Care For Your Sleep

While we are asleep, many of our body systems and organs work for rejuvenating our tissues and restoring energy we spent during the day. However, all of us want to wake up rested and good looking. It is very common for all modern ladies to wear night cream in order to assist the face skin improve its quality during the night’s sleep. What else can we do to look fresh and gorgeous in the morning?

1. Always have time for a sufficient amount of sleep. Go to sleep as early as you can: melatonin production in our brain peaks between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m., and the earlier we start involving it in its normal activities, the less effects of stresses we will face, the less destructive effects of free radicals we will experience and the younger our tissues will be.

2. Try to solve maximum of your problems before going to bed. This can be said about both psychological and physical problems. If you have some issues or matters to think about, try to do that thinking before going to bed, and find the most effective solutions for your problems before the bedtime. Also, if you have any type of aches or other health problems, use your medications in 20-30 minutes before the bedtime.

3. Before going to bed, apply a face mask. Use your favorite nourishing or moisturizing face mask: it will have both positive effects on your skin and help you relax.

4. Be sure that your night skin care product are 100% fit to your skin type. The best way is to use a special night restoration cream: it will not only nourish and moisturize your skin, but also revive and rejuvenate it. Do not place too much of cream on your face, it will close your pores and not allow your skin breath at night.

5. Practice a special calming down ritual before going to bed. Take a warm shower or bath with several drops of your favorite essential oil blend. Massage your belly using gentle clockwise movements, which will assist better evacuation of the wastes from your stomach and bowels.

What we see in out dreams is a direct reflection of our life problems and our psychological health, says Lauri Quinn Loewenberg, who calls herself a Dream analyst. After spending years in studying the most common sleep patterns and types of dreams, Lauri Quinn Loewenberg has revealed 5 most common types of dreams and their meaning.

According to her findings, those who see buildings, tall or small, in their dreams should understand those building as their mental power or psychological strength. The bigger the building, the stronger you are. Seeing a building in fire means that you are experiencing a strong psychological or physical stress which requires immediate solution.

Seeing an automobile in your dream symbolizes your abilities to develop on personal or professional levels, as well as your abilities to succeed and move forward. At that, Loewenberg is convinced that those who see in their dreams that the breaking system of the car is broken, in real life are overdoing something or doing something wrong.

Seeing blood in your dream is a sign of your physical and emotional energy. If the blood you see in your dream is very red and bright, you are feeling powerful and strong to solve many problems and difficulties in your life. But if you see that you are losing blood in your dream, it can mean that your energy is going away from you body and you should do something to renew it.

If you see yourself drowning in waters, it can mean that you are under certain pressure of the responsibility you’ve taken. Loewenberg says that water is a great symbol of human emotions, and if we see it in our dreams, it means that we are under the power of our emotions. Especially is water comes as a threat to our life in our dream, means that we are under a great effect of our emotions.

Finally, if you see yourself falling down in your dream, it means that a long-term depression is waiting for you. This way your unconscious warns you that there’s something that makes you sad or dissatisfied, therefore you need to do everything possible in order to change the situation for better.

The most updated statistics says that every one of three people suffer from occasional or chronic insomnia, and there’s hardly an adult person in the world, who is not familiar with any of sleep disturbances. Sleep difficulties and insomnia are much less common in men than in women, and if modern young people more tend to have problems with falling asleep when it’s the bedtime, the elderly are most likely to suffer from frequent waking ups at night and having problems with falling asleep again. The scientists are concerned and go on looking for effective natural sleep aid for all age groups.

Recently, the results of an interesting and very promising study were published in the Journal of Medicinal Food. The specialists at the University of Rochester, the University of Pennsylvania and VA Center of Canandaigua united their forces for studying possible effects on sleep duration of such common natural product as tart cherry juice. This delicious berries are famous for their high content of melatonin, a type of antioxidant responsible for sleep cycle duration. This substance can induce sleep and improve wakefulness in the morning.

A group of 15 volunteers was invited to participate the studies. Adult people who suffered from chronic insomnia were offered to drink a glass of fresh unsweetened tart cherry juice twice a day: in the morning and before the bedtime. At that, some participants were given a similar type of fresh juice mix with no tart cherry juice. The trials lasted for 14 days, and as a result, those who were regularly receiving tart cherry juice treat on a daily basis reported about certain improvements in their sleep quality. Also, their sleep cycle increased for 17 minutes in average.

These results made millions of insomnia victims hopeful about receiving a new effective natural remedy for this terrible problem in the nearest future. An American specialist Dr Russel Reiter, of the University of Texas, says that this study could help to find out the ways to stimulate body’s supply of melatonin, necessary to boost sleep. “Cherries may help regulate the sleep cycle and increase sleep efficiency, including decreasing the time it takes to fall asleep,” he commented on the importance of the findings of the study to American mass media.

It is a known fact that some of us like going to bed early and waking up with the first rays of sun. Those people are called “larks”. Other type of people are celled “owls”: those, who like staying awake far after midnight and then sleeping till the afternoon. Such behavior is based on special biological cycle we all repeatedly live through. At that same time, abut 65% of people are “indifferent”, so they do not behave neither as “larks” nor “owls”.

Certainly, scientists are constantly studying behaviors of “owls” and “larks”, and recently, American specialists published the results of their new research showing that those people who love going to bed late at night and sleep till noon more frequently complain of heart problems. This occurs even in the cases when “owls” actually have enough of sleep, or more than 7-8 hours a night.

250 participants took part in the experiments and studies, and scientific evidence was found proving that “owls” have higher chances for cardiovascular diseases. Indirectly, these results show that going to bed earlier, sleeping sufficient amount of time and waking up early in the morning is actually healthy. This is not the first study proving this idea. In particular, according to another study, those women who sleep less than 5 hours a day have 39% higher risks of diabetes than those women who sleep about 8 hours a day.

Many of us are very well-familiar with a wide range of negative effects of insomnia. Those include a terrible feeling of fatigue and restlessness, body aches, headaches, drastically reduced energy levels, slowed down mental functions, lack of attention and inability to focus, resulting in decreased performance and lack of success in daily life, mood swings, irritability, depression and other emotional problems, as well as many many more, depending on personal factors and personality type of every one of us. This reactions we all experience after sleepless nights can affect our entire life to a great extent.

To make the situation worse, nowadays, the specialists could add one more negative effect of a lack of sleep, which is paranoid thoughts. Nice isn’t it? Just like we were lacking problems and bad reactions of our body on chronic insomnia. This week, Dr Daniel Freeman from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London presented the findings of his new research at the Cheltenham Science Festival. He told that insomnia is linked to developing a stable feeling that other people are trying to cause harm or control us. In other words, chronic insomnia is linked to paranoid thoughts and unjustified  fears of being harmed by other people.

According to a research, carried out by a group of British specialists leaded by Dr. Freeman,  which involved 8,580 adults, those who experience constant lack of sleep reported that within only a month or two their mental condition has worsened, and they have fears that people around tend to harm them. Such paranoid thoughts were registered in about 21% of the participants who suffered constant insomnia, and 9% or them reported that they’d believed in the existing control over their thoughts by outside forces. In addition, 1,5% of chronic insomniacs said that their feelings of anticipating a potential serious harm from other people were sometimes really disturbing.