SLEEP and SUFFERING

 Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up.    If you don’t want to suffer, don’t go to sleep. Nisagardatta Maharaj Consciousness and the Absolute 112-114

Purple Haze-

Sweet Scents = Sweet Sleep?  Too often this simple equation is overlooked in people’s quest for a good night sleep.  The most common scent and best known to help with sleep, is lavender. Lavender was used to scent the Roman baths and during the Middle Ages, was rubbed on the gloves of workers to ward off [...]

Losing more than Sleep

NATIONAL SLEEP AWARENESS WEEK

Celebrate National Sleep Awareness Week®! National Sleep Awareness Week takes place March 1-8, 2009 and  coincides with the return of Daylight Saving Time/  This annual “springing forward” of clocks often causes the people in the states affected, to lose an hour of sleep. Read our ‘Sleep Tips and Sleep Hygiene’ sections to make this transition easier and- [...]

Sleeping on a Cloud-

Prana Mattress        Sometimes in our quest for a good night’s sleep, we overlook the obvious. Like the condition of our mattress. Just like Goldilocks, you have to find the one that’s ‘just right.’

Bananas are A-Peeling-

To help you sleep. Really, how many times have you seen monkeys snoozing at the zoo?  Bananas, like milk have triptophan which stimulates the production of melatonin for sleep and seratonin in the brain that induces calmness.  Milk, bananas and a turkey sandwich an hour or two before bed and sweet sleep is on it’s way.

Watching the Clock

As cool as it is having a clock in your bedroom that beams the time on your ceiling, it’s a definite sleep stealer.  Turn off the light, set the alarm and let it go.  Use 2 alarms if you are worried about not hearing the first, but try to keep your bedroom as dark as possible.  [...]