What is it?
"What I'd give to sleep like a baby again!" a customer once told me in a fit of desperation. Habitual sleeplessness, repeated night after night, is classified as insomnia. There are a wide variety of causes of insomnia and I am assuming that anyone suffering from such a state will probably have consulted their healthcare practitioner and attempted to discover the cause of their own sleeplessness. Difficulty in nodding off and broken sleep patterns is often the result of a number of facors, such as stress, tension or anxiety and can cause symptoms such as headaches, memory and concentration loss, tiredness and low mood.
What most of us want to avoid is unnecesary use of tranquillisers and sedatives. So, I often explain to customers that poor sleep patterns often start during the day. Since stress and anxiety is happening all the time in our lives, more so than at other times, when we turn in for the night we take our stresses to bed with us. That over active mind is what undoes it for us, the 'chattering monkey' as they say in the East. The point is, it may be important to take a natural supplement, such as valerian, during the day to help reduce muscular and mental anxiety. So when we go to bed, the job's half done. We can then complete the dosage of the appropriate supplement to help get that beauty sleep.
Below are a few natural supplements you may want to try in addition to appropriate dietary changes, such as cutting down on fats, coffee and alcohol and avoding watching the tv last thing before retiring. What we want to do is switch your brain from its normal 'beta' wave activity to the more relaxed 'alpha' wave state, which is favoured by babies, cats and meditationists! |
