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Root Causes of Insomnia

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Insomnia refers to a persistent inability to fall asleep or stay asleep, despite a person’s best efforts. Any sleep disturbance that lasts over three weeks may be considered insomnia. Insomnia can have many root causes, and many solutions, too. It is estimated that 64 million people suffer from insomnia. Thinking about that statistic can be enough to keep you up at night!

Chronic insomnia can be caused by many different things. Insomnia can be a symptom of an underlying medical condition, or it can be caused by stress in your life or anxiety. Insomnia treatment should target the root cause of the chronic insomnia. Some people choose to using medication for insomnia, such as Ambien; but using Ambien for insomnia can also make the problem worse, as you may begin to feel anxiety that you will not be able to sleep without your medication. It can be helpful to discuss your insomnia with your doctor, to make sure that you don’t have symptoms of another more serious medical condition, such as arthritis, migraines, prostatic hypertrophy, or menopause, all of which may cause insomnia and also require additional medical attention.

Common Causes of Insomnia

People that use nicotine, alcohol, and even some prescription drugs used for allergies and asthma, are at a higher risk for insomnia. Those who keep erratic hours, shift workers for example, also suffer from frequent insomnia as they try to keep their bodies and sleep schedules regulated. On the other hand, people who are especially sedentary or quiet may also experience insomnia as they do not have enough stimulation.

How to Treat Insomnia

Insomnia treatment often involves beginning with focusing on establishing good sleep hygiene and good sleep habits. Learning relaxation techniques and changing certain lifestyle habits can help improve insomnia dramatically. Recommendations include limiting noise and light from your sleeping area. Try using room darkening shades. Perhaps a fan will help drown out noise if you have close neighbors, a crazy work schedule, or live near a highway or an airport.

Try to establish a good bedtime routine

Unwind before bed with a good book or a television program you enjoy. Generally avoid watching television in bed, though, this can keep you up much later than you intended. Avoid things like exercise, eating, confrontation, alcohol, or smoking before you turn in for the night. However, an early-evening walk and a healthy snack may have positive effects a few hours later when you try to sleep.

Many people suffer from insomnia at some point in their lives. Those that experience chronic insomnia are all too familiar with the anxiety insomnia can causeonce you wake up in the middle of the night, you instantly start to worry that you won’t fall back asleep. Lack of sleep is listed for many as one of the biggest causes of stress, anxiety, poor job performance, and relationship issues. Understanding some of the causes, and learning about some of the non-medicinal treatments that can cure insomnia can help insomnia sufferers get a good night’s rest.

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Insomnia Cures: the Search Continues

Missing those precious moments of sleep?  Me too, and we are not the only ones.  Insomnia is a monster that lurks around shadows and jumps out to rattle our day.  The search to slay the monster is the search for Insomnia Cures. 

Since the dawn of time people have suffered from Insomnia and have been looking for ways to defeat the monster and allow themselves to rest, recoup, and regenerate.  Not only regenerate their bodies and minds: but also their lives.  Living with a lack of sleep feels like being punished for something we have no control over.  Insomnia creates a life for its sufferers in which it seems like they are living out their days in a complete haze.  With people coming and going, and not remembering what you just talked about.  It’s like having your life pass you by in conversation.  Your life moves along as you stand still.  Dealing with everyday pressures without the energy sleep provides, is like fighting a battle that was lost before it even began.  Insomnia morphs your real life into your dream.  Every day starts to feel like you are living a real life dream.  It is as if your life has been turned upside down and inside out.  Insomnia changes your normal life to a bizarre world where everything is the same, but altogether different.  For those who are fighting the monster called Insomnia, this is all too real.  You are not alone my friend.

Going long periods of time without sufficient sleep causes many things to change in the way you go about your day.    At first this may seem odd and even frightening.  And it is, believe me.Â�  Thus, always remember you are not alone in fighting the monster.  Insomnia interrupts so many peopleâ��s lives that you have to believe that suffering with Insomnia is normal as living without it. 

Living with the constant feeling of sleepwalking through life has made me feel like a stranger in my own body.  I feel like an Insomnia Zombie.  I think that term, Insomnia Zombie, nicely sums up the way I feel most days.  Walking around and trying to live your life the best that you can.  At the same time feeling as if the world is against you or that you are fighting an uphill battle that cannot be won.  It can be won and will be won! 

With the amount of people suffering from Insomnia, there is an equal amount of tired people searching for any Insomnia Cures.  With today’s technology and most apparent, the Internet, finding solutions to problems has gotten easier.  When I first started lose sleep, it was only a few hours at a time that would disappear from my sleep repertoire.  Then those few hours I was losing turned into full night’s sleep lost.  I wasn’t just losing a couple of hours of sleep anymore; I in turn wasn’t sleeping at all.  Not to say I wasn’t tired, on the contrary, I was extremely exhausted and wanted sleep like an alcoholic wanting its bottle.  I became cranky and disillusioned.  I spent my entire day being tired beyond belief but could not do anything to remedy it.  I use to say to myself, ‘there has to help out there�€, and I was right.  That is when I turned to the World Wide Web and found a community of fellow sufferers, and every member of this community was trying to kill the monster.  Knowing the Monster of Insomnia could be killed or at least wounded, made me feel better about my situation.  I am not alone and I do not have to suffer a lone, nor do I need to find a solution to this problem all by myself.  I have a community of people that share a common goal: slay the monster of Insomnia.

Give me my sleep, give me my life.  I truly believe those words.  Learning to live with Insomnia is not an answer for me, nor should it be for you.  I deserve to fall asleep when I so desire, and I have a right to.  It is my sleep, I deserve it, give it to me.  But as we all know, there is no communication with Insomnia, or even a chance to negotiate with it.  It is here, and it is a monster.  Trying to yell at Insomnia is like trying to yell at a wall.  It will not answer, nor will it even acknowledge you.  What you have to do is knock that wall down!   The wall can come down and the monster can be defeated.  All analogies aside, Insomnia hurts all of its sufferers, and we do not want to suffer any longer.Â� Suffering with Insomnia is a temporary way of living. 

There are many sufferers of Insomnia, and thus have brought a lot of people searching for Insomnia Cures.  Together we can defeat the monster of Insomnia.

Insomnia cures are out there for us to have. 

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Are You Doomed to Poor Sleep

Are You Doomed To Poor Sleep?

 

You were not born with insomnia and you did not suffer insomnia when you were 10 years old; it just sneaked up on you later on in life due to stress, or an illness or you cultivating sleep destroying habits.  The good news is you can regain your healthy sleep pattern.

 

Have you had insomnia for such a long time that you now consider it as being part of who you are, have you condemned your self to sleepless nights forever?

 

Even after just a few nights of sleeplessness we start to wonder anxiously if we will ever sleep normally ever again.   The problem is, if you are convinced you are doomed to sleeping poorly, you will sleep poorly.  

 

When sleep is concerned, the mind is king, and the belief that you can’t sleep and are doomed to poor sleep leads to helplessness, anxiety, stress and insomnia.

 

You were not born with insomnia and there is no reason why you should live with it.  You did not suffer insomnia when you were 10 years old; it just sneaked up on you later on in life due to stress, or an illness or you cultivating sleep destroying habits.

 

Insomnia is not a disease, it is simply a fact that you have momentarily lost your balance (even if that moment lasts for 15 years) and it is important for you to understand and see that it is possible for you to recover that balance and regain sound sleep without resorting to sleeping pills or a whole host of things that do not work or give temporary relief.

 

If you are worrying your nights away, having trouble sleeping or if you wake during the night watching the “merry go round” start all over again, the “worry habit” is high on your list of suspects.  Anxiety and chronic worrying are deeply ingrained mental habits that destroy your sleep, but the good news is, mental habits can be changed.   One thing you need to do to get out of the worrying habit and anxiety and shift to a mindset conducive to sleep is to:

 

·        Let your mind slow down.

 

·        Focus on your breathing

 

�·Â      �� Relax different parts of your body

 

·        Imagine yourself relaxing in a warm beautiful setting like lying on the beach looking at the sea, at the clouds, at the sky and  let your mind wander

 

·        Use Insomnia Buster Track in the evenings, even if its purpose is not to put you to sleep.  - you can check this out on their website -  Most people including myself just use it for relaxation which I find it works extremely well, it very often sends me to sleep.

 

·        Use the Fall Asleep Track when you are ready to go to bed and focus on the pulses.  Don’t try to fall asleep, instead focus your attention on the pulses and notice how they are gradually getting slower.�� Allow your mind to wander and allow your body to feel progressively more and more relaxed

 

Keeping your attention on something as dull as the pulses will be increasingly difficult, especially since they will help your brain to downshift” and leave the realms of fast beta thought inducing brainwaves to go into a progressively calmer and calmer state of mind.   This works like magic.  Try it and see how soon you drift away.

 

Change your beliefs about sleep – “I can’t get to sleep” becomes a fulfilling prophecy.

Change your sleep habits

Train your brain to fall asleep with the Fall Asleep Track (the most and effective sleep tool I have come across so far). - You can learn more on this in the Free PDF Report on Sleep.   If you would like to get your hands on one email me at:  

Have an evening routine that makes a transition from daytime to night time.   You need to let your brain activity subside during night time by making it a habit to unwind with things like meditation, relaxation etc.

Take it easy and avoid strenuous activity less than 3 hours prior to bedtime.

Avoid confrontation or task that taxes your brain, fill it with chitter chatter or causes you anxiety.

Bore yourself to sleep by doing mundane tasks like paper work or reading a text book

Take a warm dissolving and relaxing bath.   Your body temperature will rise at first but it will ease drastically helping to send you to sleep.

Make your bedroom cosy and harmonic (the cosier the better) and make it a room just for sleeping and making love.

Avoid things that tell your brain to engage in activities

Make sure you have silence external noises can disrupt your sleep

Make your room as dark as possible in the evening (use dimmer switches if possible).   Sleep mask is also an excellent idea for blocking out light.

Cool sleeping room - your room temperature should be 65-70% F

Use “Fall Asleep Track”(this can be found at

Wake up at about the same time every day (your sleep clock needs a fine tune cue)

 

Email me at  sleepandstressnurse@googlemail.com for free sleep report on Sleep& Anxiety

 

See you next week with my next topic on Stress and Anxiety and have a new enjoyable sleep in the future.

 

Mrs A Boadu

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