Specific soft music that sooths you and works subliminally is a great help for insomnia.
There are products ready made to work but you can choose any soothing music from certain stores, just go and see what suits you best, and work it on a self rewinding cd or tape!
Also, a blender mix or banana and milk, and avoid coffees and cafeine in any other drinks.
Below is a combination of herbs you may take or try alone and in combination. Also some information on brain waves and certain music to assist your sleep.
Try to go for cycling or a run or some form of exercise before you are ready to sleep.
Don't sit on the same position if you can't go back to sleep, whalk around for a bit until you tire or change the usual place of sleep, go on the floor, or the couch etc.
I hope any of this helps you!
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What Brainwave Entrainment Is
Brainwave entrainment means that a particular beat or rhythm will guide your brain's electrical pulses, which are called brainwaves, into a new rhythm. Your brain, when it "hears" the new beat will follow it and begin to pulse at the same rate.
When brainwave entrainment is used to cure insomnia the brainwaves we want to guide you into are the waves of sleep. When you are sleeping your brainwaves slow right down. The brainwave entrainment audio you are listening to will guide your brainwaves into the rhythm of sleep. When this happens you will fall asleep.
brainwave patterns
This Is What Happens When You Sleep
As you most likely know your brain uses electrical signals to communicate with all the systems in your body. The rate of these electrical pulses, or brainwaves, can be measured using an EEG (electroencephalograph) machine. The pulses vary in their rhythm depending on what you are doing.
When we are alert and busy the activity in our brains is fast and the waves are closer together. When we are relaxed the wave pattern is much slower. As we begin to go to sleep, the brain waves become slower still.
If you can't sleep when you go to bed your brain waves are most likely not slowing down. If you have a busy mind and can't stop thinking, then you are not relaxing. Your brain waves will just keep on going fast like the beta waves shown above.
But what you want is for them to slow down like the alpha waves. Brainwave entrainment can slow them for you automatically just by listening. Relaxation is necessary for sleep. Without that relaxation and slowing down of the brainwaves sleep will not come.
When your brainwaves slow down, your heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing and muscle tension all relax too. As you listen you become very deeply relaxed and will fall asleep. This process is used in the 'Go To Sleep' CD and the 'Relax into Sleep' CD to send you to sleep.
The idea is to get the brain waves to slow right down to alpha and then slower still to theta and then delta waves. As this happens you drift gently into a natural sleep.
If you would like to know more about brainwave entrainment just click here- it will open in a new window. Learn More About Brainwave Entrainment
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It's the blend of ingredients that assists night sleep
Calcium - sleeplessness has been associated with calcium for centuries. People who don't have enough calcium have two sleep-related problems. First, they have great difficulty falling asleep. In most cases this occurs because low tissue calcium produces irritability. They're just too upset to be able to fall asleep. Second, people with low calcium levels are plagued with muscle cramps at night. These painful cramps occur even without any real exertion during the day. A calcium to magnesium imbalance causes these muscles to remain in a constant state of contraction.
Chamomile - Chamomile flowers are used in alternative medicine as an anodyne, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, nervine, stomachic, tonic, vasodilatory. The herb has pronounced anti-inflammatory activity, promotes wound healing, combats certain bacteria on the skin, and has a mild tranquilizing effect. Chamomile has been known to treat anxiety and sleeplessness.
Jujube -The jujube originated in China where they have been cultivated for more than 4,000 years. Jujube is widely used in Chinese traditional medicine for the treatment of sleeplessness and anxiety; it relieves nervous tension and apprehension. Also, compounds in jujube prevent damage to nerve cells.
Magnesium - Magnesium supplements may be helpful for relieving restless leg syndrome (RLS) and for treating sleeplessness. Magnesium is a mineral that is needed by every cell of the body. Magnesium is needed for bone, protein, and fatty acid formation, making new cells, activating B vitamins, relaxing muscles, clotting blood, and forming ATP - the muscle's energy source. Melatonin also regulates the heart by maintaining normal heart rhythm; converts blood sugar into energy; and promotes deep sleep.
Melatonin - Melatonin is a hormone made by a part of the brain called the pineal (say: "pin-ee-all") gland. Melatonin may help our bodies know when it's time to go to sleep and when it's time to wake up. Melatonin deficiency may cause sleep disorders, immune deficiency conditions, and depression. Melatonin has been found to alleviate sleep disorders and boost the immune system.
Niacin - Niacin is a member of the Vitamin B-complex, otherwise known as Vitamin B3. Like most of the B-vitamins, niacin is primarily required for energy metabolism, specifically converting carbohydrates into energy. Other than energy metabolism, proper intake of niacin keeps the skin healthy. It can also be used therapeutically to control cholesterol levels, maintain proper circulation, act as an anti-inflammatory to ease arthritis symptoms, balance blood sugar levels for the prevention of diabetes, and finally, it can be used to stimulate a healthy nervous system, thus easing symptoms of depression, anxiety and sleeplessness. (For people who can't take Niacin please order Great Night Sleep 2™, it contains zero niacin.)
Passion Flower - Passion Flower is the herb of choice for treating intransigent sleeplessness. Passion Flower is a naturally grown medicinal herb, approved by the German Commission E in the treatment of sleeplessness and nervousness. It is also used as a sedative in nervous disorders (including gastrointestinal complaints of nervous origin), difficulties in sleeping, and anxiety or restlessness. The sedative effect of Passion flower has made it popular for treating a variety of ailments, including nervousness and sleeplessness. Research had indicated that passion flower has a complex activity on the central nervous system (CNS), which is responsible for its overall tranquilizing effects. Also, it apparently has an antispasmodic effect on smooth muscles within the body, including the digestive system, promoting digestion.
Valerian - Valerian, a member of the Valerianaceae family, is a perennial plant native to Europe and Asia and naturalized in North America. Used for thousands of years as a folk remedy, tranquilizer, and sedative for disorders such as restlessness, anxiety, and sleeplessness; scientifically proven to be a safe and effective anti-anxiety agent and sedative. Valerian is a common ingredient which is used as a mild sedative and sleep aid for nervous tension and sleeplessness. Many chemical constituents of valerian have been identified, but it is not known which may be responsible for its sleep-promoting effects. It is likely that there is no single active compound and that valerian's effects result from multiple constituents acting independently or synergistically.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
Although knowing me, it will take me a week to go back to deep sleeping....Yeah...anything used to aid sleep IME always tends to backfire just a couple of days after , and I hate nothing more than not being able to sleep well.