Sleep Health
Sleep is the body’s natural healer.
Without adequate sleep and rest you cannot function properly. It is important to make lifestyle choices that promote wellbeing through prioritising sleep. We spend about one third of our lives sleeping, and this is because our body needs to restore our energy and heal while we sleep, to remain healthy and alert in our waking hours. Your sleeping environment should promote a space for relaxation, with a cool room temperature if possible, or a temperature that makes you feel comfortable to sleep. Darkness is another essential element to promote the right environment for sleep.
Melatonin is a hormone that the Pineal gland in the brain produces in response to darkness, and natural levels of melatonin in the blood are highest at night. High levels can help you fall asleep. It helps with the timing of the circadian rhythm, which is your 24hr clock, and with sleep. Being exposed to light at night can block melatonin production. Melatonin lets you know when it’s time to sleep, wake, and eat. It regulates your body temperature, Blood Pressure and some hormone levels. Melatonin also has other roles in the body beyond sleep. So the production of this wonderful chemical is beneficial for keeping you well.
Scientific Research tells us that poor sleep affects about 50-70 million Americans, and The Australian College of Physician’s (RACP) stated “inadequate sleep is experienced by between 33-45% of Australian adults”.
It is hard to catch up on the debt accumulated from lack of sleep.
There can be many different reasons why people do not have good quality sleep, or find it difficult to drift off to sleep in the first place. Besides medical conditions, Some are lifestyle choices, where we choose alternatives to sleep, higher than sleep itself. But, whatever the reason, inadequate sleep affects our whole being. Your health suffers tremendously over time, and can be the cause of developing serious illness. To name a few, it can cause impaired judgement and mental functioning, deplete your energy, lower your immune system response and decrease productivity and performance. It is hard to catch up on the debt accumulated from lack of sleep.
Lisa will give you the tools and resources to help you to know how to drift into your relaxation brainwaves, from that busy high beta brainwave to alpha, theta then delta. It is essential to put your ‘thoughts’ to sleep first, otherwise the mind will remain too active for a relaxed, deep and nourishing sleep.