The things that
has
harmed the human
civilization the most is
sleep. The discovery of artificial
light has only added to
the woes by disturbing the
biological clock of human being. (In cities, even the rooster has forgotten
to crow at the crack of dawn). Gadgets and
applications like computer, mobile and internet has made sleep an
interference rather than a necessity.
To maintain
good health our body requires performing the following functions: cleaning, maintaining and
repairing. Sleep
plays a very vital role
in the function of repairing.
A baby in the
womb virtually sleeps throughout the
10 lunar months
(280 days) of gestation. The baby’s whole body is being created
during this time of deep sleep.
A new born sleeps
for long
hours because its body is still
growing...18 hours...14 hours and
in the end as it grows it settles to
around
eight hours. The
sleep hours of an
old man keeps reducing
to five, four and even
three hours because the growth
of
the body has stopped.
Latest researches indicate that
there cannot be one fixed time for everyone to wake up. Each
person has his own bio-rhythm
to follow. Within
twenty-four hours,
for
about three hours,
the body temperature of each
person goes down. And
those three hours are the hours of deepest sleep. If a person is woken up during this period which whole energy gets disturbed
and
he will have a non-productive day.
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Normally,
it is all right
for everybody to wake up with the rising
sun. The rising sun raises the body temperature. However,
one person’s body may get warmer sooner than the other...so one
will wake-up at 6:00
am while the other will wake-up an hour
later.
So, each person should find
out the right wake-up time
for them.
For
right sleep
a)
Understand your
biological rhythm. (check links below)
b) Eat light (follow the adage: breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince
and dinner like a pauper)
c)
Do not sleep immediately after eating.
d)
Sleep like a
baby – deep abdominal breathing that allows you maximum oxygen.
e)
Make peace with
your loved ones…do not carry anger or resentment to bed.
During
sleep our body’s metabolism slows
down and our cells are getting
recharged, muscles and
tissues are repaired and you wake up feeling rejuvenated
and bounding with energy – Alive!
Please take the sleep quiz, the rhythm test and top up with some
informative information on sleep – follow the link below
Take a sleep quiz: http://www.medicinenet.com/sleep_quiz/quiz.htm
Daily Rhythm Test: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/crt/
Why Sleep Matters: http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters
Sleep,
Sleep Disorders and Biological Rhythm: http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih3/sleep/guide/info-sleep.htm
Sleep Wisdom indeed !
ReplyDeleteBibek Kumar Anand
Convener "SAMPADA"