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Hints for a better sleep

23. September 2015 von Redaktion Leave a Comment

More than a quarter of all grown-ups is suffering under regular sleep disturbances. It doesn’t matter whether they are due to stress, physical cause or mental illness –- if you follow some easy hints you will take a huge step towards healthy sleep without outside help.

• When you are not able to sleep, in no case stay in bed, wide awake. When you are going to bed before being tired it might happen that you are lying awake in bed for several hours. This often leads to brooding –- and falling asleep gets even harder. Do something very boring instead.

• The bed is for sleeping. When you are working, eating, reading …. in bed, this signalizes activity to the brain. Now, if you want to sleep –- for the brain, the bed is a symbol for waking up, not for getting tired, like it should be. The only activity you should practice in bed is sex. Sex is supporting falling asleep since it makes you tired and is relaxing our body.

• Light is essential. When you are getting a lot of light during the day, you are producing more sleeping hormones. This makes it important to care for getting enough light at any time, even during the winter. During the summer take advantage of the sun, in the wintertime a lamp –- preferably with daylight-spectrum –- will have to help out.

• Sport is supporting, but only at the right time. When you are exercising too less, you don’t consume enough energy and very often are too awake for sleeping. Sport and exercise are important for a good sleep. But: when you are doing exhausting sport activity too late in the evening the body has not enough time to calm down the circulatory system until going to bed. This is the reason for restlessness and sleeplessness.

• Not only a high-quality sleeping underlay but also an ideal bed room enhances sleep. Darkness and proper room temperature are important. Already smallest possible sources of light might disturb our sleep. And, a cooler bed room is better than a warm one — heat and sweating mostly lead to waking up.

• There exists a wide spread misbelief: namely, alcohol enhances sleep. But, alcohol is not only harming our health but is also disturbing our sleep. It would be better to take a cup of camomile, hops or melissa-tea or a glass of milk with honey.

• Get used to go to bed at a certain time. This allows the body to learn when the perfect time for getting tired is.

• Like we have heard, it is only possible to fall asleep when you are tired. If this means, you have to go to bed after midnight although you have to get up early in the morning, pretty soon your body will signalize you that the amount of sleep is insufficient and will get tired earlier. And hence this will lead to being able to go to bed earlier and get more sleep.

Healthy sleep | the biggest health- and lifestyle-project

31. August 2015 von Schlafexperte Prof. Dr. med. h.c. Günther W. Amann-Jennson Leave a Comment

Apart from the necessity to imperatively learn to sleep better again, trend researchers have dealt with this phenomenon. Prognosis of the well-known Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Switzerland, that spends time on trend researches, are very interesting. Here, people are convinced that healthy sleep is going to develop itself to the biggest health- and lifestyle-project in the 21st century.

The Gottfried Duttweiler Institute explains: “Soon, healthy night’s rest is going to have the same importance like healthy nutrition has nowadays. Thanks to the progress in sleep science, consequential damages of lack of sleep and sleeplessness are increasingly well-known: too less sleep is fattening, makes stupid and sick, only healthy sleep regenerates body and mind.

Here, a growing potential for new offers like better sleeping remedies, sleep accessories, sleeping programs, sleep cures, dream-diaries or sleep consulting arises.

So, from an essential body function sleep becomes a central factor in our personal health- and lifestyle-program. Particularly because the need to rest is constantly rising in our society that is getting older: when you are older, you are getting tired faster.”

Actually, in society, this trend is noticeable since years and the interest in a healthy and above all in the nature-driven bioenergetic sleep® is constantly growing!

In addition to that, the need to rest is really growing when getting older. This need to rest can’t be ensured by sleeping longer but only with an enhancement of sleeping quality. Or better: with a short, bioenergetic sleep® during the day and the full compliance to the wake-sleep-dream-rhythms.

Sleep disturbances – a widespread disease

20. August 2015 von Schlafexperte Prof. Dr. med. h.c. Günther W. Amann-Jennson Leave a Comment

A lot of mental and physical diseases might change the duration of sleep. Chronical lack of sleep, sleep disturbances and no longer restful sleep are frequent problems and in turn might cause or favor themselves mental and physical health disturbances. In the western industrial countries we must assume that about 50 % of the population has sleep disturbances and biologically insufficient sleep. About 10 % of them have a chronical one and therewith require treatment of their sleeping disturbance. By the way, there are more than 90 different forms of disturbed sleep! The most frequent are fall asleep and sleep through disturbances as well as the waking up too early. According to official statistics, only in Germany more than 25 million employed are affected by fall asleep and/or sleep through problems. In total, 36 million complain about an insufficient recreation of sleep, out of these, 24 million additionally suffer under daytime sleepiness and 30 million under too short sleep (sleep debt). In the special ambulatories for sleep medics, physical diseases, mental disturbances, excessive alcohol consumption, medicines and other drugs account for more than two thirds of the sleep disturbances.

Sleep disturbances that last longer than four weeks or occur several times per week are considered to be chronical and need professional clarifying. The list of physical diseases that may cause sleep disturbances or sleeplessness is long: respiratory diseases, diabetes, epileptic fits, heart failure.

But, the most frequent forms of sleep disturbances arise due to wrong sleep hygiene, mistakes and myths around sleep, stress and unconscious mental conflicts or nightly anxiety and “obsessive brooding” with depressive patients or people with anxiety disorders. It is known that working in shifts may disturb the sleep-wake-cycle as well as misuse of alcohol, drugs and intake of medicines. The more medicine has to be taken the bigger the effects on sleeping behavior and the course of the sleep are to be awaited. Further quite frequent sleep disturbances are restless legs — just in the evening when you want to fall asleep, the legs painfully start to itch and twitch. Or sleep-apnoea-syndrome (pathological snoring with respiratory arrest). At the sight of the variety of possible sleep disturbances, urgently measures have to be taken as well for the concerned people as for the arising burden of the health care system. These measures should surpass the often medical or technical remedies. At the same time, one always should focus on cause study.

Accordingly manifold is the range of specialist disciplines that deal with the treatment of sleep disturbance: from sleep medics to psychologists, psycho-therapists and neurologist to specialist for respiratory or heart diseases. Without a cooperative partnership of these different specialist disciplines it is hardly possible to get a successful diagnosis as well as therapy of sleep disturbances. Especially, when it includes information about sleep disturbances as well as holistic and preferably natural approach for removal or sleep enhancement.

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Symptomes and causes of sleep disturbances

22. June 2015 von Schlafexperte Prof. Dr. med. h.c. Günther W. Amann-Jennson Leave a Comment

There are several so-called parameter you can evaluate sleep with especially in the course of polysomnographies. From sleep latency, total sleep duration, course of the sleeping phases (light sleep, deep sleep, REM sleep), the percentage of the single sleeping phases up to sleep efficiency get evaluated with brain waves. In addition, body movements, blood pressure, snoring noises, oxygen saturation of the blood and so an are recorded and analyzed. 6.5 to nine hours of sleep is a common sleeping duration of a grown up, for example. You only talk about sleep disturbances, when the disturbance lasts more than a couple of weeks or a month and is accompanied by tiredness during the day, irritability, depression, anxiety states, inattentiveness, or other symptoms.

In 1828 the German family doctor and later on professor for psychiatry Heinroth, Leipzig, wrote: “Normally, the origin of sleeplessness is psychosomatic, but every phase of life may completely contain the reason for that by itself.”

The possible reasons for sleep disturbances constantly changed during time. Prehistoric men had other sleep disturbing factors than modern civilization nowadays. What stayed the same, are the psycho-biologic mechanisms and prerequisites, especially the harmony of mind and soul. This is an important factor to not let sleep disturbances arise at first place.

More and more, the interdisciplinary conviction emerges, that a direct fight of sleep disturbances by chemical-synthetical substances are missing the real cause of the problem. Only when we accept that sleep disturbances often arise due to daily strain of body, mind and soul and due to adverse general conditions we will be able to steer in a different direction.

So, sleep disturbances may be the consequence of stress and disharmony of body and soul. But, not only our sleep is suffering under stress but the whole human being, too. Meaning, our body, our soul and our mind – our entire condition, our relationships, our performance and above all our attitude towards life.

Sleep disturbances are a serious warning sign; the wisdom of our body tells us more or less distinct that something is wrong in our interconnected body-mind-soul grid.

Basically, sleep disturbances can be split into two causes: the inner and outer causes. Therefore, the remedy of sleep disturbances has to take place via both directions, because only than you can expect to have recreational sleep that regenerates body, mind and soul.

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Organic furnishings debut at dwell on design: SAMINA healthy systems and LUXLET bed frames

11. May 2015 von Claus Pummer Leave a Comment

SAMINA is sleep in its most natural form.

The reason I’m connecting with you today is to invite you to attend this year’s Dwell on Design show (http://www.dwellondesign.com/) where I will be debuting what has become the biggest part of my business today: SAMINA healthy sleep systems and products.
You may or may not recognize me since I’ve had only long distance relationships with many people but if you do remember me it’s probably because I’m the guy with the German accent in Canada from whom you purchased Lambert or my own Pummer brands of home furnishings and furniture. I am still the exclusive North American agent for Lambert, the elegant line of home furnishings from Germany (like me!)

Although I’ve been involved with SAMINA for about 20 years, it was always a secondary business. Today, it has become my primary business since I realized that most of my clients shared something in common: they were stressed out and sleep deprived. The modern lifestyle is a vicious cycle: stress…no sleep…more stress…less sleep. Helping people break the cycle of sleeplessness through my coaching and offering the right “equipment” for sleep, that is, the right bed and bedding not only improves sleep but their entire lives! It is very gratifying work that I’d like to share with you so, especially if it’s been a while, please come to the show or give me a shout and let’s catch up!

All my best for your healthy sleep!
Claus Pummer | www.samina.us

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