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There's a lot going on while you sleep. The average person goes through four to five sleep cycles every night. Each of those cycles has several stages: four different stages of NREM sleep and one stage of REM sleep. You go from light sleep to deep sleep and back again, over and over.
When your mind and body are fully rested and recharged, the cycles naturally conclude and you wake up. It's elegant and delicate and miraculous... unless you use an alarm clock, which throws a big clanging monkey wrench into the machinery of good sleep.
The worst way to start your day! When the alarm goes off, you're forced to wake up in the wrong cycle or stage of sleep. You're disoriented at first, you feel like crap, your natural hormone fluctuations are off kilter, and usually you keep feeling like a used tampon for a good part of the morning.
But people who have trained themselves to sleep and wake naturally without an alarm...
Are healthier overall
Have less stress
Experience fewer junk food cravings
Have more energy
Generally stay leaner
So, how do you do this? It seems impossible at first, I know. But it all starts with going to bed early, consistently. When the mind and body are fully rebooted by sleep, you wake up naturally. If the sleep process needs 30 minutes more or 30 minutes less, that's allowed to occur organically without interruption.
Your schedule will vary of course, but it all starts with hitting the sack earlier than you do now and allowing the sleep machinery to finish its job. Yes, I know you're busy and yes, I know you can't do this with a newborn in the house. (I also know you watch several hours of TV a night.) But at least try to allow yourself a "window" for your wake time rather than setting an alarm for a designated time.
To help this along, use a natural sleep aide like (Biotest's Z-12™) to regulate your sleep cycles and spend more time in the replenishing stages of sleep. What most people find with Z-12™ is that they're better able to complete all the sleep cycles because each one is more efficient and restorative.
GD
When your mind and body are fully rested and recharged, the cycles naturally conclude and you wake up. It's elegant and delicate and miraculous... unless you use an alarm clock, which throws a big clanging monkey wrench into the machinery of good sleep.
The worst way to start your day! When the alarm goes off, you're forced to wake up in the wrong cycle or stage of sleep. You're disoriented at first, you feel like crap, your natural hormone fluctuations are off kilter, and usually you keep feeling like a used tampon for a good part of the morning.
But people who have trained themselves to sleep and wake naturally without an alarm...
Are healthier overall
Have less stress
Experience fewer junk food cravings
Have more energy
Generally stay leaner
So, how do you do this? It seems impossible at first, I know. But it all starts with going to bed early, consistently. When the mind and body are fully rebooted by sleep, you wake up naturally. If the sleep process needs 30 minutes more or 30 minutes less, that's allowed to occur organically without interruption.
Your schedule will vary of course, but it all starts with hitting the sack earlier than you do now and allowing the sleep machinery to finish its job. Yes, I know you're busy and yes, I know you can't do this with a newborn in the house. (I also know you watch several hours of TV a night.) But at least try to allow yourself a "window" for your wake time rather than setting an alarm for a designated time.
To help this along, use a natural sleep aide like (Biotest's Z-12™) to regulate your sleep cycles and spend more time in the replenishing stages of sleep. What most people find with Z-12™ is that they're better able to complete all the sleep cycles because each one is more efficient and restorative.
GD
