If you think you might have a sleep disorder, give this self-test a go and find out. At the end of the test, I will reveal your score. Read more…
A basic definition of insomnia is based on a sensation of daytime fatigue. There are actually multiple levels of insomnia or degrees, but it’s generally accepted that even though you are tired, you have difficulty sleeping or falling asleep, or even staying asleep. When you wake-up in the morning, you do not feel rested, due to the disturbance in these sleep patterns.
The question becomes is insomnia a sleep disorder of it’s own, or is it a symptom or side effect of another condition? Not everyone agrees on one final answer at this time. Read more…
We have an amazingly balanced machine as bodies. From birth, this balance exists between us and our environment. Sadly, not many know what to do to maintain this balance throughout our lifetime. For example, when we breath in the polluted air and eat the wrong foods, we do not do ourselves any service, and lack of sleep is a major result of all these. Even more so is dehydration, which can use anything between all sorts of pains and chronic lack of sleep, or insomnia. Read more…
No BELIEF is more deeply ingrained than that the average individual requires seven, eight or more hours of sleep. Like most firmly established popular misconceptions, it is totally unjustified.
History is full with examples of people who lived at the times of some major transformation, who contributed greatly to the pleasures of life, who were able to do their work on half that amount of sleep. That it is possible to do top notch intellectual work and maintain a degree of vitality enabling one to live out the scriptural allotment is evidenced by Herbert Spencer. Read more…
Imagine yourself counting sheep when you’re closing your eyes but you suffer from lack of sleep. What exactly do you see? I’m pretty sure you see sheep jumping over a fence while you try to keep count. If you think that this image can put anyone to sleep then you’re sadly mistaken. Numbers and hyperactive animals are not exactly sleep enticing, now are they? Read more…
