Dita Wegman reveals insight on how to interpret dreams
LAC-SIMON, Ottawa. (Oct. 30, 2017) – Humans spend almost one third of their life asleep, and yet, hardly any thought is given to this vital task. Dita Wegman gives testament based on natural law, that the true value and beneficial nature of sleep has been forgotten.
Wegman asserts that sleep provides more than just physical and mental nourishment, but also provides spiritual and soul revitalization. Now, she explores the interplay between sleep, dreams and the soul in “Treasures of Sleep: Connect with the Universe and Nourish Your Soul.” It covers what the soul gathers from the cosmos and why we must sleep.
“Treasures of Sleep” emphasizes the difference between resting and sleeping. Wegman explores why we need sleep and promotes the fact that every human being’s core of is existence is their individual Spirit, which many refer to as their Soul. She states we have to separate the Spirit from the mind and that the Soul and Spirit has to be nourished and recharged while we sleep, since the brain assigned for daytime activity is at rest. Additionally, she showcases sleep as the source of nourishment that is essential for every living form on earth under Creation-law to maintain health, happiness and overall well-being.
The book also enlightens readers about dream interpretations, the work of the great astronomer and physician Nostradamus, and how the stars and planets communicate in a silent language of nature symbols seen during sleep and prophetic messaging. She uses Nostradamus’ fundamental work of intuitively perceived images, which are referred to as “dreams,” to contrast the mind-produced images that interrupt sleep and disturb a good night’s sleep. The book guides readers on how to achieve the desired REM sleep, which is the state of the “deep sleep,” and states we must enter it every night to be recharged and have the energy for a new day.
“Sleep is not only for when we are tired,” Wegman said. “It is a natural component that keeps every form of life on the planet in balance. Treasures of Sleep shows you the how to get the most out of your time sleeping and rejuvenate your entire being.”
One of the Afflicted 25 Million? How to Keep Your Obstructive Sleep Apnea from Ruining Your Life
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a devastating health condition that affects nearly 25 million adults in the United States. When left untreated, it will increase one’s risk of many secondary complications including obesity, depression, severe mood swings, high blood pressure, and heart disease. If you have recently been diagnosed with OSA or believe that you might have this condition, then you need to start making some lifestyle changes to improve your quality of sleep.
Schedule a Sleep Study
Just because an individual snores or has an unusual breathing pattern while they are sleeping doesn’t necessarily mean that they have sleep apnea. In order to make an accurate diagnosis, a sleep study must be carried out. During one of these studies, you will sleep in a quiet room while your vital signs are tracked. Doctors will then use that information to determine exactly what is taking place while you are sleeping and how it can be treated.
Stay at a Healthy Weight
Obesity is the single biggest risk factor for sleep apnea, and anyone who has been diagnosed with this condition should immediately make changes to their dietary habits. Filling your plate with lean protein sources and fresh produce will make it easier to safely and consistently lose weight. Those who are having a tough time losing weight should speak with a registered dietitian. These specialists can help you come up with a personalized diet plan that meets all of your nutritional needs.
Alter Your Sleep Mechanics
Obstructive sleep apnea takes place when the airways are blocked by the nearby soft tissue. For some people, that is caused by the position they are sleeping in. Many of those who have this condition will benefit from sleeping on adjustable beds, like those from Dreamland, that straighten their breathing passages. Some of these beds even have indentations that allow you to sleep on your side with your head slightly raised.
Avoid Stimulants and Depressants
Any foods or beverages that impact your heart rate or breathing pattern could exacerbate your sleep apnea is well. Most specialists agree that those who have sleep apnea must avoid alcohol and tobacco products entirely. You will also need to limit how much caffeine you consume later on in the day. If you have been prescribed any medications that could potentially affect your sleep patterns, then you should speak with your doctor about alternative prescriptions.
This particular type of sleep apnea can’t always be reversed with lifestyle changes. There may come a point when you need to consider professional treatments or services such as a CPAP machine or nasal surgery. Overcoming sleep apnea isn’t always easy, but getting better sleep will improve almost every other facet of your life.
ATHLETES NEED MORE SLEEP, COMFORT PRODUCTS CAN HELP
Charlotte, NC, July, 2017 – Athletes are always on the go, on and off the field, and less sleep can mean more injuries. Players who got less than six hours of sleep per night had an increased rate of injury during games, according to a University of California study; making choosing comfort products conducive to sleep crucial.
“When we design products, we keep athletes in mind,” said Contour Products President Scott Davis. “Our products aim to aid comfort by correctly aligning the body during sleep. This can not only prolong sleep, but help athletes recover when injuries do happen.”
Athletes often place sleep on the backburner. In highly trained team sport athletes, 50 percent of athletes were considered poor sleepers and 28 percent had daytime sleepiness in a recent study published in the European Journal of Sport Science. The study concluded that athletes needed to learn more about their sleep schedules, sleep longer, and have better quality sleep.
Injury is a common occurrence in sports. In collegiate football alone, 8 out of every 1000 players are injured, according to a National Collegiate Athletic Association report. The way players behave during recovery from these injuries is critical for their chances of playing again.
For longer sleep and shorter recovery time, players should consider how they sleep and type of injury. Comfort products are designed to target specific areas of the body:
Lower Back, Hips, Pelvis: lumbar cushion, leg support pillow, seat cushion
Legs, Knees, Ankles, Feet: leg wedge, knee elevation cushion
“We want athletes to be as healthy and safe as possible, because both everyday exercise, and injury recovery time can have a huge impact on their success,” said Davis. “Our variety of comfort products can help.”
The Contour Cool Leg Pillow was recently featured in 12 NFL players’ training camp bags.
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5 Ways Your Sleep Health Is Affecting Your Fitness Goals
It’s very easy to prioritize your morning workout routine over adequate sleep. I had a friend who despite going to bed late would always wake up very early every day just to get to the gym on time. Unfortunately, sleep is one of the things that are underestimated by most people. What we don’t realize is that sleep has a great impact on our fitness goals. If you are having difficulties achieving your fitness goals, you might want to take a look at your sleep health. Below are the reasons why.
How Proper Sleep Health Enhances Your Fitness Goals
Increased Energy Levels
The level of energy you have during your workout exercise is greatly affected by the quality of sleep you get. Maintaining a constant workout routine helps your body to get used to some routine. You’ll realize that if you work out every day at the right time, you’ll find it easier to fall asleep in the evening. A good night of sleep will help with your muscles to recover and restore all your energy making it readily available for your next day workout.
Inadequate sleep, on the other hand, will make you feel tired all the time and sluggish. As a result, you’ll tend to grab energy foods and beverages to replace the energy you didn't restore during sleep. This results in consumption of extra calories which will again take more time to burn out.
Increased Metabolism
Your body is able to recuperate from your daily exercise while asleep hence leading to restoration of metabolism. In addition, according to research, your body releases hormones that help in metabolism while you sleep. These include cortisol and growth hormone (GH).
Appetite Control
Ghrelin (a hormone that affects appetite) is always high in people who have poor sleeping habits. This hormone increases your craving for food and you will always feel hungry. A healthy sleep reduces the production of Ghrelin and increases the production of Leptin which consequently results in a better weight loss experience. This is according to a research by PLoS Med.
A Boost in Your Health
There is a close relationship between sleep and the immune system. When you sleep, disease-fighting substances, such as melatonin, are released into our bodies. According to Dr. Mercola, our bodies are able to fight diseases such as cancer due to these proteins, hormones, and chemicals that are released during sleep.
If you are sleep deprived, these substances will not be available to fight infections, viruses, and bacteria. As a result, you will get more prone to diseases or take a longer time to heal. This does not mean you dedicate extra hours of sleep, but rather ensuring you get at least seven hours of sleep each day.
Lack of Focus
According to the National Sleep Research Project, if you stay awake for 17 hours, you will start behaving like someone who has taken alcohol. Therefore the lack of sleep can hinder your focus, vigilance, and attention making it more difficult to practice your fitness regimen.
In Conclusion
If you want to be successful in your fitness goals, learn to prioritize your sleep health. How can you do that? By creating a sleeping routine, ‘turning off’ your brain at least two hours before you get to bed, and most importantly make your bedroom your small sanctuary.
Remember that sometimes it might take as long as 30 days for the routine to work. Don’t lose hope. If you can’t use all the tactics, start by employing some and before you realize it you will be enjoying your sleep. For you to meet your fitness goals, you need to combine eating healthy, doing your exercises regularly, and getting quality sleep for your body’s rejuvenation.
Bio: Sarah is the editor of sleepydeep.com. Feeling the repercussions of being an irregular sleeper for far too long, she decided to do something about it. She learned why sleep is so important and how to maximize it, and is now helping others who are struggling to find their right sleep routine.
The Science behind a Perfect Night’s Sleep [Infographic]
It’s common knowledge today that your lifestyle, what you eat and what you drink play a big part in your sleep pattern and quality of sleep, and while people know this and understand the concept of holistic well-being to some degree, most people don’t know exactly what factors influence their sleep and to what extent.
Normally it’s only when we aren’t sleeping well that we realise just how important a good night’s sleep is. Training regularly and eating well are extremely important to well-being but even a few nights of poor sleep can lead to daytime tiredness, lack of focus and concentration.
But getting a consistent amount of sleep every night is a challenge at the best of times, thankfully scientists have been concerned with sleep research for many years and the tips offered in the below infographic are based on years of research aimed at improving sleep quality.
But before we consider how to get a good night’s sleep, it’s important to understand what a good night's sleep is. As described by Dr. Mehmet Oz, MD these are the most important factors when deciding if we are sleeping well or not:
Sleep latency – the time it takes to fall asleep
Sleep stages 1 & 2 – getting enough stage 2 sleep, sleep that rests the parts of your brain that you use during the day
Sleep stages 3 & 4 – these decline with age but are the restorative stages.
While it can be difficult to monitor these different stages effectively, overall if you’re waking up feeling tired and are tired throughout most of the day then you probably aren’t sleeping through all of the above stages, and it’s likely that your sleep quality can be improved.
For more information about the science behind a perfect night’s sleep check out the following infographic created by De Vere:
Better sleep feels like winning the lottery
Improving your sleep makes you feel as good as a lottery winner – leading to high levels of health and wellbeing over time - say University of Warwick psychologists
Quality of sleep more important than quantity for optimal health and happiness
Study analysed link between sleep and mental & physical wellbeing in households across the UK
Working on better sleep could be an effective, cheap and simple public health strategy
Improving your sleep quality is as beneficial to health and happiness as winning the lottery, according to research by the University of Warwick.
Dr Nicole Tang in the Department of Psychology has discovered that working on getting a better night’s sleep can lead to optimal physical and mental wellbeing over time – and that quality of sleep is more important than how many hours you get.
Analysing the sleep patterns of more than 30,500 people in UK households across four years, Dr Tang finds that improving your sleep quality leads to levels of mental and physical health comparable to those of somebody who’s won a jackpot of around £200,000.
The study shows that positive changes in sleep over time – improved quality and quantity, and using less sleep medication - are linked with improved scores on the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), which is used by mental health professionals to monitor psychological wellbeing in patients.
People surveyed who reported positive improved sleep scored a 2-point change in the GHQ – a result comparable to those recorded from patients completing an eight-week programme of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy designed to improve psychological wellbeing.
Furthermore, the same people showed improved scores on the 12-Item Short Form Survey, which tests levels of physical and emotional health, as well as people’s ability to perform everyday activities.
Conversely, it was found that a lack of sleep, bad quality sleep, and using more sleep medication can lead to worsened medical and emotional states.
Dr Tang’s research proves that improving the quality and quantity of sleep amongst the population – as well as discouraging the use of sleep medication - is an effective, simple and cheap method of raising the health and wellbeing of society as a whole.
Consequently, she argues that working on getting good quality sleep, and the reduction of sleep medication, should be promoted as a public health value – something that everyone can do easily to stay physically and mentally healthy.
Dr Tang comments:
“We are far from demonstrating a causal relationship, but the current findings suggest that a positive change in sleep is linked to better physical and mental wellbeing further down the line.
“It is refreshing to see the healing potential of sleep outside of clinical trial settings, as this goes to show that the benefits of better sleep are accessible to everyone and not reserved for those with extremely bad sleep requiring intensive treatments.
“An important next step is to look at the differences between those who demonstrate a positive and negative change in sleep over time, and identify what lifestyle factors and day-to-day activities are conducive to promoting sleep. Further research in this area can inform the design of public health initiatives.”
We've all had trouble sleeping and know how crazy that can make us feel...but a recent poll shows that some of the cures to that insomnia are what are REALLY crazy.
Rubbing dog's earwax on your teeth has been voted the strangest insomnia cure ever, heading a strong field of bygone and present cures ranked in an international poll.
The Strangest Insomnia Cures (as voted on by respondents to a Calm.com poll)
Rank Insomnia Cure
1. Rubbing dog's earwax on your teeth
2. Eating sea slug entrails before bed
3. Drinking a potion containing the bile of a castrated boar
4. Rubbing dormouse/field mouse fat on the so les of your feet
5. Lathering your hair in yellow soap
6.= Eating fried lettuce before bed
6.= Drinking a brew of lettuce opium
8. Eating a raw onion before bed
9. Pointing your bed northwards
10. Watching a video of a crossword puzzle tournament
11.= Curling and uncurling your toes
11.= Drinking cinnamon and banana and tea
The idea that smearing your teeth with the earwax of a dog would cure insomnia is credited to Gerolamo Cardano, a 15th century doctor and mathematician in Renaissance Italy whose other credits included being a founder of probability theory.
The Japanese folk remedy of eating sea slug entrails before bed ra nked a close second in the survey of 4,279 Americans and Britons conducted by pollsters on behalf of the meditation app, Calm.com
"Insomnia may be a modern epidemic but it's far from a new problem," says Alex Tew, co-founder of Calm. "Everyone from the ancient Egyptians to our medieval ancestors had their own cures."
Indeed, Calm itself recently launched its own new natural sleep aid, in the form of bedtime stories for grown-ups called Sleep Stories.
The 23 sleep-inducing tales have been listened to five million times in their first three months.
One of Calm's Sleep Stories offers Ben Stein of Ferris Bueller's Day Off fame reading a long extract from The Wealth of Nations, the classic 18th economics text by Adam Smith, the Scotsman known as the father of economics.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
"This cure might strike some folks as strange," says Alex Tew of Calm. "But it's already been listened to h alf a million times and is our most popular non-fiction story. It does genuinely seem to help people wind down and fall asleep."
CALM is an app from the leader in the meditation space -- with over eight million downloads to date and an average of 20,000 new users daily.
National Survey reveals 91 per cent of Canadians believe health is the key to happiness
CHFA presents four simple ways to stay happy and healthy this winter
In response to new national survey results and with cold and flu season fast approaching, the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) have put together simple and effective tips to help Canadians stay happy and healthy during the winter months.
The survey of more than 1,500 Canadians conducted by CHFA revealed that the vast majority (91 per cent) of Canadians believe that their overall health impacts their level of happiness. The same survey also shows that more than half of our population (54 per cent) get sick most often in the winter.
When asked what factors are negatively impacting their health, Canadians from coast to coast reported that lack of sleep tops the list at 73 per cent. Sleep was followed closely by stress and lack of mindfulness (57 per cent), lack of exercise (52 per cent) and poor nutrition (46 per cent).
Additional interesting findings from the survey include:
Canadians’ favourite foods to ward off cold and fluand stay happy and healthy include chicken soup/broth (49 per cent), oranges (49 per cent) and tea (48 per cent).
Canadians’ top picks for natural health products to keep them happy and healthy during cold and flu seasoninclude vitamins C (46 per cent) and D (37 per cent).
Things Canadians do to stay happy and healthy:Over three-quarters say they improve their sleep (76 per cent), improve eating habits (43 per cent) and engage in exercise (40 per cent).
As Canadians prepare to celebrate the fifth annual National Health Products (NHP) Week, which runs from November 7 to 13, 2016, the focus is on practical and innovative ways to stay healthy through the holidays and into the New Year.
“Our goal this NHP Week is to arm Canadians with the tools they need to maintain health and happiness during cold and flu season,” said Michelle W. Book, CHFA’s in-house holistic nutritionist. “We identified four pillars of immunity, each including simple steps Canadians can take to help boost their immune system naturally this season and beyond.”
CHFA’s four pillars of immunity include:
Nutrition: Lack of proper nutrition has been linked to decreased immunity and increased risk of illness. Nuts, fermented foods and garlic are all shown to help boost the immune system.
Exercise: Engaging in 30-60 minutes every day can improve your body’s immune response. To improve exercise and immune health consider including krill oil, protein and vitamin D as part of your daily routine.
Sleep: Our bodies respond to lack of sleep in a similar way as it does to acute stress. Try adding magnesium, L-theanine and melatonin for better sleep.
Mindfulness: Mindfulness can reduce markers for inflammation and stress hormones. Probiotics and omega-3s can be beneficial in managing stress.
“While we always encourage Canadians to speak to their health care practitioners when they are under the weather, we also want to encourage everyone to consider adding natural health products to improve overall wellbeing and boost immunity,” says CHFA President Helen Long. “When you visit a local CHFA Member health food store, you can find all kinds of safe, effective and high-quality supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbal products and traditional medicines. Canadians should feel confident that Health Canada-approved natural health products can play an important role in maintaining and optimizing our health and happiness.”
Canadians should also be aware that Health Canada is proposing changes that impact natural health products in two fundamental ways:
Some products will no longer require Health Canada review and will provide less information.
Other products will be required to submit drug-level scientific evidence to support their claims.
About CHFA
The Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) is Canada's largest national trade association dedicated to the natural health and organic products industry. The association represents manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors and importers of natural health and organic products. With a membership of more than 1,000 businesses across the country, CHFA represents an industry that contributes more than $6 billion to the Canadian economy. Michelle W. Book is CHFA’s in-house holistic nutritionist, trained in natural and complementary therapies.
About the survey:
A survey of 1591 Canadians was completed online between September 12th to 15th 2016 using Leger’s online panel, LegerWeb. A probability sample of the same size would yield a margin of error of +/-2.5per cent, 19 times out of 20.
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Sleep is so important! I never realized just how important it was until I started taking my fitness and health more seriously in University as an athlete and then when I started working full time as a personal trainer (5 am wakeup). Then I realized just how awesome naps are during the day. Thank you so much @casper for letting me try your very comfortable mattress and catch up on some of those precious ZZZ’s in your #snoozeroom in Toronto yesterday. And thank you for helping me learn more about just how to get the sleep I need. Look out for this traveling sleep room around Toronto for the next few weeks.
The following are some great tips from the folks at Casper on how to sleep like a champion - Sleep tips for athletes.
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