August 15, 2008
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Issue 19
Table of Contents
Bedtime Blues What to do when you can't sleep
Bedtime Blues
It's 3 a.m. You're scheduled to give a big presentation at eleven, only eight hours away.
You desperately need to sleep so you will be rested and alert when your big moment comes, but here you are staring wide eyed at the bedroom ceiling.
Your mind is agitated and your body won't relax.
The harder you work at getting to sleep, the wider awake you are.
You've already tried counting sheep, watching the late show, and making yourself a snack-all to no avail.
We've all experienced some form of insomnia at particularly stressful times in our lives.
It's normal to have trouble sleeping at these times, and it usually passes after a night or two.
Insomnia is a problem only when it becomes chronic.
Although it is associated with certain physical illnesses-arthritis, heart failure, and chronic lung disease, for example-most experts agree that insomnia is a symptom, not an illness in itself.
So what is it a symptom of?
There are two answers-the ancient and the modern.
At first glance they seem completely different, but a closer look reveals some remarkable similarities.
An Ancient Angle on a Modern Malady
Ayurveda, the healing science associated with yoga, tells us that all disease is caused by indigestion.
That is, at some level-either physical, mental, or emotional-we haven't completed extracting what is helpful and eliminating what is indigestible.
This is one of the keys to understanding insomnia.
On the physical level, indigestion is caused either by bad food or by weak digestion and leads to conditions like heartburn (a contributor to insomnia), flatulence, and diarrhea. Mental indigestion is the inability to let go of a certain incident or thought-usually an unpleasant experience.
This can be a distant tragedy like the earthquake in Kobe, Japan, criticism from someone whose opinion we value, or a work-related problem we're trying to solve.
Emotional indigestion is the recurrence of a feeling, often sadness or anger, long after the precipitating event.
The emotion has not been sufficiently digested and remains just under the surface, springing up for no apparent reason.
Mental and emotional indigestion are the most common causes of insomnia.
Some of us even grind our teeth while we sleep in an attempt to chew and digest recurring thoughts and emotions.
Next Month we will talk about: The Contemporary Angle
Sweet Dreams… but not for too long.
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