How to Relax to Sleep

Sleep relaxes and rejuvenates both the body and the mind. Natural sleep is a natural human instinct for relaxation of muscles. According to Chinese medicine, natural sleep is holistic health and wellness. .

In a CNN news report, sleep deprivation affects the size of your brain. In the article, Dr. Neal Maru, a neurologist and sleep specialist with Integrated Sleep Services in Alexandria, Virginia, says: “Poor sleep can affect our immune system, our cardiovascular health, weight, and, of course, memories.” Indeed, insomnia is an immune system wrecker. Therefore, it is important to have natural sleep to protect your immune system to alleviate, if not to cure, your myasthenia gravis disease symptoms. 

Given that sleep is a natural process, it is against nature to artificially induce sleep with medications. Do not use sleep medicine to overcome insomnia. The reason is that all pharmaceutical drugs are loaded with toxic chemicals that further damage your compromised immune system.

Take Control of Your Health and Escape the Sickness Industry: is an informative and inspirational book by Elaine Hollingsworth, the movie-star-turned-heath-crusader, who explains in detail how understanding dangerous drugs, unreliable medical tests, and often-times unnecessary procedures may help you escape the sickness industry through healthy sleep and natural health. Do not fall into the trap of the sickness industry by taking more dangerous drugs, such as sleep medications, which not only are dangerous but also create the drug-dependence.

To overcome insomnia or get natural sleep, perform this simple Chinese Taoist exercise:

• Lie on your back. Bend both knees.
• Use both hands to pull your knees towards your chest, and breathe naturally.
• Hold for one to two minutes, and relax.
• Straighten your legs, putting your arms and hands at your sides. Relax for one to two minutes.
• Take a deep breath, and stretch both arms upwards above your head.
• Then, slowly bring your hands down while you breathe out.
• Massage your body from your chest to your abdomen for a few minutes.
• Bring both hands at your sides, and relax.
• Repeat as necessary until you feel drowsy and fall asleep.

This exercise is good not just for insomnia, but also for your lower back pain, if it is performed on a hard surface.

No ego, no stress,  and no insomnia! Get rid of your ego may help you get rid of your stress, thereby instrumental in making you sleep better.

Stephen Lau

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