(10-20-2010, 12:22 PM)Jay Wrote: I just wanted to share a few findings with the insomnia aid, but before I do that I wanted to make a couple of things clear by explaining some other things.
After reading the book 'You Can Lift Depression… Fast' it became pretty much clear to me that depression and sleeping are connected with each other. Without going into too much detail, people who are depressed exercise a lot of negative thinking in the form of anxiety, anger and guilt etc. in a passive form. In other words, they worry a lot about things without doing something about it. The emotional or unconscious mind has the tendency to store that thought or to keep it open (like an application you’ve started up) until it can be shutted down or fulfilled in the form of REM sleep (personal theatre). The more you worry, and the more thoughts of worry you generate, the more the ratio of regular slow wave/delta sleep and REM sleep is distorted and the more time you spend in REM sleep instead of slow wave/delta sleep.
Slow wave/delta sleep is meant to restore/heal your body, and to regain vitality and energy, REM sleep burns up a lot of energy in order to process these thoughts. To sum it up, you dream about the things that you worry about. And the more you have to worry about, the more tired you get from sleeping. I never understood why on some days I felt great with only a few hours of sleep and in others I felt crap after having slept enough hours. It just didn’t make sense to me why it was so unpredictable, but it does now.
The reason why I mentioned this is simply because perhaps this might provide some insight in other depressed people who may read this and I noticed that any depressive tendencies are gone after using the Insomnia Aid, also waking up foggy, slow, uncentered, along with feeling vulnerable and emotional is for the most part gone now, even if I hadn’t had that many hours of sleep. I can only say that this is one of the best things that have come on my path so far, since I am now able to control my sleep, and don’t have to worry about if and when I’m able to fall asleep, let alone how I may feel the next day. Even though I already thanked you, thanks again, you have no idea how much this bothered me
On a side note; If you’re kind of busy in the head the BWE does work (after 40-50 min. in my case), but I noticed that I will wake up a few hours later, this happened to me 2 times now. But I still feel pretty much clearheaded the next day, only just a bit tired. I guess this is what people normally experience
Great post Jay!
From a personal stand point only, I completely agree with you about depression being related to insomnia, as well as anxiety. For me, I'm not depressed anymore, but I deal with a low case of anxiety pretty much on a consistent basis.
What you said about negative thinking is spot on from my experience. My educational background is in psychology, and I remember being shocked to learn one day in class that the average person apparently has up to 1,000 negative thoughts per day (give or take)!! As an exercise, we were asked to keep a thought journal and write down any negative thoughts we'd had and replace them with a more positive one. Basically, this exercise helped me re-train my thought pattern from negative self talk to a more optimistic, upbeat kind of person. I'm still my own worse critic, but I've come a long way. But it takes lots of practice! Now, sometimes I worry that I've swung too much the other way and give people/circumstances too much benefit of the doubt, but hey, that's the balance I have to learn.
Anyway, my point is that the more positive thinking that I became, the less anxious I was, because I stopped worrying so much from all the fear I was creating with that old thought pattern. The less worry I had, the less analytical I was at night, so I could wind down and sleep. It's still a work in progress, like I said, and maybe always will be, but at least it's progress.
It just makes me so happy that this is helping you as much as it is
. That's why I wrote my experience because I thought if it helped me, maybe it could help someone else too. I hope others will read of our experiences and give it a try if they're suffering from insomnia. And I'm not saying all this to help make sales as any employee, but because I genuinely think it can help people with sleep issues. I can tell my sleep is getting better because all of this week I've been able to fall asleep on my own. No melatonin, no sleep aid, just me. It makes me think that my brain waves are learning to be more aligned or something.
Also, on a side note, I woke up feeling groggy one morning a few days ago, and started listening to the beta BWE to help me wake up a little faster. Did the trick! I think that took me about 20 minutes before I started to feel its benefits, but that's been a relatively new experience that I'll have to play around with here and there.
(10-21-2010, 03:19 AM)Ryan Wrote: I'm learning a lot about insomnia while I go through nicotine withdrawals. Chamomile Tea 1-4 times daily is pretty good as well.
Yea, that's good stuff. Any herbal tea at night seems to help me relax a lot. I'm not quite as devoted as you are at 1-4 times daily,lol, but maybe I should be!
