Sleep for Health

Good health is a triad balanced across Mind(mental /emotional), Body(structural, neuromuscular),Biochemical(energy production).

One of the most important building blocks of vitality resides in the power of sleep. We now know sleep performs many vital functions to sustain life and vitality through balancing the triad of health. At night our biology is organized to repair tissues that have been assaulted-by pollution and environmental stress.

• Sleep rejuvenates our body for renewed energy, through the process of self detoxification
• Sleep recharges your immune system and repairs damages done to your body
• Sleep helps process , sort and store everything you learnt, felt, or experienced during the day.
• Sleep promotes growth, enhances memory,sharpens the mind, stabilizes the emotions and slows the aging process

refer to Stress Management and Sleep

The primary step toward rejuvenation is making sure body’s self healing mechanism is functioning at night when we sleep. By understanding the relationships between sleep, nutrition, brain function , stress and our emotional state of mind, we can help minimize the impact of stress and also tap into the body’s energy system for renewed vitality.

The second step toward rejuvenation is to balance the energy producing factories in our body. The body’s energy factory resides deep in tour cells, every one of them breathing in oxygen, water and nutrients, and breathing out wastes such as cancer causing free radicals. Sleep deprivation and wrong diet increases blood acidity, prevents red blood cells from carrying oxygen, and also makes the cell membrane harder for oxygen to pass.

Our health operates at this cellular level and it’s our job to make sure we help our trillions of cells by making the right choices about food, water, exercise and sleep. To boost their performance we need to get enough sleep, support the adrenal system, provide supplements that stabilizes blood pH, enhances cellular oxygenation and assist in efficient brain function.

The third step toward rejuvenation is to have an organized and balanced nervous system. The nervous system consist of the brain, spinal vertebra , spinal nerves which carry information from body to the brain and vise versa, and series of build in reflexes to response to respond or react to the internal(body) and external environment. This response depends on how the brain integrates incoming information. We must first address the neurological pathways forged by choices we have made in our lives coping strategies, habits and reflexes that have been overactive or under active because of early developmental interruptions or trauma.

The brain has two hemispheres, processing information from opposite side of the body. As well as integrated thought, there is reason to believe deep sleep handles left brain processing and while dream sleep is handled by the right brain. Many emotional danger signals are processed by the right part of the brain as well as intuitive and creative thinking. The left side of the brain handles positive emotions like happiness, optimism and euphoria as well as the logical thinking.

The more we are able to access both, the better we function, helping us harness all levels of intelligence for healthy choices.