What would it mean for you, if just 8 WEEKS from now, you were able to STOP lying awake or tossing and turning all night, or waking up too early or in pain every morning? If you were regularly sleeping properly again, what difference would it make, to your life?
Well ok, then... let's make it happen!
WHAT HAS YOUR BODY BEEN TELLING YOU LATELY?
OUR BODIES ARE TALKING TO US ALL THE TIME!
"Every living creature is a true miracle of science - an incredibly complex set of interconnected systems that constantly work together to regulate the stability of the different internal functions that keep those systems on an even keel. If we're too hot, too cold, thirsty, hungry, agitated or unwell, one or another of our body systems will always let us know.
Sleeplessness is very often a symptom of something else that's wrong. Successful healing comes directly from our ability to understand exactly what our bodies are saying, so we need to be in tune with them, to understand some of the other, less obvious ways in which they're trying to communicate with us. Insomnia is one of those direct communications.
Healing sleep deprivation greatly enhances our ability to understand what our bodies need." Maxine Cook - Health Consultant
OK, SO WHY'S SLEEP SO IMPORTANT, THEN?
NOT SURPRISINGLY, IT'S ALL IN THE SCIENCE...
- Part of the miracle that the human body represents is its ability to take us to a level of sleep where we heal from a wide variety of biological, physical and emotional challenges that occur simply in the course of how we live. We are biologically designed to reach a certain, baseline level of sleep where repair and restoration occurs, to our cells and all of our other interconnected systems.
- It is this level of sleep that helps us to maintain healthy systems, including hormone regulation, and a robust immune system - two of the vital functions that drive the state of our health. It's not difficult to achieve good sleep quality but people who have fallen out of the habit of sleeping properly and have started suffering from sleep deprivation in different ways do benefit significantly from getting expert support to provide treatment for sleep disorder and get them back on track permanently.
- It's a well-researched fact that long-term insomnia damages long term health. Sleep plays a vital role in supporting the body's intricately connected functions. Increasing scientific research clearly shows that when people don't get the sleep their bodies are biologicallly designed to achieve, their mental and physical systems take a battering, to the level where systemic function is compromised.
- A damaged immune system compromises the body's ability to deal with infection, inflammation, bacteria, and viruses that can eventually trigger auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, MS, IBS, and Diabetes (Type 1). In addition, chronic sleep deprivation is being increasingly linked to anxiety and depression, and the development of certain neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimers, Motor-Neurone Disease and Parkinson's Disease.
- Where insomnia was previously thought to be a symptom of these disorders, a growing body of research suggests that it may in fact be the cause.
So... What Causes Insomnia?
There are a ton of different reasons why people start to have problems sleeping!
- In most cases, insomnia starts with some kind of trigger. You might not even be aware of what it was.
- The human brain can literally "forget" how to sleep well, thanks to a variety of influencing variables that are always unique to each person.
- That's why some "treatments" will work well for some people but not so well for others!
- Each person has their own personal contributing factors, which conspire together to prevent good sleep. Understanding your own unique barriers will help you successfully retrain your brain to sleep properly.
RIGHT!! SO WHAT'S ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN SLEEPING WELL AGAIN?
- Happily, for most people, sleep disorder is relatively easy to treat. Barring an underlying medical condition that would need to be investigated, the vast majority of people - even those who haven't slept properly for years - can be trained to sleep well again in a matter of around 8-10 weeks. The three most important contributing factors to the success of any Sleep Protocol are time, commitment to the process, and their willingness to invest in their own health.
- The BIG question I get asked all the time is: "How Would a Sleep Coach help me learn to sleep properly again?"
- And here's the answer: Because if your brain has "unlearned" the critical process of sleep, it's not a straightforward process to relearn it. A complex combination of factors - all unique to you - will be influencing your sleep quality. You may not know what they are, or what to do about them. A trained Sleep Specialist helps you to work out how and why you got off track, what's keeping you there and - most importantly - how to get you firmly and permanently sleeping properly again!
