Do you Suffer from Sleep Deprivation?

If you think Sleep Deprivation is just one of those discomforts you have to put up with as a side effect of aging, you’ll be surprised to hear that new research conducted by the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania turns this conventional wisdom on its head.

The study, involving over 150,000 people and published in the journal  Sleep , was designed to show that the quality of sleep  declines in old age , explained Dr Michael Grander. But the shock results reveal that aging  isn’t  the primary cause of poor sleep. So much so that one British sleep researcher commented it was a “myth” that aging is the root of sleep deprivation.

The study has researchers convinced that complaints about poor sleep  lessen  as people move beyond the middle years, with the lowest number of complaints among the over-70s – likely because they have adjusted to a more relaxed lifestyle by this time in life.

So why do people in their middle years – especially their 40s, when they ought to be performing at their peak in all areas of life – suffer the most severe sleep deprivation, whereas many even in their 80s report sleeping well?

At Brain Awakening Calgary, we’ve known for a long time that it isn’t age that causes people to sleep poorly.

Sleep deprivation is at its peak in the 40s because by then people’s brain patterns are often in a state of severe disarray as a result of the buildup of trauma and stress as a result of the pressures of our complex modern world. The overtaxed brain becomes “stuck” in a mode designed for coping with challenging situations, unable to return to its normal state.

The common approach to treating sleep maladies is chemical, with $150 billion to address sleep-related issues. Use of sedatives has soared as stressed-out people seek to feel more relaxed and get a better night sleep. The problem is that the underlying sleep architecture remains abnormal because of the continuing imbalance in the individual’s brainwaves. Chemicals such as sleep aids simply mask what’s really going on inside us.

At Brain Awakening Calgary, we’ve demonstrated that the  brain  drives body chemistry. When brainwave patterns are balanced left-to-right and front-to-back, with low and high frequencies in optimal proportion to one another throughout the brain, clients find themselves sleeping well often for the first time in years.

When we first begin working with a client we can see in the evaluation where in the brain and which brainwaves are over active or under active.   We can where the brain is out of balance which gives us a good indication as to why the individual’s sleep tends to suffer. By addressing these imbalances with our advanced non-invasive technology, we’ve shown that not sleeping well isn’t merely a symptom of physical and emotional health problems, but the  source  of many of these problems.

At any age, sleep can be improved by balancing and harmonizing the brain using Neurofeedback Calgary. But especially if you are in your career and family years, you want to function at your best. Changing your sleep patterns with Neurofeedback can be life-changing – like being released from shackles.