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Natural Cures For Insomnia (II) - Nap For A Better Night’s Sleep
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Want an effective alternative cure for insomnia?
Find time after lunch. Go, try find a quiet, cozy place to snooze for about 20-30 minutes. Almost without fail, I wake up after the nap rested, refreshed and ready for the afternoon’s tasks.
Does it ring a bell as you suddenly recall people on campus, at work or at home who yawn after lunch and just can’t help but feel sleepy?
Is it any wonder energy levels for many people are low in the early afternoon and they take so long to get back to the pace of the morning?
In fact, depriving the body’s need of sleep at a time when it’s needed could do more harm than good to your health.
“One intensive Greek study of almost 24,000 men and women over six years found that those who took a 30-minute siesta at least three times a week had a 37 per cent lower risk of a heart-related death than non-nappers!”
It has been reported by other studies that people who live in countries with the culture or habit of taking siesta have lower risks of heart diseases.
If you have insomnia, not having a good daytime nap the right time at the right place may be one causes of insomnia.
If you have never considered napping as possible, alternative cure for insomnia, give it a try.
Don’t deny yourself of better sleep at night. Try taking a short and sound daily afternoon nap. It may well be one of your new found, effective natural cures for insomnia.
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Feb
23
Natural Cures For Insomnia (I) - Nap For A Better Night’s Sleep
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“DON’T nap during the day.” This is a common piece of advice from many self-proclaiming experts offering insomnia help.
The warning goes: Daytime napping will ruin someone with insomnia of any chance from getting a good night’s sleep. In essence they’re saying, catch a nap after lunch and you’ll be counting sheep till 2 am!
I beg to differ.
Anyone who is suffering from insomnia can and should benefit from an afternoon nap.
Indeed, I’m an advocate of daytime napping. You too, can nap. Don’t just take my words. Hear what an expert says.
The thing is, napping is in our genes, as Prof. Jim Horne of Britain’s Loughborough Sleep Research Centre explains: “Humans are designed for two sleeps a day – the main one at night and a nap in the afternoon – which explains why people in the warmer parts of the world have an afternoon siesta, and why the rest of us are likely to be sleepy at this time.”
How does the above relate with your personal experience?
By the way, I’ve chosen “SeldomLoseSleep” as pen name when posting to this blog: http://www.insomniacureguide.com, is not done without reason. It’s true. I’m one who seldom loses sleep. This is why I started a blog dedicated to research, writing on common sleep conditions and offering Natural Cures for Insomnia to improve one’s sleep.
How I did it?
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Jan
6
Seeking Insomnia Cure
Anyone who has experienced insomnia will be able to tell you how serious and difficult a condition it is to live with. Go without sleep for a prolonged period of time, the rest of your life will start to be seriously affected by it. When you are badly starved with sleep it can start to cause you to hallucinate, and can even cause other, much more serious health conditions to develop.
Therefore, if you find that you have insomnia, you are going to want to get treatment right away and work towards finding an insomnia cure. There is actually no single insomnia cure, but rather various treatment options that you can choose from so you can find out what works for you.
Remember, everyone is different and so what works for one person’s insomnia may not work at all for you. In most cases it takes months of trial and error before a cure is found.
Treatment Options
Doctors say it is important to find out the underlying cause of insomnia so it can be treated properly and the appropriate insomnia medicine be dispensed.
Before you can find an insomnia cure for yourself, you are going to need to learn about the different treatment options for insomnia that are out there. Fortunately there are quite a few, and one of the most popular is yoga. This is a great thing because then for an insomnia cure you may not even need to worry about taking medication.
Another idea for an insomnia cure involves a couple different anything. More than anything you want to make sure that you are creating a routine for yourself. By doing the same things around the same time each night, your body will start to get accustomed to these patterns and expect to go to sleep at that time.
Try Natural Cure Options
If you are not able to find a cure, try a natural cure for insomnia. There are many benefits to natural cures for insomnia that you cannot find with their conventional, prescription medication counterparts. For one, with a natural cure for your insomnia condition you will not have to worry about dealing with unfavorable side effects, which are often worse than the actual insomnia condition.
Finding effective insomnia cure is not very difficult provided you know how to work closely with your doctor. Figure out the cause(s) early and weigh various treatment options for the best results. You should never start taking any type of insomnia medicine without first consulting with your doctor. This is very crucial and serves as a safeguard not to put yourself at risk.
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The next 7 self-help tips for natural cures for insomnia:
7. Resolve to start without delay to establish and maintain a consistent daily sleep schedule, regardless of your age (and even if you do shift work), if you have yet to set up such sleep routine.
8. Be conscious and deliberate about doing ‘small’ things that help relax our bodies and minds like having a shower or enjoy a glass of warm milk before going to bed each night.
9. Be mindful and put in efforts to create and up-keep an environment that is most conducive for sleeping like pampering yourself with an ideal room temperature, good air quality as well as ventilation.
10. Once you are in bed, learn to unwind yourself by ‘switching off’ your mind and relaxing your body. Always refrain from doing anything ‘heavy’ just before bed like serious reading or holding a discussion with another person. I know this is often easier said than done but it is really a very healthy habit worthwhile cultivating.
11. Cultivate the habit of waking up the same time everyday, regardless if it’s weekday or weekend. If need be, use an alarm clock. After doing it for some time, your body clock with enough tuning, will take over so waking up won’t be as ‘painful’ as before.
12. Unless there’s medical reason, avoid taking afternoon nap. If you are someone who can’t live without napping, then be sure to take your nap before 3pm. Also, the nap should not be more than an hour.
13. Try to exercise regularly as often as you can every week but refrain from exercising especially vigorously, at times too close to your sleep. It’s known that appropriate exercises done right regularly in the day can help our bodies get more ‘restful’ and hence, better sleep at night.
Hope you won’t find the above self-help natural cures for insomnia too overwhelming.
By now I hope you are convinced that there are truly abundant natural cures for insomnia options that anyone can choose to fight insomnia. These are literally simple, safe but effective insomnia cures, minus the adverse side effects. Don’t let insomnia starve you of sleep and ruin your health. Choose natural cures for insomnia, not pills.
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18
Craving for a good night’s sleep? Here are 13 ‘must-try’ self-help natural cures for insomnia that will work for anyone who is serious about improving sleep quality:
1. Refrain from inappropriate or untimely consumption of food and beverages containing caffeine, nicotine or alcohol. Those three are notoriously depriving many of better sleep. Most people habitually don’t give much thought about how the choice of food and drinks can affect their sleep. So just exercise more care to what you eat and drink as well as when you eat and drink and you would have less trouble going to sleep and staying asleep.
2. Avoid taking heavy meals two hours before bed. Doing so relieve our body, specifically our digestive system of having to work overtime while we go to sleep and hence, help us sleep better.
3. Don’t drink too much water after dinner everyday so as to avoid having to wake up to go to toilet in the middle of your sleep. Once awaken, it’s generally harder to sleep as soundly as before.
4. Where feasible, try to stay away from environments that continually work as stimuli to our senses after 5pm (for those living in the tropic, could be earlier or later depending on the season if you’re living in temperate countries) each day, for example, very noisy places. This practice works by helping to ‘rest’ and condition our bodies and minds through relaxation to better prepare us to sleep later at night.
5. Strictly stick to the rule that the bed is only meant for sleep. If all you need is some rest, not sleep then go and rest yourself comfortably at the sofa. Just stay away from the bed.
6. Stop watching TV in bed if you have been doing that. Such practice, especially when it happens just before you sleep, can keep your mind overly active and thus, makes it harder for you to go to sleep.
Seven more self-help tips on natural cures for insomnia to follow soon…
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Valerian Root
Proper use of Valerian Root is known to be quite effective for promoting ease of relaxation and quality sleep. This is certainly one natural cure for insomnia option worthwhile trying. But keep this in mind. One has to be fully aware of known possible side effects being experienced by certain users that are attributed to the use of Valerian Root. It simply does not justify using Valerian Root as a natural cure for insomnia option to treat insomnia if the outcome is only to produce more and bigger problems that are actually worse off than the sleep depriving condition itself.
Chamomile is a common and natural choice, very appealing to anyone in search for a natural cure for insomnia. As a sleep-enhancing substance most often consumed as tea derived from the dried leaves and flowers of a plant by the same name, Chamomile has been proven and time-tested as a natural cure for insomnia and method of choice. Just one or two glasses of Chamomile Tea (which is quite easily purchased in any super mart) before bed can soothe and relax a person having difficulty sleeping enough to make him or her fall and stay asleep.
Honey
Honey is another commonly available, affordable sleep-enhancing option as a natural cure for insomnia that is known to help one sleep. It can be consumed as honey drink, added to and consumed as tea or just used in the form of bread spread.
The Best Approach – Not Forgetting The Root Cause
The possible causes of insomnia and reasons for insomnia vary highly from one person to another. To have them figured out quickly is not easy. Knowing precisely the root cause of insomnia can and will make deciding which natural cure for insomnia option to use a lot easier. Seeking medical advice from a doctor promptly is perhaps one of the most effective ways to determine the root cause of one’s insomnia.
The best approach, even better than using medications for insomnia or natural cures for insomnia, is to actually figure out and deal with the root cause of your insomnia. With this approach, you are not just treating or masking the symptoms on hand. Instead, you choose to deal directly and effectively with the cause of your insomnia. You are now tackling the insomnia problem at its roots. Given enough time, an effective solution can be found and soon, your insomnia will leave you, once and for all.
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