Everything You Need to Know About Healthy Sleeping Habits
March 3rd, 2010 | 
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Sleep is so unique a process. Even with all these researches, no scientists can today accurately tell why living things sleep or what induces sleep. Ayurveda puts great emphasis on sleep and gives you the guidelines of healthy sleeping habits.
The quality and quantity of sleep are equally important. Your selection of hours for sleep is also equally important.
<h2>How Much Sleep Do You Need</h2>
A healthy adult person requires 6-7 hours of sleep. Having a consistent sleeping pattern is also important. Children, old age people, and people suffering from diseases can sleep longer than seven hours.
<h2>When to Sleep</h2>
Sleeping under the moon is good for health while sleeping under the sun is detrimental. That is, sleep during night only. People tired of physical exertion, sex, diseases, etc can sleep during day time too. The best time to sleep is between 10.30 pm and 5.30 am.
<h2>More about Daytime Sleeping</h2>
Day sleeping is harmful to healthy persons, while it is recommended for people are tired after sex, physical exertion, speech, long journey, alcohol consumption, anger, fear, sadness, etc. People suffering from diarrhoea, old people, children, weak people, people suffering from thirst, hunger or pain, etc can sleep during daytime.
Daytime sleeping in not healthful for obese persons; people who take fatty food on a daily basis; people suffering from toxins; and people with throat diseases.
<h2>Sleeplessness or Insomnia </h2>
High atmospheric temperature, old age, diseases, mental disturbances, etc causes sleeplessness. It can cause other health problems like fatigue.
<h2>For a Good Night’s Sleep</h2>
Applying coconut oil or sesame oil on head and whole body before you bath is good for promoting sleep. Massage the bottom of your feet with sesame oil before going to sleep – it can promote sleep and can cure headaches.
<h2>About Use of Sleeping pills</h2>
Ayurveda never recommends use of sleeping pills. Instead of sleeping pills, you can try yoga, meditation, travelling to serene locations and the techniques of bringing your mind to under your control.
Having a balanced lifestyle can help you get normal hours of sleep. Stress causes sleeplessness, which leads to several other problems. Thus, having good amounts of sleep is important for healthy mind and body.
Dev Saras
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I need SOMETHING, and I need it now. Assistance with just what that thing is?
I’m not going to bore you with long paragraphs, rather, I’m going to state all the facts in organized lists. I’m like that.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ IT ALL! Don’t just assume and skim over things. Thanks so much for your time regardless.
1) I am 16 years old. An Earth-Spirit type girl with a cushy but not flabby tummy, average body, big eyes and golden brown hair, standing 5′ 8".
2) Three years ago, I was diagnosed with severe/suicidal depression after a handful of suicide attempts and two run attempts, and was placed in an in-patient facility for a month.
3) Afterwards, I was still depressed, but only a little. By the next year I was healthy and happy again. Everything seemed to be going great.
4) Until now. Now, I’m acting more looney than depressed, giving in to OCD habits, never sleeping the night through because of nightmares or light sleep in general, having extreme worry and anxiety, experiencing place-loss and overall acting WEIRD.
As you just read, I am currently facing some sort of phsychological distress. My symptoms:
- Racing Heart, Clammy Hands, etc.
-Random anxiety in general~ when I’m concentrating on something really hard, all of a sudden I’ll get up and start pacing the house. In the worst case, I dashed outside in the middle of the night and started pacing up and down the driveway in my undies, in thirty degree windy weather, for no apparent reason at all. Sometimes, instead of pacing, I’ll snap and start busting out in song, putting on make-up over and over and over, cleaning my room over and over and over, brushing my hair over and over and over…
-Horrible muscle tension. I’m always twitching or shaking or else tapping my feet or rolling my wrists.
- I can’t sleep. I either stay up all night without a moment of rest, or am troubled by tossing and turning for hours, nightmares, and general light sleep.
-Worry about getting in trouble 24/7. Rather soiciopathic, I hate getting in trouble or yelled at and go out of my way with schemes to make it not happen.
-Fleeting imagination. Being a fiction writer, it’s natural I imagine all sorts of things off and on…But it’s starting to get ridiculous! EVERYTHING I DO becomes fantasy in my mind. When I’m driving to the store, I’m ‘really’ driving to answer an FBI distress call. The chick in the stall next to me is ‘really’ a witch in tote of a spellbook. Everywhere I turn, my mind spins fiction. It won’t stop, and enough is enough!
-I’m both over-eating and under-eating. I skip about two meals a day, and my dinner is often composed of fatty things I crave at the moment. I also eat late into the night, since I’m not sleeping anyway.
-Drug abuse. A few weeks ago, I got sick of my weird anxiety issues and started drinking cough syrup every night because it calmed me down and made me relax, I know it’s awful, but…
-Wanting to do crazy-*** crap. Once in awhile, more often than not, I fantazize about stealing my dad’s car and running away in it. In the most bizarre cases, I fantazize about breaking into people’s houses just to suprise them…for a good laugh, for God’s sake!
Here comes the big kahoona: I’ve never told anyone. At all. Not even my dad. Why? I’m terrified of dissapointing him iin my ‘progress’ by getting reffered to a therapist. I’m even more terrified of a second dose of in-patient treatment.
Somebody please tell me what to do! I’m lost and growing loonier by the minute! Anyone? Please? You have no idea how scared of MYSELF I am right now…I need to figure something out. Anything.
Asking this question here is probably useless. I am sure your problems are real, but they are very complicated. I would strongly advise seeing a professional to give this list of symptoms and behaviors to. I’m afraid here, you will get silly answers, smart asses who will make fun and not find real help.
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You have alot of different issues. First, you are having anxiety attacks that can be controlled by medication with little side effects, You sound as if your cycling (its a term used for bipolar issues and manic depressive people) You need to go see a psychologist and get into therapy and not worry about disappointing your father because he’ll be more disappointed if you do the things that your fantasizing about than the therapy. They may need to put you on medication to curb your thoughts and being suicidal. If you go on your own accord they can treat you out patient but if yo wait til you have a serious episode then you may have no choice but to be treated in patient. You really need to talk to your parents and get help because they love you and want you well and able to function right and you need to seriously get treatment for this ans soon. I hope you consider what I’ve said and do what you have to do for yourself.
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My mother has been ill like that.
I’m only going to respond to one part of this because I’m not your care professional and I don’t know you.
"Here comes the big kahoona: I’ve never told anyone. At all. Not even my dad. Why? I’m terrified of dissapointing him iin my ‘progress’ by getting reffered to a therapist. I’m even more terrified of a second dose of in-patient treatment."
Thing is, if you don’t tell anyone and it keeps getting worse, where are you going to end up?
As an in-patient.
Care professionals want to keep people out of hospital and the sooner you get in contact with them, the quicker they’ll be able to help you, the quicker you’ll get control of all this chaos and the less likely you’ll end up as an in-patient.
I can understand how scary this option seems, but it seems as though things are pretty scary for you anyway and by posting here, it seems like a part of you wants to reach out for help. I think that’s a good move. Tell your dad, call your doctor, go to accident and emergency if things get really bad, just speak out. I promise it’s better than the alternative.
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First, I would invite you to breathe. It sounds a little like you may be taking yourself a bit too seriously. As far as stealing a car and running away, at 16 those thoughts aren’t as uncommon as you would think. Good for you for knowing just how unrealistic of a thought that is.
Second, I don’t know your dad but I am sure that if there was something that needed assistance, he would rather you ask for help than have to have you go back to inpatient.
Understand that some issues may flair up occasionally. That means that you may need to ask for help every now and again. Pat yourself on the back for asking, you are already way down the path to getting more clear. Most people end up not asking for what they need out of shame or guilt, only to create a bigger problem in the long run.
Know that you are ok. Take a breath and when you start to have these thoughts, switch to gratitude….it is hard to feel depressed when you are actively looking for things to feel grateful about.
Check out this site for some info regarding how to get your focus where you would like it, but ask for the professional help. You can never have too much counselling and your dad will probably thank you for it.
http://www.pacingoutcomes.com
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http://www.pacingoutcomes.com