Indigestion is a cause of lack of sleep

Indigestion - The #1 Physical Cause of Lack of Sleep

By Carla Chausser

Although lack of sleep is a symptom of various illnesses, it happens also in otherwise healthy people. Most of the times it is rooted in fear and apprehension. There are cases though, when its causes are simply put, physical, such as toothaches or our average indigestion.

One of the most overlooked causes of lack of sleep is physical indigestion. We take our body for granted and we forget in the process that our digestive track is one of the main drivers of our internal system.

How many of us get to become old and never have complained about this digestion problem or another at some point in their lives? Sadly, indigestion brings along with it many problems, and lack of sleep is simply put, a major one of them.

Indigestion comes in three different forms:

- physical, which means your regular eating disorders, such as eating too much late at night, or too many sweets, which basically involves changing our diet

- mental, which occurs when regardless of one's diet, a person stays up all night musing on the previous day's activities, unsolved problems

- emotional, which includes people who constantly worry about the world, about general problems, political, financial and otherwise, or about a relationship going down the drains

So unlike you would think, indigestion is not just physical, but also involves a whole range of emotional and mental processes, which leave one drained, and cause as result insomnia, or lack of sleep.

Although physical indigestion and insomnia has been clearly connected from early on, scientists nowadays are trying to find more about the connection between other types of indigestion and lack of sleep, as there has definitely proved to be one.

Of course, there are much more to insomnia than just indigestion. To read more about lack of sleep, I keep an online diary on several aspects of this disease, as well as ways to treat it and I invite you to visit and drop me a line. Come over to http://lack-of-sleep.com/

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Lack of sleep is a definitive symptom of stress

Sometimes lack of sleep is a stand-alone illness. However, lack of sleep can be also a symptom of nervous tension, or stress.

n today’s society, we are constantly pressured to get from one place to another. Or sometimes we are asked to accept more responsibility than we feel physically or mentally capable of handling. Anxiety or the stress of an unpleasant situation at home or work can put us on edge so we experience lack of sleep at night. Even if we are not confronted by these problems, a barking dog or wailing siren may produce just enough noise to keep us from enjoying a sound, energy-restoring sleep. When the next day instead of refreshed, we feel tired, we become prime targets for even more nervous tension. Even bland foods may fail to digest well as our tensions are transmitted to the nerves surrounding the stomach. An uninterrupted flow of nervous energy is essential in fighting these symptoms of nervous tension.

One way to alleviate that nervous tension and cure lack of sleep is through meditation. You don’t need to spend more than 10-15 a day meditating. However it is good do it regularly, every day. Since I’ve started meditating I’ve noticed a big difference in my stress levels, I am less anxious, my stomach is not so nervous anymore, I no longer have ‘butterflies in the stomach’, and I sleep much better.

If you have never tried meditation, it might be a bit daunting at first what to start with. I think a simple breathing meditation technique would be best. This implies noticing your breath while you are inhaling and exhaling. If your mind wanders, just gently bring it back to following your breath again in and out of your body.

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I have lack of sleep, insomnia and I'm trying to find a way out of it. Hence this blog. I will post my experiences, other articles found on the net about this subject, and hopefully together we will find a cure for it.