About a month ago I started burning the midnight oil still up in time to watch the early bird catch its worm! The circles under my eyes are turning into dark ravines and my nerves are frayed. My mother says drink warm milk..gag! My friends say eat turkey...so I downed a turkey sandwich in the evening...the grumbling stomach that followed was not a lullaby.
Did you know that insomnia is NOT a sleep disorder? According to http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Insomnia it is symptomatic of something else going on. It can be caused by countless things like sleep disorders, stress, hormone imbalance, or the neighborhood dog barking all night long. But before I blame Fido, I need to take a hard look at what's been going on in my life lately that might have triggered this.
Things like job loss, the one hundred ways my car has found to break down or those late coffee drinks could be catalysts. Or maybe it's over the recent death of a love one, serious stuff. I am starting to detect a pattern. Every time I sit down to watch television I fall asleep on the spot, but the minute I lay down in bed my mind races like Kyle Busch on his last lap at NASCAR. Only in this race, there is no winner. I don't have a problem falling asleep...my trouble is staying asleep, anyone have a spare sledgehammer?
I am holistic so I don’t want to pollute my body with pharmaceutical fix ups. I read that calcium supplements contribute to sleepiness so I up my dosage, but still I am ready for the dawn patrol.
Then what's the solution? Visit this site for a list of do’s and don’ts - http://www.chomp.org/pulse/2007/spring07/artricle27.aspx . I tried a warm bath, chamomile tea, relaxing music, and once in bed a CD tuned to the lowest volume. Best choice: the Bible because I find the word of God very soothing. Sleep will come in its own time and it seems inevitable that I will be waiting in wide eyed anticipation.
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Sleep did come and I did manage to stay there for at least 7 hours. Eliminating coffee helped a great deal, also turning off the computer and TV by 9p, reducing the bright lights from dig. clocks etc. in bedroom. There is this thing called Circadian Rhythm whereby you get to bed/sleep by 10p and your body heals itself during sleep. Good sound sleep. Awakening rejuventated. Try it!
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