Lack of sleep

Archive for January, 2009

I have been asked from a few people if I know of any herbal sleep remedies that can help with their lack of sleep. I’m by no means a physician, so if your problems is serious and not something that you can fix with some healthy lifestyle changes, you need to consult a specialist. However, for the regular folks like us, who are fighting with everyday work or family related stress, with problems that you are worried about or working on, that keep you awake at night, there are several herbal remedies available that you can use, quite safely too. Read the rest of this entry »

Natural insomnia cures – how sweet, and yet unreachable these words are. Or are they?
We all know how much insomnia, or lack of sleep, affects all of us, practically millions of people all over the world. And most of us would give anything just to get a relief, a cure of insomnia, to be able to sleep totally restful for a couple of hours every night.

When you are suffering from insomnia, eventually your general health will start to shown signs of ‘let down’, you will feel more and more tired during the day, every day, with lack of concentration coming as second major problem. Friends and family will notice how cranky you have become, and they will not stay by your side for long, not after all their helpful concern and advice seemed to not work at all. Read the rest of this entry »

I like to meditate regularly, it is one of my ‘hobbies’, so to speak. While cruising some of the meditation blogs for that interest me, I found a great post regarding meditation and sleep that I have to mention, because it touches on a point I wanted to write about sooner or later anyway.

Did you know that one of the easiest treatments for lack of sleep is a sleep meditation, which is one of the available meditation types that you can practice? Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes lack of sleep is an illness by itself. At other times though, lack of sleep is a symptom of something else more serious, of one of the byproducts of our modern lifestyle, called nervous tension, or stress.

In today’s society, we are constantly pressured to get from one place to another. Or sometimes we are asked to accept more responsibility than we feel physically or mentally capable of handling. Anxiety or the stress of an unpleasant situation at home or work can put us on edge so we experience lack of sleep at night. Even if we are not confronted by these problems, a barking dog or wailing siren may produce just enough noise to keep us from enjoying a sound, energy-restoring sleep. Read the rest of this entry »

In the previous part about indigestion as a cause for lack of sleep, we introduced the subject and analyzed who is most likely to suffer from indigestion, and listed the different types of indigestion, as physical, emotional and mental.

In the second part we will continue our discussion on how indigestion affects lack of sleep. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve read recently a short study (wish I remembered where it was) about the relation between lack of sleep, or insomnia, and the rich, vs. the poor.

Although common sense would seem to point out that the poor are mostly suffering from lack of sleep, due to their financial and living problems, the study showed that the situation might be just opposite to this.

It seems that the wealthier a person is, the better chances to become an insomniac.
Apparently it is remarkable how little complains one hears in hospitals from the poorer classes.
One of the results the study came to was that one reason for this poor vs rich shift is that poor are less haunted by such problems as overfeeding, inertia, idleness, self-absorption and ennui.

Lack of sleep in one form or another,  accompanies nearly every illness, but it occurs also in entirely healthy people. In the majority of cases it is a state of mind originated in fear and apprehension. Frequently, however, it can also have an immediate physical cause, such as indigestion, or toothache.

Maybe one of the most acute problems that cause insomnia is indigestion. People often ignore it, thus failing to cure their lack of sleep right from the start. Read the rest of this entry »