Insomnia Cure

Insomnia therapy is a much better and healthier route to take than taking prescription medications.

Unless the insomnia is caused by a physiological illness, insomnia can frequently be overcome by:

1. Life style changes.
2. Developing more healthy patterns of thinking.
3. Retraining the brain to go to sleep at night, and to stay a sleep.

Let’s look at number 3.
If you remember Pavlov’s dog, the dog that was trained that when the bell rang, he would get a treat. Before long, every time the bell rang, Pavlov’s dog salivated. Another interesting study, and there have been many, were mice that were fed something sweet as they experienced something fearful.

Experiencing fear will and can reduce your immune response as can be easily proven by simple blood tests. After a short period of time, the mice no longer needed the fearful item to reduce their immune system, it was enough to feed them the sweets. The sweets were enough of a link to the fearful stimuli and the result was a diminished immune system.

What does that have to do with sleep?

Well, a lot.

We function in the very same way. Once we get used to waking up at night, it can so easily become a pattern. And the more we worry about, or are upset about waking up, the easier it is for the pattern to take a strong hold.

My mother wakes up at 2AM every night. Exactly at 2. (She’s got some conditioning going there…) She gets up, gets some tea and falls promptly back asleep. Now, she could have had the pattern of having the tea and staying awake for a couple of hours, but her pattern is that after the tea she is out like a light. (She likes her tea at night, so don’t want to change her pattern)

One way to break this pattern can be to use hypnosis, or some of the new very effective energy therapies such as TAT or EFT. Another fast and most effective way is to use sounds to gently guide your brain into the pattern of sleep.

So. When we are awake, or worrying or feeling restless the brain has a frequency of somewhere between 14 Hz and up to 20Hz and beyond, depending on how uptight we are. Sleep on the other hand causes the brain to vibrate at somewhere in the range of 1-6 Hz.

Using sound technology to gently and very effectively guide your brain into the 1-6 Hz range and to STAY there is not only a superiorly effective way to go to sleep and stay at sleep, but it also retrains the brain that when we are in bed and it is night we are supposed to sleep.

After using the sound tracks for some time, instead of the anxiety many insomniacs feel about going to bed at night, they now feel peaceful and their brain is preparing to go to sleep.

There are a number of different types of medication used to

1. Falling asleep, and
2. Staying asleep.

Some medications are by prescription only, some are over the counter, then there are safe and effective options from the health food store using herbs, homeopathics or amino acids to produce a quality restorative sleep without the side effects so often seen from prescription medications.

A third option which is not really a medication, and carry no side effects is the use of the relatively new field of “Binaural Beats” which are sounds that gently, naturally and powerfully leads your brain into the right brain wave activity to fall asleep naturally.

Prescription Medication.
These medications should be taken just prior to going to bed.Driving or performing activities that require concentration should not be done after taking the medications. Care should be taken that there is enough time for the medication to clear the system to reduce grogginess or lethargy the following day.

Some commonly prescribed sleeping medications:
Lunesta. Helps to fall asleep quickly.
Ambien. Helps to fall asleep quickly but some tend to wake up towards the middle of the night.
Sonata.Also helps to fall asleep quickly. Does not stay active for long meaning this medication can be taken later in the night if sleep is not coming.
Benzodiazepines. These are older drugs such as Halcion and Restoril.These drugs are in the same family as Valium and can cause dependence.

FDA has issued warnings for prescription sleep medications. The following drugs can cause complex sleep related behaviors such as “sleep driving” and allergic reactions:

* Ambien/Ambien CR
* Butisol Sodium
* Carbrital
* Dalmane
* Doral
* Halcion
* Lunesta
* Placidyl
* Prosom
* Restoril
* Rozerem
* Seconal
* Sonata

Natural Insomnia Remedies
There are many alternative and or holistic treatments that are very effective in treating insomnia without side effects. Herbs used to treat insomnia includes Chamomile, Lavender,Valerian, and Lemon balm.

A Natural Insomnia Medication containing melatonin, the “sleep hormone”
and a blend of herbs proven to be effective to get you to sleep without any negative side effects is EzDoze. Click here to receive a free trial of EZDoze found by many to be more effective than Ambien.