Why am I not sleeping? What can I do about it? Throughout these videos, you're going to hear me use the next phrase a lot. You have a tightness and/or contraction which equals to undue stress in that area, limiting oxygen, nutrition, blood supply to that area. This is also known as trap yawn (ph).
What has happened here is your brain is not getting enough oxygen, blood supply and sufficient nutrition. This confuses the body putting it on a state of alert and initiating your fight-or-flight response system, also known as your self preservation mode.
The fight-or-flight response initiates only when your body is under attack. The muscles located around your neck and shoulders, chest and back are too tight. This is what is constricting the oxygen, blood supply and nutrition to your brain. This is also the early stages of chronic fatigue syndrome. All you have to do is to relax that area, located around the neck, shoulders, chest, back and you'll sleep again.
There are a number of ways that you can do this, ultimately they're all doing the same thing and that is putting flexibility or space back into the head, shoulder, chest and back areas that was originally there before you had your problem.
There are a number of ways that you can do this. Get a therapeutic massage, do yoga, Tai Chi, do some form of exercise before you go to bed. If it is your regular exercise program then do it at least 2 hours before you go to bed because an exercise program's initial response is to wake up the body or you have the option of doing a gentle walk 20 minutes before you go to bed.
All of these things relax the body, thereby bringing more oxygen, blood supply and nutrition to your brain. It would be a good idea to continue whatever process or multiple processes you're doing until the problem re-adjusts itself and is drained out of the body.
This usually happens at a two week mark. So, continue your process for at least two weeks. But what plays a big part is how long you have had this condition, the longer you have had the condition of not sleeping, the longer it may take to have the process trained out, but it won't take forever, because our bodies are made to change and change happens rather quickly.
Your body is a machine and only a machine, and must do what you train it to do. We are training our bodies all the time or teaching our bodies what to expect. We get into trouble at times through non-action, meaning that, something has entered our system that is over-stressing it, it could be mental or physical and we did nothing about it.
We left it there. Body memory was created, teaching the body that it belongs there, it grew and stayed. Pain is felt by the body when there is a nerve being compressed but if a nerve is not being compressed or is involved, we do not feel pain. The stress is still there, we just don't feel it. That's why it's always a good idea to do some form of self-maintenance.
Have you ever got a massage and said to yourself afterwards, boy! I had no idea that I was tight in all those areas. Stress is stress, whether you feel it as pain or a chronically tight muscle. All forms of stress do the same thing to the human body.
It creates the potential for problems to happen and happen they will. We do a lot of stressful things to our bodies all the time. Wouldn't it be nice to do something that removes the stress we create on our bodies, at least once in a while? Thank you.
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