Sufficient and restful sleep is the groundwork for our health and our well-being. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized this: besides exercise and nutrition, the WHO has taken sleep to the three most important pillars of health. Of course, there is an interaction between these three factors of our health, but sleep is considered to have the highest influence.
The well-known sleep researcher Prof. Dr. William C., Dement, Stanford University, has summed up the findings of his 40 years of activity with the following statement: “I have not found any other factor that has a bigger influence on our health and our well-being than our sleep. 90 % of our health depend on sleep!”.
Preconditions
An unbalanced work-life-balance, artificial light-sources, noise and electro-magnetic disturbance factors, wrong diet and too less exercise –- these preconditions are anything else but positive for restful sleep.
Following find simple but effective measurements that support you on your way to restful sleep:
Check your sleep surroundings, your sleeping place, your sleeping underlay:
• Light inhibits production of the sleeping hormone melatonin, noise hinders relaxation and recovery, when the temperatures in the bedroom are too high, our body is not able to cool down the needed 34° F -– factors, that disturb falling asleep and sleeping through. Out of this reason, care for a dark, quiet bedroom at a pleasant temperature, ideally between 61° F and 64° F.
• In the year 1993, the Max-Planck-Institute, Germany, found out, that technically induced radiation is causing stress. Out of this reason, it is important that the sleeping place has an undisturbed earth’s magnetic field. The specially designed earthing-overlay Lokosana® is supporting you here.
• Your sleeping underlay has the most direct influence on your sleep. It is important, that it is made of natural materials and that it offers your body the necessary support for being able to relax. Only a nature-conform bed that consequently meets the requirements of orthopaedics, sleep-biology, bedding-climate and electro-biology will effectively support you!
Observe your daily habits
• Regularly take breaks during your daily routine. Our body underlies many rhythms like the changing of day and night and thereby waking and sleeping, the change of season, etc. Equally, during the day our body has a biologic basic-rhythm of about 90-100 minutes between activity and recovery. Therefore, frequently indulge your body and mind in short breathers. This not only supports stress reduction but also the sleep-wake-cycle, which is necessary for healthy and effective sleep.
• Care for natural, living food and avoid a dinner too late and too extensive.
• Regular movement and sports, ideally in fresh air, are good for body, mind and soul. Ensure, that intense sports activities are not carried out too late in the evening. Your circulatory needs time to calm down and this might make it difficult to fall asleep.
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