming pregnant is fatigue and, paradoxically, the anability to sleep when you lie down at night, Waking in the early become an insomniac because you simply cannot find a comfortable position to lie in. In the first two thirds of pregnancy , the reason for insomnia is that the baby’s metabolism does not shut down at night but yours does. The baby continues to grow, develop and feed all the 24 hours.
Certain emotions will certainly preclude sleep. The worst is resentment. If you reverberate about an incident that occurred during the day in which you felt you were treated unfairly , or make a choice of words which you wish you had said at the tome, then there is no chance of sleeping.
Resentment raises the blood pressure and the pulse rate and this is exactly the opposite of what has to be happen before you can go to sleep.It follows from this that there are certain parts of your body on which you should concentrate in order to get to sleep. Sleep will come more easily if your pulse rate slow and blood pressure is down. This can be help by lying fairly still and controlling your movements by taking deep slow breaths and concentrating on process of breathing. The slower you can make your breathing , the nearer you are to sleep and slower your pulse rate will be. To help you to do this , you can concentrate on relaxing various parts of your body.
Start with your forehead and relax a frown , relax muscles of the jaw, chin and neck. Make your arm s feel limp. Become aware of the pressure of yor torso lying on the bed and then gradually down your legs until they are completely relaxed, including your toes. Many people find this process is soporific that they are asleep before they get to their feet.Another trick is to empty your mind and think about a favourite thing. Mine is black velvet . Every time another thought creeps in , concentrate on the favourite thing again. This is an almost infallible cure for going without sleep.Used lavender diluted oils under soul of feet.To use, apply a small amount of balm to the wrists, neck and the back of the ears. Rub a tiny amount onto hair for a long lasting perfume.Get a cup or two –lavender herbal tea or chamomile herbal tea. Get your Zzzz.
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