Chinese Medicine -why am I waking up at 3am? sleep disorder? Posted: 10-16-07 19:02pm
Can anyone tell me what Chinese medicine
has to say about waking repeatedly at 3AM
might mean? Thanks.
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yogahoneybunny
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Posted: 10-17-07 06:32am
Not sure about Chinese medicine - but I
believe that this is the time of night
when things are most still in the world.
It might simply mean that your intuition
is waking you to connect with yourself.
Do you practice meditation?
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homeschoolmom
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Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Atlanta, ga USA
Posted: 12-10-07 21:55pm
Long story short...My 16 years of insomnia
was traced to mostly "self stress" through
muscle testing at my local vitamin store.
When I scaled my busyness and overdoing
way back I began sleeping. I began
saying no, cutting back my to-do list, not
letting myself overdo it and letting my
housework go (we live like pigs). I
stopped waking often about 5 years ago. I
still have it only 3 times a year or if I
drink more than 3 beers and when I do it's
a signal to slow down and declutter my
schedule.
Don't bother going to a sleep doc. unless
you suspect restless leg syndrome or sleep
apnea. They'll just tell you that you're
a lousy sleeper like they did me and
prescribe meds that stop working after a
few weeks. And make you gain weight!
Try bach flower essence with slowing down
your life...you can get a bottle at the
health food store. Buy white chestnut or
is it red chestnut? Tell them you want
the one for "mental chatter" that happens
when you wake at night.
Or you may want to check out
"healerswhoshare.com" and found someone
who can muscle test their remedies and see
if one relates to your insomnia. About
1/3 of my insomnia related to these very
low level funks I would get into about 3
times a year that lasted several weeks. I
didn't even realize I was having them
because I was so productive and busy.
A TCM practitioner will tell you that
anything that happens between 1-3am
relates to the liver system which is also
related to anger. I don't know about you,
but when I'm very busy or in a sad funk I
am irritable and hard to be around! I
started getting accupuncture monthly about
a year ago and it really helps calm you
down and get rid of stress. But you're
going to have to learn to pull back from
this way to crazy world too.
Good luck, I feel for you. Waking up and
not going back to sleep is no fun.
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