Stress and anxiety are not difficult to manage. Relaxation practices may not sound realistic or viable. Many people do not understand how sitting on the floor and raising the arms slowly will improve your health. However, you need to step back and understand the Pavlov effect.
This phenomenon is simply the power to train your brain to respond the way you want it to. Raising and lowering your arms while in the Lotus position have minimal medical benefits on its own, but its ability to train your body to respond the way you want it to is a proven medical fact. Relaxing mediation can reinforce your body's natural sleep-wake cycle.
Insomnia - This results in difficulty falling asleep, waking up regularly in the night, and waking up tired.
Sleep apnia - you stop breathing during sleep that can result in mood and memory disorders. It is caused when muscles at the back of the mouth loose control and cannot keep the air passages open
Brockism - clenching and grinding teeth at night. Some people do this in the day, but others do it at night. This can cause ringing in the ear, headaches, lack of sleep, and pain.
REM Behavior Disorder - people act out their dreams. They talk and move in their sleep. They lack the muscle paralysis that most people experience while sleeping. They often do not feel rested when they wake up in the morning.
RLS, Restless Leg Syndrome - burning, creeping, and tugging in the legs make you want to move them. No one is sure what causes RLS.
Narcolepsy - overwhelming fatigue and seizures can be mistaken for epilepsy and depression.
How Much Sleep Do You Need?
Finding the reason why you are having trouble sleeping is not always easy. One way is to go to bed a few nights without a clock. Sleep until you wake up. This will tell you how much sleep time your body needs. Everyone is different. Some people can experience a good night's sleep in 4 hours. Others need six and even nine hours.
The old wives' tale that people need eight hours sleep, and anything beyond that is laziness is a myth that has been proven several times by medical research.
Sleep Hygiene
Sleep Hygiene is important to a good night sleep. The first thing, only use your bed for sleep and sex. This helps your brain associate the brain with sleep only. There are some reports that claim that people who watch television prior to sleep do not go through all three stages of sleep, or sleep as well.
Avoid caffeine, nicotine and alcohol prior to sleep and do not exercise before bedtime. This can send the brain mixed signals
Train Your Brain to Shut Down
This is a Pavlo theory in practice. It can train your body to fall asleep at the same time every night. If you can't fall asleep after 30 minutes, read a book or listen to music. Do not lay and stare at the wall.
Keeping a regular sleep routine starts before it is time to go to bed. The routine relaxes the body and alerts the brain to switch to sleep mode. This helps it prepare for sleep.
A hot bath can also relax the body and activate the part of the brain that controls the sleep functions.
Also, avoid the 'jet lag syndrome.' People who have sleep problems should not stay awake late to watch a movie or go out to a party. This can mess up their sleep routine, and put their natural sleep-wake routine out of sync.
Insomnia And Sleep Disorders
If you've been reading the papers and paying attention, both of the best selling and most advertised drugs for sleep problems (Lunestra and Ambien) have been causing serious problems for some users. If you really listen to their TV ads, you'll learn that both have various (and dangerous) side effects. As with all drug ads, a "spin" of the facts is done so as to make them seem pretty harmless, but if you listen carefully, these are actually pretty dangerous drugs, not "safe" for many people. (The clever "spin" in these ads does fool most people.)
Insomnia affects many thousands of persons. It is often a component of depression, and/or other "brain problems", such as ADD/ADHD. It was recently estimated that up to 25% of teenagers are not getting sufficient sleep. Many of these are also having attention problems in school as well, even if not diagnosed as ADD or ADHD.
24 million prescriptions were filled for insomnia last year according to Nightly News of NBC. This is a 2 billion dollar business.
Up to now, there have been three alternatives for sleep problems:
1. Suffer with it.
2. See a doctor and get a prescription with possibly dangerous side-effects.
3. Spend large amounts of money on EEG biofeedback (AKA neurofeedback).
Because of the cost of EEG BF, the only real alternative for most families has been prescription drugs. This is the same situation that applies to most "brain problems" - including depression, insomnia, ADD/ADHD and many others.
Now, there's an inexpensive alternative that actually does the same thing that EEG BF does - namely raise one brain wave, and lower another. Most people don't know what EEG BF does, and most of the people getting rich using it don't want you to know the facts and how simple it really is.
There are thousands of audio signals that are actually generated as the brain goes abut its business. Some have compared it to a "Symphony in the brain". These signals are extremely weak, on the order of a few millionths of a volt. As the ability of electronics grew over the last century, it became possible to actually amplify these signals, and to even see and hear them.
Of course, if you just put them on a speaker, it's a cacophony of noise without rhyme or reason. However, as electronic filters were developed, it became possible to filter out all except a narrow band. These were classified by early experimenters into several bands, and partially classified as to what each "band" was doing. It was an attempt to "read minds", but, of course, it didn't succeed.
In 1969, a Dr Sterman found that by raising a small band of waves just above the Alpha brain wave some strange effects were noticed. Later this small band (12-14 Hz (cycles per second) was re-named SMR (Sensory Motor Response) because the "usual" sensor location on the head was over this brain area.
Sterman and many after him found that if the amplitude of SMR was raised, several important effects were noticed. In particular, cats that died from exposure to hydrazine normally didn't die after being trained to raise SMR. Other experimenters found with biofeedback training, some "brain problems" of ADD, ADHD, depression, insomnia, and many others either lessened or were solved!
This was an important clue, because the cats died from anaphylactic shock - that is severe allergy response (well known to people who are highly allergic to things like peanuts, bee stings, etc) When I first found out about EEG BF, I theorized that raising SMR somehow changes the brain affect from allergens. As an Orthomolecular Psychologist, I was very aware that allergy/sensitivity can cause any and all of the "brain problems" such as ADD/ADHD, Depression, Insomnia, and many others, even Schizophrenia.
In 2000, I started a company devoted to lowering the cost of EEG BF so that mid and non-rich families would have an alternate to Ritalin and the rest of those very dangerous drugs. (Again, the cost of "clinical" EEG BF runs upwards of 5000-10,000 dollars.)
In 2004, I suddenly realized that it should be possible to use subliminal messaging techniques to raise the SMR. I set up a volunteer program, and the results showed clearly that both my theories were probable at least.
1. Raising SMR does change the brain affect from allergens.
2. Subliminal Messaging does work in a similar way to raise the SMR.
In other tests from that point up to the latest test ending in March 2006, these two theories were expanded and proven over and over to be correct. The last audio testing used raising SMR as well as lowering of Theta successfully for ADHD cases.
This new use of subliminal message techniques was patented in 2005, and re-named Auditory Brain Wave Training since it is quite different, and much more successful than the older use of subliminal messaging to modify behavior.
To use it is simplicity itself. Simply place a special CD player near the bedside, and turn on every night. For insomnia and sleep apnea problems, most have found that after 2-3 weeks of play, their sleep problems are solved for good. Others keep using the CD every night, as they like the overlay audio keeping out exterior noises, and with further use, it seems that other allergic problems are solved for many.
It's important to realize that in all three tests (using over 100 volunteers), there were NO failures with Insomnia! Over a dozen insomniacs - some who not even listed insomnia on their input data sheets completely solved this particular problem. Other testimonials from recent users confirm this as well.
Depression has been always alleviated, and the ADHD cases all improved in about the same success rate as they would with EEG BF (neurofeedback). At the present time, we do not have good data on schizophrenia, or epilepsy, or anaphylactic shock, however, based on similarity to results to date compared to EEG BF, we expect that this would be similar. We will work with any person or group who is willing to test this new harmless system on these "brain problems".
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