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Can't sleep? Here you'll find ideas for how to sleep better using energy healing and other natural, alternative tools and tips for getting the rest you need.
Poor quality sleep leaves us feeling foggy-headed in the morning—sometimes through the whole day. It reduces mental sharpness and emotional resilience and makes our muscles ache. It also has a huge impact on our physical health. Long-term poor sleep:
Sleep is kind of like a wonder drug, except with no co-pays or side effects.
Here's a technique to try.
If you're lying in bed with your brain whirling, place your thumbs on your temples and rest your fingers comfortably on your forehead, where (on many people) there are two slight bumps. Hold them there, breathing slowly and evenly until you fall asleep.
If you need instructions, you can learn how to belly-breathe here.
On an energetic level, I think that giving up your resistance to being awake somehow breaks up an energetic blockage, a sort of a shell that hardens around being awake and keeps it in place.
You can get inexpensive i-phone applications that allow you to customize sound tracks with the kind of brain-wave binaural beats that you want -- in this case delta waves to help you sleep better. (But you can also choose alpha waves for relaxation, theta waves for creativity and meditation, and beta waves for alertness.)
Or try out this free on-line resource that allows you to customize a mix of soothing sounds, such as the ocean, birds, a steady drum beat, etc., AND add to it binaural beats for the brain state you want to achieve -- in this case, sleep. You set a timer, press start, and away you go: http://www.soundsleeping.com/index.php
You can also buy or download wonderful delta-wave sleep-promoting CDs from The Relaxation Company.
Dr. Weil also makes these recommendations for restless leg syndrome, the maddening twitching that prevents some people from resting deeply:
And here are more energy healing resources for how to sleep better from the Traditional Chinese Medicine point of view
The fix: It's very unlikely that what you're doing is more important than sleep. Especially, stop with the electronics before bedtime. The blue light they emit is a signal to your body to wake up! Make a sleep chart or set up an accountability buddy to keep you on track. Love yourself enough to prioritize this magic healer called sleep, and go to bed.
The fix: Pain usually improves with good sleep, but what if pain is preventing you from sleeping well? Here's a link to some energy healing ideas for pain. Also, Google "anti-inflammatory diet" and adopt it. Sugar and alcohol are low-hanging fruit here.
The fix: Go to your doctor, get diagnosed and follow the prescribed treatment (usually a C-PAP machine).
The fix: Noise? Get a white-noise machine. Light in your bedroom? Fix it. Whatever the problem, love yourself enough to solve it.
Image by Eugenie Gershoy [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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