HEALTHINFO@EarthyMe

Not everybody can just decide to sleep. Some have difficulty doing so that keeps them tossing and turning in bed. It’s not that they are not sleepy, they are but still sleep eludes them. The elders will probably blame it on being overly stressed or on too much on the mind that rest will not come. The mind continues to wander and the adrenaline still working.

Nutritionally, we will look in on our calcium reserves and have a glass of warm milk at bedtime to relax our muscles. Vitamin D also affects sleep with its effect on the body’s circadian rhythm. That’s why exposure to sunlight is important. Vitamin E likewise is being given consideration especially concerning restless leg syndrome thus the need for nuts especially almonds, mango and good oils such as corn, safflower and soybean oils. B- vitamins also have to be prioritized for the deficiencies that affects sleep; B6 for the sleep hormone production; and B12, Folic Acid and Niacin to avoid insomnia and sleep disruptions.

But there still are some things we can do to help us have the good night sleep when we want to, the way we want to. SILVA INSTITUTION SYSTEM explained it fairly well how sleeping happens. There are phases of sleep that is best achieved for us to feel rested. Is there a time when you sit up in bed as the alarm chimes and in your mind you say “did I sleep?” Sometimes it seems that you just lay down awake all night with your eyes closed. And there are times when you wake up feeling refreshed, with or without dreams. Just a thought, I wonder how they know and concluded on the meaning of dreams. They say that the first 90 minutes of sleep we are at the phase called Delta Phase. Then it shifts to Alpha and Theta where dreaming occurs.

But the problem usually is the dozing off. We can’t sleep. Some revert to sleeping pills or drugs to make them sleep which actually is more harmful than helpful. Silva says outright that “Drugs can actually be very counterproductive because they interfere with normal sleep and dream cycles.” These drugs make you claim sleep in a process that is not natural bypassing the phases which results to undesirable effects like irritability, confusion, memory gap, and mild hallucinations. Loss of libido is another consequence to face not anyone will appreciate.

And so Silva shares the most useful Sleep Control technique where she gives her personal way on how to fall asleep instantly. To best define it briefly, let’s call it the “boredom technique”. In your mind create a spiraling number counting from 100 and as you go along bear in mind the word “deeper”. As you go along doing this, your brain will perceive it as boring and shuts down the system. With mastery, you can go to sleep anytime you want to and wake up feeling rested and alert.

And there also are some who can’t seem to stop falling asleep the moment they get relaxed in a couch, or in any other chair. Notice people at church and see how many tries to fight back sleep? Maybe you are among them and learn the Silva Method Clock Exercise and Awake Control Exercise that helps you wake up when you need to…even before the alarm sets off. I love that Silva reveals that “the most amazing aspect of this exercise is the development of your ability to focus your attention on a goal and manifest that goal when you want”. It is therefore not just for your sleeping and waking but for your totality as a person.

As much as I want to sleep the whole 8 hours of the much needed sleep that I miss at night whenever I make my nights, my day...I just can't seem to do so. And one of the main reasons is the LIGHT OF DAY that is not there at night. That no matter how much I close my eyes or cover them with everything I can grab on to, I still feel the rays of the sun as if poking me saying, it's not the natural time to be sleeping.

Good thing there are those blinds to keep off too much sunlight to come inside our rooms, and i especially love those Wooden blinds. If before it was drapes and curtains, now its the much, much more practical blinds. Easy to clean, easy to use, no need to change, no need to stock in your cabinets...

So, for those that live their lives the other way around, their nights their days and their days their nights...no need to suffer sleeplessness. Just get yourself the venetian blinds that you need.

This is one of the major questions raised when an individual is indecisive whether to join with the call center craze that seems to be affecting all corners of the earth. WILL MY HEALTH BE COMPROMISED? Or CAN I BEAT THE PHYSIOLOGIC STRESS? Or WILL MY IMMUNE SYSTEM HOLD-UP TO THE DEMANDS OF SUCH NATURE OF WORK?

Under discussion is the individual’s ability to stay healthy while working in such an environment. It is not merely the type of work since being a customer service representative/agent uses none of those physical exertions other high paying jobs do (like nurses). Agents just answer calls after calls of enquiries that the customers need answered. They do so in an office that is conducive for such job ensuring that the comfort is somehow provided. But then what of the TIME?

Time is essentially affected in the sense that CSR’s usually deals with customers in another part of the world thus expected to be on the job at night when it is daytime on the other end to which the customers are in need of assistance. In so saying, CSR’s are awake when everybody else should be naturally sleeping. Take note that it is not merely completing the needed 6-12 hours of sleep to stay healthy BUT also of the quality of sleep. Here then enters the possible factors that can hinder that good quality of sleep: day time noise and the disturbing sunlight (both the heat and lighting it generates). These things affect the so called Circardian Rhythm that have to be in constant homeostasis, which I will discuss in the coming posts.


With this time includes the need to budget your time to make everything fit in to the schedule. Those given 15 minute breaks that you have to manage your food intake, the call of nature, the need to breathe and relax; the same with one hour lunch break as well. What of the appropriate time allotted to satisfy your customer at the other end of the line, or of the allowed time for you to put them on hold for you to be able to investigate or browse through their account? Therefore, bear in mind that you have a kidney, a heart, a whole system interconnected to take care of.

Yes it is stressful, but with proper time management and practice, you can get use to it. Well, not everybody can…but it is challenging to the extreme to know if YOU CAN?! Right?