Dr. Michael J. Breus: Melatonin: Miracle or Mistake?

Dr. Michael J. Breus: Melatonin: Miracle or Mistake?

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‘Bye-bye Cadbury ~ Hello Bed!’

Nothing feels worse than hearing your alarm clock ring in the morning when your body is screaming for a few extra hours of rest. Given the opportunity, who wouldn’t get more sleep? If I had a choice between a year of unlimited Easter candy and a year of unlimited sleep, I’d say “Bye-bye Cadbury” and “Hello, bed!”

Many people don’t get as much sleep as they should. Since the invention of the light bulb, people sleep about 500 hours per year less than they used to. Whether we’re kept awake by our partner’s snoring or we stay up too late watching TV, we wake up tired, groggy, and cranky.

This is an excellent article.

Thanks for sharing.To read the complete details of The Stunning Consequences of Not Getting Enough Sleep – click here.

Whether you’re the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker, few are immune from insomnia.  So, get a grip on your sleep habits.  Join me for this free sleep improvement teleseminar – Tuesday, Apr. 14 – 5 pm (PST).

For more information and to register, click here.

As always, I wish you improved sleep.

Glenda Sparling – Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

What is Narcolepsy?

In today’s news…

Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. This disorder is characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep. People with narcolepsy experience excessive daytime sleepiness and intermittent, uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep during the day, regardless of the circumstances.

Read the complete article:  http://thetartan.org/2009/3/30/scitech/healthalk

As always, I wish you improved sleep.
Glenda Sparling
Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

Watch for my upcoming free sleep teleseminar – Sleep Without Insomnia – April 14. To register click here.

Economic worries create tossing & turning

Video: Economic woes make it hard to sleep | NBC13.com

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If you’re tossing and turning due to economic stress, join my free sleep solutions teleseminar – April 14 (5 pm PST) – to find out more about the seminar contents and to register, click here.

As always, I’m Glenda, your sleep coach, wishing you improved sleep!
Glenda Sparling – Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

Help! I Can’t Sleep!

Help is on the way!

IT’S 3am and you’ve been tossing and turning throughout the night. You have been trying hard to go to sleep but can’t seem to do it. Even if you do fall asleep, you will be awake 10 minutes later.

You have been suffering from this sleeping disorder for months. Insomnia is the most common sleeping disorder; most of us would have faced this problem at some point of our lives. You can read the complete article at by clicking here. Thanks for sharing!

If you face this challenging problem, join my free sleep improvement teleseminar – April 14 (5 pm PST) – to find out more about the seminar contents and to register, click here.

As always, I’m Glenda, your sleep coach, wishing you improved sleep!
Glenda Sparling – Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

Don’t gain Weight – Gain Sleep!

Hi, I’m Glenda, your sleep coach.  Read on and join my free teleseminar on how to improve your sleep.

They’ve found that there is a link between lack of sleep (poor quality sleep) and weight gain.

You can learn to improve your sleep and loose weight.

Consider joining my free Teleseminar on sleep improvement.  I’m offering this class Tuesday, April 14th. at 5 pm (pacific time – 8 pm eastern time (and everywhere inbetween).

Here’s the link for registration - http://sleepwithoutinsomnia.com/teleseminar.html

Also, take a few minutes to read the following article – Hunger and Sleep – it’s all related.

Bad news for insomniacs: ‘hunger hormones’ affected by poor sleep

As always, I’m Glenda – your sleep coach – wishing you improved sleep.

Glenda Sparling
Author & Sleep Coach
the Spirit of Sleep

Chicken or the Egg? Sleep Disorder/Anxiety Disorder?

Which came first – the chicken or the egg – a perennial question? With sleep, which comes first – the anxiety disorder or the sleep disorder? One feeds the other.

Studies have shown that more than 40 million Americans are suffering from sleep disorders and the number has been increasing. Generally, referred to abnormal sleeping pattern, sleep disorder or insomnia is associated with symptoms such as sleep apnea, sleep walking, falling asleep spontaneously, waking up feeling unrefreshed, waking too early in the morning, trouble falling asleep. In some cases stress or anxiety may trigger such sleep related disturbances. Whatever may be the reason, it is difficult to root out the disease unless the patient undergoes a successful sleep anxiety cure procedure.

Read the complete article – http://www.nicheconquest.com/health-and-fitness/sleep-disorder-anxiety-disorder-and-the-cure.php

Meditation – a Blissful entrance to Sleep

The choice is always yours.  You all know that medications of any kind can cause physiological and psychological dependency.

As an option for sleeping medication, try meditation to calm your mind, body, and spirit prior to bed.

Meditation is the ‘act’ of focusing your mind.  Effective mediation can be of great assistance in stopping the conscious worries of the day and setting up a peaceful consciousness allwoing you to enter into sleep with a relaxed state of mind.

Those of you who have problems getting to sleep or staying asleep, may discover that the addition of an evening meditation just before getting into bed, will assist your mind into a calmer more peacedful state and that getting to sleep will come naturally.

It is also highly recommended that regular, daily mediation will provide consistently more positive results in attaining peaceful sleep.  For instance, it is better to meditate 10 – 15 minutes each night, rather than a 1 hour session every 3 or 4 nights.

As you experience the benefits of regular meditation, you will likely want and desire to increase this amount of time.

Here’s how.  It’s very simple.

• Find a quiet place – no phones, no family interruptions, not too hot – not too cold.
• Relaxing music is nice, but not necessary.
• Wear comfortable clothing.
• So that you don’t fall asleep – sit comfortably in lotus position or if sitting in a chair, sit forward (so that your back is not touching the back rest).  Lying down is not recommended because it is too easy to fall asleep.  Yes, I know…the ultimate purpose is so that you fall asleep, but not at the onset of the meditation.
• Keep eyes closed or half-open, not really focusing on anything.
• Relax your shoulders.
• Rest hands comfortably in your lap.
• If sitting, your feet would be settled flatly and evenly on the floor.
• Now, begin to focus your mind.  What you focus on is up to you and is reflective of the type of mediation you are practicing.  Some focus options are simply following your breath, in and out.  Mentally repeating an easy mantra, or even following the repetitive sound of a beating drum or even your heart beat.
• Be aware of your own mind and thoughts.  However, if you have negative, restless thoughts, acknowledge the thought without giving it too much attention – notice it but don’t get involved.  Mentally, tell it ‘later’.  Or pretend it is a floating cloud or balloon and give a small pinprick to deflate it.
• Decide the minimum time you want to meditate.  Start off with short sessions to begin feeling comfortable.
• Begin calming and clearing the mind – often by focusing on simple breathing.
• Conclude and dedicate – a dedication at the directs positive energy toward your intention and makes an impression on the mind and subconscious.
• For beginners, keep relaxed, don’t push yourself, be patient, don’t expect immediate miracles.
• Medication usually requires a little practice.  What ever you do and for how long you do it, is better than nothing.  A few sessions will generally not undo years of negative habits.  So don’t beat yourself up!
• Be patient and go with the flow.
• Congratulate yourself on your positive effort to improve your sleep.

Meditation is just one of many tools and techniques that may be used for you in recognizing and resolving your sleep challenges.  As one who experienced 23+ years of chronic insomnia, I encourage you to create positive changes in your life and in your choices – meditation is just one of these choices.

For a more complete guide of tools, resources and techniques for improving your sleep, get your free copy of the ebook – the ABZzz’s of Sleeping Insomnia Free.  Just click here.

As always, I wish you improved sleep.
Glenda Sparling ~ Author & Sleep Coach
The Spirit of Sleep

More Losing Sleep Over Recession – No kiddin’!

When your 401K became a 201K, many started having extremely restless nights.  No wonder! That is cause for distress and worry.  Having a ‘worry journal’ and actually using it – meaning writing out all the fears you have, many actually help you to see your way clear to a solution.  It’s definitely worth doing.

More Losing Sleep Over Recession – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver

Hypnosis Help as an Insomnia Cure

The ABZzz’s of Sleeping Insomnia Free literally follows the alphabet to help you improve your sleep. Today’s focus is ‘H’ for hypnosis. Hypnosis may be the perfect solution for you to overcome your troublesome sleepless nights.

When you anticipate getting into bed with a great deal of trepidation because you know you are going to lie awake all night…you have a sleep disturbance.

Or you may be one of the millions who hate to get in to bed because you do fall asleep quickly, but then awaken in the middle of the night (perhaps numerous times) and are unable to get back to sleep.

Often your mind rehashes the events of the previous day. Or you think about all the things that are going wrong in your life. Or you just simply start thinking about all the things you’ve got to do the coming day. Whatever your thoughts, you then start to agonize that you’ve got to get to sleep and get some rest because you’ve got to get up for work soon.

If any of these scenarios above describe you, you have sleep anxiety and ANTS. ANTS stand for automatic negative thoughts. These automatic negative thoughts frequently happen and you don’t even know it. They can be the total destruction of what might otherwise have been a reasonable night of rest.

When you do get up in the morning, you are positive that you haven’t slept for one second all night long. And you feel more exhausted than when you went to bed. There are as many different home remedies to cure your insomnia, as there are reasons why you have the insomnia in the first place. However, it is just possible that a solution that will work for you is nightly guided hypnosis. Regular usage of a nightly guided hypnosis program could bring you just the relief you need. Generally, it will always improve your sleep.

If you feel like you have tried every other trick in the book to aid in falling asleep and staying asleep, including over the counter sleep medications or highly addictive sleeping pills, you might have realized that you develop a tolerance and what once worked no longer has the same affect. If you increase the medications, you simply end up with a groggy and lethargic feeling the next day. With guided hypnosis therapy, it can bring about long-lasting, safe and effective results. And the best part is, you will not have any negative side affects the next morning.

So let us discuss what hypnosis really is. Many folks think that when you are under the influence of hypnosis, that you are asleep. That really is not the case. What is more accurate, is that you need to be awake but in a very deep state of relaxation for guided insomnia hypnosis programs to be effective. Your unconscious is more open and receptive to suggestions when you are in this totally relaxed state.

Successful insomnia-relieving hypnosis programs will offer post hypnotic suggestions for your subconscious to assimilate, which in turn reduces anxiety and tension (the ANTS – automatic negative thoughts that I mentioned above) and will trigger a positive anticipation of restful sleep. Generally, we tend to get what we expect. So if you are expecting positive results, there is a far greater chance of getting positive results, even after the first session. The more you use a guided hypnosis program to treat challenged sleep, the more you will benefit from expectation of relaxation, which will naturally translate into better sleep.

Neutralizing stress, in our bodies and minds, is essential for a self-hypnosis program of treatment to work effectively. With repeated use, self-hypnosis programs will guide you in creating visualizations that can train your subconscious mind to turn off the ANTS that cause the stress. When the disturbed feelings and thoughts are in the ‘off’ position, it makes room for tranquil feelings to be a natural part of your nighttime relaxation.

Self-hypnosis insomnia programs will not be detrimental to you in any way. No hypnotist can make you do, say or think anything you do not wish to. You are always in complete control. That is one of the reasons why a guided insomnia program can be so effective. You are in control! Since you are in the driver’s seat, you will learn that you have the ability to turn off the negative thoughts and replace them with tranquil, relaxing thoughts. A guided insomnia relief program only helps to direct your mind to the peaceful thoughts, not let the rampant negative thoughts take hold.

Creating a space and allowing time before bed to wind down with a guided hypnosis program aimed at overcoming insomnia may end up being just the perfect solution for your current sleep challenges.

Get your complimentary copy of the ABZzz’s of Sleeping Insomnia Free.  Just click here – ABZzz’s

As always, I wish you improved sleep.Glenda SparlingAuthor & Sleep Coach
TheSpiritofSleep