Insomnia
Insomnia
Insomnia has affected millions of people around the world
everyday.
When a person experiences insomnia they often have difficulty
sleeping at night, and during the day, they may try to take a nap, but sleep never
comes.
The person often feels knots in the stomach and tension over the
entire body when insomnia rules the person’s life.
Talking from experience, I can say that insomnia is no road to
travel. When insomnia hits it brings forth impulsive actions, panic attacks, nervousness,
short temper inability to cope with stress, and so forth. The person rarely gets proper
nutrition, since the body is worn from lack of sleep, that food is no longer
appealing.
One of the key obstacles in the way of sleep when a person
undergoes insomnia is the mind is often chaotic. When a person lays down to rest the mind
starts wondering, worrying about things that haven’t happen yet. The person may worry how
they are going to pay bills, or else worry about death in the family that may not have
occurred yet.
There are several reasons that insomnia attacks, and sometimes it
is strictly the mind hindering the body from rest, while at other times mental illness is
underlying the surface. Persons that suffer Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome, Multiple
Personality Disorder, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Psychosis, or other disorders often experience
insomnia.
To cope with insomnia a person may need medications, or else if
you know how to use mind over matter you can learn strategies and techniques to help you
master insomnia. One of the first actions I attempted was training my mind to think
“sufficient for today, for no one knows what tomorrow will bring.”
This helped me to relax and not worry about anything outside of
today. I also trained my mind to think “one day at a time” and “I am only changing what I
can, and not worrying about what I can’t change.” I also said, “There is nothing I can do
about it right now, so don't worry about it.”
The training helped me to see that I was overwrought at times, and
worrying about things, I had no control over, thus this begin working.
Next, when I lay down to sleep I learned to train my mind to
“shut-up.” Shutting down the thoughts was a great strategy, since not long after I begin the
training I started sleeping with ease. Counting pigs, chickens, sheep, and other critters
jumping over the fence also helped.
Hey don’t laugh; I like to add humor to my life since that too
helps to minimize insomnia. If you can learn to find the humor in stressful actions, events,
et cetera, you can learn to laugh off the things you can’t change and sleep on the things you
can change.
Other great strategies for relieving insomnia is finding a stress
management scheme and time management plan to help you gain control of your life.
Stress management plans mean you are willing to exercise, practice
nutritional behaviors, taking time out for your self and learning techniques that will help
you to cope with stress and relax.
Time management schemes will help you to budget your income, which
will help you to avoid debts that also lead to insomnia. Time management schemes will also
help you to learn self-control, and how to plan a schedule that fits your
lifestyle
Studies have shown that those that fail to exercise often
experience stress. Stress is the leading cause of insomnia. Studies have shown also, that
particular types of exercise are more effective than other types of exercises for relieving
stress. Cardiovascular exercises are one of the best forms of exercises that minimize stress
while building the tools to cope.
The heart and body is affected immensely when stress occurs and
more so when insomnia takes control of the life. During an interview, I observed one man that
suffered insomnia and this person often made bad decisions during the course of a
day.
The man seemed to loose control of his spending, and participated
in drug intake to relieve his stress and tension built from lack of sleep.
While medications was needed in this particular case, but lack of
exercise and good diet led to the stress and insomnia that this man endured.
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