Sunday, 17 June 2012

Insomnia - Diet and Exercises

There are various factors that affect the sleep. The more active one is, the healthier a person is, the better they sleep. Various dietary recommendations and the exercises that can help induce sleep are:
•    A cup of warm milk before going to bed helps bring on a peaceful sleep. You can drink plain milk if you prefer, but the following suggestions will make it more delicious as well as more effective.
•    Add a pinch (up to 1/8 teaspoon) of nutmeg.
•    Add some crushed almonds (blanched is better), a pinch of nutmeg, and a pinch of cardamom. You can prepare the almonds in a nut grinder or coffee grinder.
•    Cherries are good for mental fatigue and stress, both of which can contribute to insomnia. Eating 10 to 20 cherries daily may help you sleep.
•    Drink 1 cup of tomato juice with 2 teaspoons natural sugar and 2 pinches of nutmeg. Drink the juice between four and five in the afternoon; have dinner between six and seven. That evening you should get a sound sleep.
•    This is the most widely known cause of insomnia; if you are tossing and turning at night, start by tossing out the caffeine. An ingredient in coffee, tea, colas, chocolate, and some medications, caffeine is a stimulant
•    Heavy meals keep you awake as your digestive system puts in some overtime. Avoid spicy and fatty foods that cause heartburn, and foods that cause gas. Calcium is a natural relaxing agent along with several other vitamins such as the B vitamins and magnesium.
•    Cottage cheese, soy nuts, chicken, pumpkinseeds, and turkey are sleep inducing elements. So if these are added in your meals before bedtime, it will just make you sleep.
•    Finally, high-carbohydrate foods such as bread act upon another essential hormone, serotonin, which reduces anxiety and contributes to refreshing sleep.
•    A cup of chamomile tea at bedtime is truly beneficial for inducing sleep.
Exercise
Regular exercise is a sleep promoter. But if you work out too close to bedtime, the increase in your heart rate and metabolism will make your body too excitable to sleep. So exercise in the late afternoon is ideal, because you then have time in the evening to settle down. In this way, exercise has the same sleep-enhancing effect as a warm bath. Lie down in bed with the light off and allow yourself to fall asleep while doing the following breathing exercises.
•    Keeping an awareness of your breath, get into your most comfortable sleeping position.
•    Focus on deep regular breathing for a few seconds.
•    Continue to breathe slowly and deeply. Try to imagine what your body feels like when it is in a deep relaxing sleep and allow yourself to drift into that sleepy state.
If you wake in the night, do not get agitated, simply repeat the exercise.


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