The ability to rest is the body’s key to healing. If you can’t heal, you will get sick and different systems of the body begin to become affected. When you sleep, you are resting and resetting the body. You have to reset the body otherwise it will become exhausted. It’s like re-booting a computer...

We live in a very busy world. There is so much to do, children to take care of, cooking, cleaning, work and deadlines. We quite often are going around in a state of stress and anxiety and not even aware of it. We live on automatic pilot for the most, with routine tasks and similar reactions to situations and events. As humans, we are pre-programmed to focus on what’s wrong and to find solutions to what we perceive as problems. When we can’t sleep, we fight against these problems and try so hard to get to sleep...

In order to understand sleep we will look at the basics of sleep regulation: the structures of the brain that control wakefulness and sleep, and the external factors that can influence both. The affects hormones have on our sleep, how our brain activity determines our sleep quality, our brain health and why we dream, are a significant part of the science of sleep...

You could have a sleeping disorder if you have any kind of disturbance affecting you getting asleep at night or staying asleep resulting in feeling exhausted the next day. 

70 million Americans suffer with sleeping disorders and the majority don’t even realise they have one. People who are suffering with chronic sleep deprivation are not getting enough sleep voluntarily because their lifestyle is too hectic and busy. Our perception on sleep is that we don’t have enough time to sleep and as a result, sleep is sacrificed...