Sleep

What you do in your sleep…

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sleepThe Angels – Your sleep is a rich and productive time. It is a time when the majority of your spirit leaves your physical body and visits the heavens. You can engage in a multitude of activities while your awareness is in these other dimensions.

Some of you have “planning meetings” with your angels. You examine your upcoming choices, creations, and the many possible pathways for your upcoming growth.

Many of you receive our love, nurturing, and encouragement. Earth is a tough school and often you just need love and support so you can move forward with renewed energy in your lessons here upon the earth. Continue reading →

What effect does sleep have on productivity?

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If you’re wondering about the actual impact of a good night’s sleep on productivity, or the amount of sleep needed for general health we’re gathered some research and published it below.

How much sleep do you really need per night?

sleepThe typical answer is 8 hours per night. However, according to an article in Psychology Today, there are no studies that prove 8 hours/night sleep is effective. In fact, it’s been discovered that most people without sleep disorders sleep an average of 6 to 7 hours per night.

Sleep disorders can consist of any of the following:

♦ Snoring

♦ Insomnia

♦ Sleep apnea

♦ Restless leg syndrome

♦ Chronic fatigue disorder

♦ Narcolepsy Continue reading →

Essential Tips for Raising Happy, Healthy Kids

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activityA parent’s primary responsibility is to support the physical and emotional development of their children. As the child grows and learns to communicate, think and socialize, parents both expand their supporting net while giving up a bit more control each day so the child can eventually grow into an independent adult individual.

The relationship you share with your child is one of the most important influences on his/her learning and development. Providing for your child’s physical needs (food, shelter, and clothing) is a fairly straightforward matter. Trying to provide for your child’s emotional needs can be more challenging.

So, how do you raise a happy and healthy child?  Experts, physicians, psychologists have different lists of things that are right and/or wrong when raising happy children. Those lists are long, but our research shows there are few things in common across the literature.

This article revisits the three most essential—and in our experience most useful—tips for raising happy and healthy kids. Continue reading →

New Study Shows What Disrupted Sleep Does To Your Mental Health

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sleepAlanna Ketler – We all know just how important it is to have a good nights rest, unfortunately for many of us, this is a fleeting dream. New research has emerged showing just how impactful a disrupted body clock and natural circadian rhythm can be for our mental health.

Researchers from the U.K. came to this conclusion after studying the circadian rhythm, which is our natural waking and sleeping patterns throughout the 24-hour sleep cycle.

Lead author of the study, Laura Lyall, a research associate in mental health and well-being at Glasgow University said in a statement, “In the largest such study ever conducted, we found a robust association between disruption of circadian rhythms and mood disorders.

“Previous studies have identified associations between disrupted circadian rhythms and poor mental health, but these were only small samples.”

The Study

Scientists from the University of Glasgow studied data collected on over 90,000 adults between the ages of 37 and 73 years old in the U.K., between 2006 and 2010. Each participant in the study wore an activity tracker on their wrist for 7 days between 2013 and 2015. Continue reading →

The Science Behind Power Naps & Why They’re So Good For You

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sleepArjun Walia – We recently came across a great article about sleeping at Healthy Holistic Living (HHL), and wanted to archive it on our website alongside a few that we’ve already posted on this subject. Sleep is still somewhat of an enigma in the scientific world – from the correct way to sleep to why we need it, the study of sleep still has a long way to go before we fully understand its intricacies.

As HHL points out, approximately 85% of all mammalian species sleep more than once a day, and scientists are not completely clear if humans are naturally monophasic as opposed to polyphasic. Has modern society conditioned us to be so, just as it has influenced so many other aspects of our health?

If we examine the topic from a historical perspective, the work of historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech is a good start. In 2001 he published a paper that included over 15 years of research. It cited an overwhelming amount of historical evidence which reveals that humans used to in fact sleep in two separate blocks of time. You can read more about that (and access the paper) here.

Regardless of our historical sleep habits, however, it’s quite clear that many human beings suffer from a lack of sleep for various reasons, one of which very well may be that we don’t take time out during the day to have a nap. Continue reading →