Do You Suffer From Sleep Deprivation?
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Insomnia is not just the inability to fall asleep; it can also be expressed in difficulties staying asleep. Even when you are sleeping for enough hours each night, you may not be getting appropriate restful sleep that is vital for your body and brain. A healthy night of sleep typically consists of several 90 minute cycles where the different lobes of the brain pass through stages of low and high activity. When these cycles are interrupted it is not possible to function at optimal levels.
Everyone can suffer from sleep deprivation here and there in life. This is normal and is not a big concern to long-term health unless it persists for an extended period of time. If you have had troubles falling asleep, staying asleep, or you do not feel well rested for a period of time that is longer than a month, you should consider ways to improve your sleep.
Evidence from research shows that insomnia can affect many mental, emotional and physical functions. Alongside the more obvious effects on attention, memory and physical ability, research has shown that lack of restful sleep increases risk of illness, infection, heart disease, and high blood pressure. And don’t be fooled- it is not only children who get cranky when they don’t get the sleep that they need. Emotional problems from sleep issues are going to take their toll on your personal and social life as well.
There are several ways to treat insomnia. Medications, including over-the-counter drugs such as melatonin, all have side effects. These should only be used on a temporary basis (especially prescription drugs) and these should never be mixed with alcohol. Other ways to help sleep patterns include exercise, yoga, medication, and avoiding alcohol and caffeine.
There is another powerful option as well. Neurofeedback showed significant decreases in insomnia in ALL participants! Yes, 100% of the patients reported lower levels of insomnia after sessions, as well as in a one-month follow-up. 100% of them showed significant improvements in sleep.
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.
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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, but in the end it was determined 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.
Studies show that people in their middle years – especially their 40s, suffer the most severe sleep deprivation, whereas many even in their 80s report sleeping well?
At Brain Awakening, we’ve known for a long time that it isn’t age that causes people to sleep poorly. It would appear that 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 most common approach to treating sleep maladies in our hectic life styles is pharmaceuticals, 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, 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 see 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 neurofeedback 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. 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 – you owe it to yourself to live your best life.
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