Joe Penniston via Compfight I’m sure this post will raise some anxiety if I dismiss an insomnia treatment that happens to work for you. I’m sorry, but as you’ll read later, I wonder if it’s really doing anything. I generally put most primary insomnia treatments (secondary insomnia is a whole other thing) into one of five… Read More…
There’s no worse feeling than having to drag yourself out of bed after a restless night of tossing and turning. You feel heavy and groggy, and you just can’t wait to snap at the next person to greet you a cheerful good morning. Insomnia deprives your body of that much-needed rest, leaving you feeling haggard… Read More…
Photo Credit: Kevin Dooley via Compfight Often, when we talk about improving our sleep, the topic of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) comes up. Instead of diving into the “official” definition of NLP (which is easy enough to find in Wikipedia), I’ll give you my interpretation of NLP and it’s use in managing sleep. The two… Read More…
Isochronic tones are pretty commonly used in the sleep deprived population – they can cause you to relax, and some of the specific frequencies involved stimulate certain parts of your brain (SMR – Sensory Motor Rhythm, related to insomnia, for example). I’ve been using these isochronic tones off and on for over a year now,… Read More…
I’ve been experimenting with natural sleep remedies for a couple of years now, and it occurs to me that I haven’t written one consolidated post regarding basic sleep hygiene. This has got to be the core of whatever you do, so adding tones and hypnosis and meditation probably won’t do squat if you haven’t laid… Read More…
Sleeping well at the best of times, for many of us, is a struggle. When you pile on the festivities and the stress of the Holiday Season, sleep can often take a back seat. But you can do it all – party, manage the brother-in-law stress, and still get a good night’s sleep. And do… Read More…
Sleep can be a frustrating thing to figure out. I’ve been trying to figure it out for over two years now, and I’m a little further ahead, but not much. With any luck, the new tools I’m using will unscramble this enigma wrapped in a riddle. But we’ll start here with a simple premise: You spend… Read More…
If you suffer from insomnia, whether it’s short term (transient or acute) or long term (chronic), there are a couple of very important things that you need to know… Identify the Source of the Insomnia For most of us, the insomnia is actually caused or affected by some other agent. We call this co-morbid or secondary insomnia,… Read More…
I know that I’m singing the same tune here, and reinforcing the same idea. The theme of which is that the only real way to control or eliminate your sleeplessness and insomnia is to find a natural method that works for you. There are dozens of things you can do, any one of which (or… Read More…
If you Google the words “insomnia treatment” or “insomnia cure”, you’ll find thousands (for some word combinations, milions) of hits. But they all basically filter down to a few tried and true methods that have worked over the years. Remember that modern medical science has only been after the sleep disorder business for a few decades, so there must have been some techniques people used before that to combat sleeplessness (so, in a nutshell, for most of our existance you either figured it out, or suffered with it, your entire life).… Read More…
