You need sleep for optimum wellbeing and for the healthy maintenance of your body and your brain. Sleep is as important as nutrition and exercise and crucial for healing and recuperation, which is why treatment for insomnia is so important. It may come as a surprise then that almost everyone is effected with an inability to sleep…
SO WHY ARE YOU TOSSING AND TURNING ALL NIGHT? Stress is the most common trigger as one of the causes of insomnia. When your body is stressed, increased stress hormones such as adrenalin and cortisol are produced, which keep your body on high alert and in turn keep you awake. So if it takes you a while to nod…
Definition of insomniaInsomnia is defined as a distressing and persistent difficulty with falling asleep, (sleep-onset insomnia), difficulty staying asleep, including waking up too early (sleep-maintenance insomnia) and poor quality fragmented sleep.In short, if you are taking longer than 30 minutes to get to sleep, more than three times a week for over a month, then…
WELLNESS INTERIORS – A FUSION OF SCIENCE + MEDICINE + TECHNOLOGY + DESIGN Caring for health and wellbeing is no longer just about visiting the doctor or natural health practitioner. It’s about finding ways to prevent disease and disharmony in the first place. Research has found that the built environment where you live, work and play,…
Sleep is something the majority of people take for granted, that is of course until the day they find themselves with a bad bout of insomnia. Then it can become an ongoing daily battle, with obsession sometimes setting in, in turn leading to a whole new set of problems such as depression, breakdown in relationships,…
Just as the old adage say, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to never go to bed angry. A sure fire way for me to have a bout of insomnia is to fight before bed. Fighting hypes up the fight or flight adrenal glands and surges of adrenalin and…
There are different types of insomnia which present itself as difficulty maintaining sleep, difficulty initiating sleep, early waking, non restorative sleep or worse still a combination of each. I will address here difficulty falling asleep. Causes of this include: psychiatric influences such as anxiety or tension whereby insomnia could be the symptom of recent worry…
It took me years to realise that I am allergic to garlic. Not allergic in the traditional sense, more that every time I have garlic I’m stimulated as though I have had twenty cups of coffee. Whenever I used to eat out I’d return home and be unable to get to sleep. One night lying…
It seems that everyone is jumping on the sleep bandwagon. And it makes sense because we spend a good part of everyday in bed. I am going to make today’s post short and sweet because it reflects the simplicity of the website rectangle.co a company that specialises in linen sheet sets. What better excuse to sleep…