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    Sleep Soundly!: Natural Solutions for a Good Night's Sleep
    Sleep Soundly!: Natural Solutions for a Good Night's Sleep
    Sleep Soundly!: Natural Solutions for a Good Night's Sleep
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    Sleep Soundly!: Natural Solutions for a Good Night's Sleep

    By James A Voketaitis and Dr. Mitchell G. Proffman

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    Chronic sleep debt/deprivation can impair your health, functioning, safety, and pocketbook. SLEEP SOUNDLY offers you a wealth of easy, practical, natural ways to help you get a better night’s sleep—without reliance on sleep drugs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJun 3, 2014
    ISBN9781483530765
    Sleep Soundly!: Natural Solutions for a Good Night's Sleep

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      Sleep Soundly! - James A Voketaitis

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      UNDERSTANDING SLEEP

      What is sleep? The answer is complex and fascinating, as you will see in this chapter.

      Some of the sections in this chapter get pretty technical, and you may be tempted to skip the more scientific explanations of your sleep patterns. This is fine—go ahead and move on to the rest of the book, which offers practical, natural solutions to sleep problems. But I hope you will take the time to circle back to this chapter. Why? Because the deeper your understanding of what is really going on inside you when you sleep, the better you will be able to implement the changes I am suggesting to help you improve your rest, and to determine which ones are most likely to work for you.

      Also, you’ll be able to amaze your friends with your newfound knowledge!

      THE PURPOSES OF SLEEP

      Have you ever thought about how much time you invest in sleep? Well, if you average eight hours a night of sleep, the math is easy. That’s one third of your life. That’s right, one third of your life! I’d also like you to consider that after two-thirds of a day’s activities, the body’s natural reaction is not just rest and repose, but a departure from a conscious awareness of our surroundings. We literally shift into a different mental state from our normal waking state.

      For a long time medical doctors and scientists believed that sleep was simply a profound state of rest, the result of a hard day’s work. It was thought of as a passive activity. You turn out the lights at night and then turn them on in the morning, with rest being followed by wakefulness. Nothing was supposed to be going on during sleep. Not true! In actuality a lot is going on while we are sleeping. We now know that sleep is used to regenerate our physiological functions; to repair the wear and tear of the day; to consolidate learning and memory; and to facilitate growth and healing—among other activities essential to a healthy life.

      Do you know you are sleeping while you are sleeping? The answer is no; usually we don’t know we are sleeping. Sometimes if we are sort of sleeping, we might get the sense that we are at least trying to fall asleep. Once we do fall asleep, however, we are not conscious of the fact that we are sleeping. This is part of the reason it is so difficult to identify the problems we may be having with sleep.

      The actual time it takes to fall asleep can vary. When we do fall asleep, however, we move from the outer world to the inner world in a millisecond. That’s right, it happens quickly, and our bodies go into a sort of light coma. The muscles relax, the mind shifts, and the brain starts acting differently. The difference is like night and day. (Pun fully intended.)

      If you are tossing and turning, you aren’t sleeping. If you are falling asleep the moment you set your head on the pillow, you are overtired. In order to help us understand what we need to do to overcome these problems and restore a healthy balance, we need to understand some of what goes on inside our bodies throughout the day, as well as when we are getting ready to retire for the night.

      A BRIEF HISTORY OF SLEEP

      Our sleep patterns have evolved gradually over the years, and you may be surprised to learn that for earlier generations, the night wasn’t only reserved for sleeping. In prehistoric times, when people spent the night in caves for protection from predators, it’s likely that some activities took place during the night, between sessions of sleep. By the twelfth century, English guilds had to go so far as to prohibit working at night. Night work must have been common, for in spite of the prohibition, many towns and villages during the Middle Ages did business at night. In our modern cities, many businesses or areas of the city stay open all night—nightclubs, convenience stores, and so on. We also see night shifts in factories, and all-night hours in such public-service facilities as hospitals and police stations.

      It was not until the modern era that nocturnal labor became more common. But the majority of us still wish to spend the night sleeping. Night offers us a sanctuary from our ordinary existence, and our hectic

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