To defeat insomnia means to love yourself. However, this is a conquest that takes place gradually, which often requires us to dialogue with the shadows that live in the deep unconscious or forces us to deal with excess energy, not spending during the day.
Let's go into the different types of insomnia and brush up on some golden rules to sleep well.
The different types of insomnia
Insomnia prevents us from enjoying those precious visits which are the "trips" in the deepest places of the soul. Sleep is the first cure for beauty, a restorative and revealing factor; restoring our relationship with Morpheus, we can better express the vital energy to spend during the day. The need for sleep varies from person to person, although most adults rest for about 6 or 7 hours on average.
Basically, it is always good to calculate the hours of sleep based on listening to one's body, following its rhythms and needs. You may have difficulty sleeping ( evening insomnia ); in other cases there are repeated awakenings in the middle of the night ( insomnia at night ); we talk instead about morning insomnia when the awakening is early.
Prolonged insomnia leads to disturbances that extend throughout the day: excessive fatigue, attention, drowsiness, depression, anxiety, irritability, dyspepsia (from the Greek δυσπεψία, composed of "δυς-" ( dys ) = "difficult" and "πέψις" ( pepsis ) = "digestion").
Plantar reflexology also tests against insomnia
Golden rules for good sleep
A first tip to sleep well and rebalance the body is to perform a self-massage performed in the evening, before going to bed: it relaxes and helps to relax the nerves.
Contact with oneself works like an entrance ticket to the world of dreams: carefully massage the body with a sweet almond oil to add 7 drops of your favorite essential oil (choose between benzoin, neroli, ylang ylang) in proportion of 5 teaspoons per 25 ml of vegetable oil. If you have someone you love next to you, share the warmth of the contact .
Secondly, give yourself to the movement : sedentary people experience more problems related to insomnia. Physical activity increases the metabolic function and regulates the balance of the nervous system.
Once the preferred physical discipline has been chosen, the ideal would be to go to sleep and always wake up at the same time . As for the diet, it is essential to vary between nutritious and light foods that improve performance during training and promote sleep.
Decrease the intake of alcoholic beverages, which compromises the progress of the sleep-wake cycle. It is also important to take care of the sleeping environment. It is not enough to clean the space where you sleep, maintain hygiene, but it is important to make it your own, put some significant objects, worry about good ventilation, avoid excessive light and noise.
Special attention, finally, for the choice of the mattress, which should be not too soft and not too high, better if made of latex, so as to favor the curves of the spine.
