We teach best what we are learning.  I have had sleep challenges, to say the lease, for more than twenty years.  During that time I’ve researched, experimented and asked a lot of questions.  And, by trial and success have gleaned some Truths for you.

The most critical aspect of good sleep goes first:

• Spiritual, emotional and mental well being – That is a
  broad stroke so I’ll cut to the chase. Do what you love, say what you
  need to say, Trust that everything is going to be OK regardless of what
  others do and work hard.
• Now the rest of the story – The more of these you do, the deeper the sleep.
• The deeper we relax the more freedom who we are, Soul, has to go
  on adventures while the body is repairing from the days activities. 
  Dreams are experiences to learn from and expand on to conscious
  dreaming, Soul Travel and other miracles. Think about what you want to
  know, experience, learn and ask and experiment and it will happen.

Environment – Make your bedroom as dark as possible.  Insure
it is quiet, uncluttered, clean and pleasant aromas. Plants are life and
oxygen giving additions. Remove absolutely all electrical devices from
your bedroom.  Everything.  If you want a clock and/or alarm get a battery powered one.  Nothing electrical in the room if possible.  And,
here is the icing on the cake.  If you can turn the breakers off to your
bedroom w/o disrupting the household, better yet.  When I built my home
I had the electricians place a switch outside my bedroom turning off
all electric to the room.

Diet – This is challenging
because many of us eat so late these days.  It is mission critical to
have as long as possible between taking food and sleep as possible –
three hours is minimum, so work on that.  Eat lighter at night.  If you
are a carnivore, have your meat at noon and do soups, brown rice, root
vegetables, salad at night.

Lifestyle – Exercise in the
morning or 3-5 PM is best.  Yoga, mediation and quiet reading before
bed is helpful.  Personally, I had to virtually give up television to
sleep.  Sometimes watching movies on DVD in the evening is hard on me. 
I’m sensitive, so just experiment and see what works for you.  Yet, I
am sure that traditional television messes with ones neurotransmitters
and overall mind.brain function that we will only sometime truly
understand its impact.  Regular exposure to sunshine will keep your
body clock set right and really help with sleep.

Superfoods
– There are amazing foods available now that supply key nutrients,
amino acids and magical things that just make everything work better.
Here are some of our top favorites:  Goji Berries, Noni, Bee Pollen,
Honey, Maca, Cacao, Rishi Mushrooms, Hemp Oil, Krill Oil, Kefir,
Fermented Foods, Quality Green SuperFood Mixes and MSM.  Those are a
few to start with.

A couple Ayurveda principals are fun and
powerful to consider:  Apply a light coating of sesame oil all over
your body first thing in the morning.   Exercise, do what you do and
then shower and dress for work.  This helps sleep and soften and
beautifies the skin.  Also, sesame oil on the soles of the feet at
night is helpful.  Black Cherry Juice promotes sleep as well as pumkin
seeds.  Taking a piece of pineapple at 9 PM is a good thing to do.

And
lastly, for now, go to sleep at 10 PM.  It has been said over the years
that the sleep between 10 PM and 1 AM is the most critical.  That may
be true.  A wise man did once remark, "Early to bed, early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Let me know of your success in the world of sleep and share some of your tips with all of here.

Sleep Tight.

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