I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sleep,
Perchance to dream...
- William Shakespeare
You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health...
Morpheous is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke.
My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you.
- Sir Isaac Newton, on the value of sleep, and harm of eating poorly while intent on study.
Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.
- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
- Harold Wilson
Under normal conditions people react to a threat with a temporary increase in their stress hormones. As soon as the threat is over, the hormones dissipate and the body returns to normal. The stress hormones of traumatized people, in contrast, take much longer to return to baseline and spike quickly and disproportionately in response to mildly stressful stimuli. The insidious effects of constantly elevated stress hormones include memory and attention problems, irritability, and sleep disorders. They also contribute to many long-term health issues, depending on which body system is most vulnerable in a particular individual.
- Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.
- Michael Moore
Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the expense of sleep, every disturbance of routine, becomes a nuisance.
- Marcel Proust
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
- William Shakespeare
At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
- Mehmet Oz, M.D.
Clinical Praxis™ Protocols
Sleep Therapies
We sleep for about 1/3 of our lives.
During that time, our bodies detoxify and regenerate.
Some of our most transcendent elements are highly active at night.
The Wood Element's Gall Bladder Meridian is at peak energy from 11 PM - 1 A and the Liver Meridian dominates from 1 AM - 3 AM.
The Metal Element's Lung Meridian time is 3 AM - 5 AM and Large Intestine Meridian time is 5 AM - 7 AM.
The timing of sleep to cover these times in the Chinese Meridian Clock is very helpful to optimize tissue cleansing and repair.
We explain to clients and fellow caregivers that an hour of sleep before midnight is worth two hours after midnight...
Benefits of better sleep:
1. Heart health
2. Cancer prevention
3. Stress reduction
4. Reduces inflammation
5. Improves alertness
6. Enhances memory
7. Weight optimization
8. Increases intelligence
9. Avoid depression
10. Body repairs
11. Boost immunity
12. Stimulates creativity
13. Improves physical performance
14. Longer lifespan
For many years as a health practitioner, patients' issues with sleep quality were among the most challenging to overcome in order to optimize their healing capacity.
Now we have developed Sleep Therapy protocols that resolve these issues rapidly in all but the most unusual cases.
A first step in every case is to ensure that the sleep environment is energetically peaceful by eliminating as many technical EMF sources as possible.
That means leaving in Airplane Mode all night, and preferably out of the bedroom.
WiFi should be replaced with a wired internet in the home and office, and in the meantime at least turned off during sleep hours at a minimum.
Also, replace cordless phone systems with corded phones.
Reduction of sensitivity to EMF by removing heavy metal burdens in the body is also crucial for those whose health is already impaired.
Our book Electromagnetic Pollution Solutions, updated several times since it was originally written in the 1980s is still an excellent guide to solving the many facets of electro-pollution.
This was the first book I published because I learned that one out of three people failed to heal with energetically correct natural remedies because of interference from electromagnetic stress fields.
In the 4 decades since that time, we are now subject to quadrillions of times more EMF than we were then...
The retinal tissues in the eyes as well as in the pineal are electromagnetic receptors that can be triggered by EMF as well as by light.
Either type of stimulus can disrupt sleep patterns and pineal secretion of melatonin.
We eliminate any light frequencies higher than red for the duration of sleep.
That would include any white light, such as turning on a light during the night, or green or blue LED lights on electronic devices.
We introduce red Biocompatible Nightlights in the bedroom, hallway and bathroom areas to promote safe and easy navigation when a trip to the toilet is needed during the night.
Red light not only preserves night vision, but also allows for easily falling back to sleep, and preserves the pineal's ability to continue producing melatonin through the remainder of the night.
In the bedroom, we specify that the red light is a Therapeutic Nightlight which is a soft laser light source in the frequency range that promotes increased mitochondrial activity in the skin and eye tissues.
Functional Formulations™ for Sleep
Sleep Synergy supports sleep gently, and can be taken near bedtime or any time during the night when sleeplessness is an issue.
Brain Cleanse is taken within a half hour of bedtime, and includes enough slow release Melatonin to support the brain's glymph drainage system throughout the night.
Research on slow release Melatonin shows improved vision in Macular Degeneration.
Melatonin Max is a high dose melatonin taken at bedtime based on research with weight management and cancer.
Other Nighttime formulas:
Stress Release can be used for stress reduction any time of day, including at bedtime.
OcuFlow Bedtime is designed to support Intraocular Pressure (IOP) reduction during sleep, as well as supporting maintenance of peripheral vision.
Melatonin is the primary regulator of IOP during sleep. Eye pressure tends to be very different during the day and the night in Glaucoma compared to the normal diurnal pattern. Sleep quantity, quality, and posture are important factors. To learn more ways you can reduce your IOP while you sleep without drugs (and every other aspect of self healing, no matter what your challenge) we invite you to join us in our All Heal non-profit organization's Accelerated Self Healing (ASH) online community for access to all of our free courses, including our Healing Glaucoma course. The community also offers interaction with others like you as well as access to our open office hours.
Melatonin is the only hormone that communicates directly to the nucleus of every cell in the body, entraining the coordinated function of all systems to coherent circadian rhythms that follow the diurnal pattern of light and dark of this womb of Heaven, our earthly home in the cosmos in which we prepare to meet our eternity...
Sleep & Health Reference:
Short- and long-term health consequences of sleep disruption
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5449130/
If you would like to consult with us, we can design a personal Accelerated Self Healing™ program for you. Apply here..
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
- Dale Carnegie
...In a Chinese study, gratefulness decreased depression and improved sleep.
- Charles Stone
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.
- Sivananda
Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.
- Hippocrates
Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.
- Heraclitus
Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.
- Daymond John
Melatonin is the only hormone that communicates directly to the nucleus of every cell in the body, entraining the coordinated function of all systems to coherent circadian rhythms that follow the diurnal pattern of light and dark of this womb of Heaven, our earthly home in the cosmos in which we prepare to meet our eternity...
- Glen Swartwout, O.D., N.D.