Sleep Issues? Things to try

I’ve had many people experiencing sleep issues over the years I’ve worked as an osteopath and as a healer. While energy healing can certainly help, often the practical issues are more important, so giving out practical advice is something I regularly do.

Sleep is incredibly important. While some experienced meditators can get away with less sleep due to being in stillness, it is incredibly important to sleep so that the body can heal and be energised ready for the next day. Otherwise a lack of sleep can create all sorts of mental, emotional and physical dis-ease.

There are a great many reasons why you might not be sleeping. Some of the ideas below might work for you better than others and you might find you need to try several of them.

I will be focusing on the more practical things you can do in this blog post, as the energetic/spiritual side of things can also be very wide-ranging and it would be better to work on people on a case-by-case basis. They can include Etheric implants astral parasites etc (which as regulars to my website & services know, are not the root cause of your issues), energy blocks, beliefs/limitations coming up to be challenged. Please do book in for an appointment if you wish some help on this level.

Dietry intake – no seriously please read this part!

What you eat is perhaps one of the more important things to look into. It is often the last thing people are willing to change also!

It really amazes me how unwilling spiritual people are at looking at and especially changing their diet and would rather carry on eating things that affect their energetic field negatively and find something else to blame.

The aura and physical body are reciprocally related. So it is worthwhile helping your physical body help your aura, not just the other way around.

Needless to say that things found in modern foods are terrible for creating imbalances in the body that can make it hard to sleep in various ways. The list of these chemicals is long and would require a whole separate article to list, let alone explain the reasons why.

Obviously eating things as close to how they would be naturally (not what companies claim is “Natural”!) helps you to avoid many chemicals.

Other than that, it would be best to have one-to-one advice with an experienced practitioner than give you advice here, that may not work for everyone.

Trying out the advice of a practitioner is important regardless of what you think might help or not. If you don’t follow a set plan for a certain period, it can be very difficult for a practitioner to know what is working or not and how to alter the diet for it to work better for you. I say this as from experience as an ex-biochemist, personal trainer & osteopath, as well as in my current line of work. People are terrible at giving a program or advice enough of a try 😉

You might find that some practitioners might not be able to help you. Afterall, most are trained to tell you what to eat based on what governments & health organisations push on people, rather than what truly is healthy – i.e. based on questionable science.

Be careful of certain types of nutritionists or doctors that might try and use drugs that might help initially but don’t help in the long run, due to the imbalances that drugs create!

If you are looking for a practitioner then I can recommend my wife – www.thenordicnutritionist.com. I know I may be biased here but I know from the amount of hours she pours over scientific studies and how she tests everything to see if it truly works or not and realises that not everything will work for everyone, that she will be of great help.

A naturopath like my wife, may have an idea of what organ is affected by whether you have trouble getting to sleep or if you tend to wake up at certain times – each organ tends to be more active a certain times of the night. This can help guide nutritional advice and/or highlight other issues going on they may affect sleep and other diseases.

Some supplements you can try

Supplements are just that. Things that you can add to boost the effectiveness of your diet. They are NOT a substitute for a good diet and can often be a waste of money if you are still eating things that don’t allow the supplement to work or is used up to help detox the body from the chemicals you might be eating. However they can often supply a bit of a boost and make a difference in some circumstances.

• Magnesium salt baths & supplements can be very effective for sleep. Most people are said to be low on magnesium, as magnesium is used up a lot when stressed. More magnesium helps to relax the sympathetic nervous system and body in general, helping to promote sleep.
• Ashwaganda can be helpful especially if there is anxiety causing a lack of sleep.
• Tart cherry juice helps stimulate the production of melatonin (essential for good sleep rhythms). It helps with joint pain too.
• Lavender oil can help with sleep as it’s a relaxing oil.

  

• Premier Research Labs (PR labs) melatonin & PR labs tranquinol are two very good products that are very well energetically balanced. PR labs products are made by an intelligent man in the USA who looks at the energetic as well as chemical aspects, so their products are some of the best supplements in the world. Some are expensive due to costs of making them that way but some are cheap because are cheap to make. If you cannot get hold of PR labs products, there are others, such as Global Healing Centre products.
• Eggs, cheese, almonds, dark leafy greens and turkey are high in tryptophan, the pre-cursor of melatonin (Tryptophan>Serotonin>Melatonin). They can be good to eat during the day to make sure you are making enough melatonin. Turkey has worked well for friends of ours as an evening meal.
• B vitamins (especially B6 if you’ve been on certain medications like birth control pills) are essential in a lot of metabolic pathways to make chemicals in the body for a whole host of reasons. B12 is especially important for stress and digestion. Again the liquid supplement versions are best here especially the PR Labs B vitamin supplement which I highly recommend. Too many B vitamins later in the day will keep you awake though, so take them in the morning.

Again a naturopath or other specialist may give you more dietry advice that could help.

Things to try, avoid or remove

• Reduce caffeine and/or avoid 8 hours before bed. The effects of caffeine can last up to 8 hours and due to caffeine being a stimulant, it will keep you active, rather than ready for sleep.
• Sugar & alcohol. For similar reasons to caffeine but they also can create a lot of issues with the gut and other digestive & supportive organs also helping to keep you awake.
• Eating too late in the day – try to leave a few hours between your last meal/snack and bed otherwise that can keep you up when your body is still trying to digest food.
• Avoid sleeping next to too many electrical appliances and electric sockets. Knowing if there are wires in the wall near your bed is something to check. There are multiple reasons for this as there are many different types of radiations from different technologies. Take anything that you don’t need out of the room and switch them off – flight mode on phones/tablets just stops certain radiations but not others. Anything that is supposedly “Smart technology” is something that is not good for you so keep those out of your bedroom. They can leave an energetic imprint in an area they have been so try to keep your bedroom just for sleeping and entertain yourself in another room. I have written many blog articles on this sort of thing if you want to go deeper.
• Some people like to switch off the electricity to their whole house or at least the non-essential circuits at night so they can sleep better.
• Sometimes just moving the bed a few inches more from a wall or away from a particular wall entirely that has cables inside it, or worse a smart meter the other side of the wall helps.

  

• Use harmonising devices/objects, especially if you really cannot switch off the electricity. There is lots of advice about this on my website blog and youtube videos. Notice how they work in different ways and so don’t harmonise everything. Try some of those options out. If you use crystals them make sure you cleanse them regularly with salt or sunlight.
• If you live in an area where there is a lot of radiation such as living near a power pylon, near telecommunications towers, in a 5G area, have multiple people’s wifi signals reaching your home then you might want to consider certain EMF blocking paints/wall paper/blinds etc that block out signals from outside. Many people just do this in their bedroom if it’s too expensive to do the whole house. This is due to materials such as gold, silver or other expensive metals used in these products.
• For the same reasons above, maybe try a faraday cage in your bedroom. Especially if you are super sensitive to EMFs.
• Avoid too much phone/tablet/laptop/TV etc screen time, especially in the early morning/when you get up and in the evening and especially close to going to bed. These modern screens have an overabundance of blue light to make them brighter and easier to read from. This is not natural though as you body is designed to receive light from the sun that is naturally more red, orange then yellow as it rises in the morning and the opposite when it dips in the evening. Your production of Serotonin is greatly affected by the wavelengths of light through the day. You body is designed to make Serotonin during the middle of the day where there is a balance of all the colours of light from the sun, then when the colours change more towards red and then it goes dark, you body is designed to turn that serotonin into melatonin for sleeping. This cycle is highly disrupted by modern lights.

  

• If you cannot avoid screen time, then try at least not to do it close to bed time. Or you can buy blue-blocking glasses to give the effect of a low sun whilst you watch the screen.
• Modern light bulbs are a problem for the same reason as they have a huge amount of blue light in them so you can see better. The energy saving light bulbs also contain poisonous chemicals in them such as mercury, so if they break in your house they are very dangerous unless you know how to clean them up properly. The flourescent bulbs are also dangerous because they put out huge amounts of radiation and flash in an inconsistent manner that disturbs the brain. So especially in areas that you spend in before going to bed, swap to LED bulbs that at least have a candle-like colour to them. You can often find charts on the colour ranges of different bulbs before you buy them. Light may seem like a strange thing but you are digesting light 24 hours a day!

  

• Red & infrared lamps help the body switch on the night-time routine inside of the body, as these are the frequencies of light you get more of when the sun goes down. Red & infra-red light is also very healing as it stimulates the enzyme cytochrome C inside of the mitochondria of every cell. I will likely write a separate article or post a video about this as red & infra-red light can be a game-changer for healing all sorts of diseases including the supposedl “incurable”.
• Avoid stimulating music or films that get you thinking about subjects you don’t like before bed for obvious reasons
• If you are on any medications look into what side effects they have and see if you can slowly come off them with the advice of an experienced practitioner. If your doctor is not very helpful, you don’t have to stay with him/her. Medications can have such wide ranging effects that are detrimental not only to sleep but healthy in general, even if they appear to help with certain symptoms.

Some other things to try

• Some people don’t like too much outside light in the room whilst sleeping so having good curtains to block light might help.
• For some, having a heavy-weight blanket helps, as it helps in feeling and connecting with with the body.
• The direction your bed faces effects the flow of energy through your system – this is actually scientifically validated! If your feet face east and your head west then the flow of energy on the planet from east to west means that more energy flows to the head and stops you from restful sleep. Likewise if your feet are south and your head north, it is like trying to force two positive ends of a magnet together and it causes a lot of strain to the body due to repulsion. So the optimum sleeping position is having your head anywhere between true East and magnetic south. Obviously if you have a lot of electrical appliances around you then this can alter the sleeping position too. Old Eastern mystics would say have your head to the south for longevity and to the east for wisdom!
• Many beds are not electrically grounded, meaning that radiation coming to your home and from your own appliances get trapped and even amplified by the metal springs in your bed and/or mattress. So you can attach a grounding cable to combat this or buy a bed that does not contain metal or have more of a futon style bed. Getting advice from someone who knows a lot about grounding is advisable here to make sure your not grounding to something that may be harmful. i.e. be careful what you are grounding to!

  

• For some changing the clothes you wear or blankets can have a big impact.
• Take care with any toxins that may be in the bed materials too. Always wash new clothes and linen thoroughly before using them and aim to buy organic/toxin free materials.
• Similar to this, when was the last time you washed your bed linen? What are you washing them with that you might not get on with? How old is your duvet and mattress? You may have a lot of dust mites and dust particles that irritate your skin and/or that you are breathing in.
• Keep an eye out for other toxins in the room you are sleeping in. What paint is on the walls, especially if you live in and old home or in a country where certain chemicals are allowed in the paints? Lead and arsenic are commonly found in paints.
• Look out for mold in your room, especially black mold as that is very detrimental to health and can effect sleep. Pay attention to whatever chemicals may be in products that remove mold too! There are lots of potential sources of toxins so keep and eye out for them.
• Some bianaural beats can help stimulate the right chemicals to allow sleep. There are a lot of different frequencies you can try all over the internet.
• Do you have any bodily pains/aches, hormonal issues etc that could highlight a health condition that may be stopping you from sleeping? If you’re not sure, get checked out by a health professional. Excess nerve stimulation coming from an irritated body part and/or imbalanced signalling molecules such as hormones, can greatly impact the brain and sleeping mechanisms.

Spiritual & energetic things to consider

• If you are energetically aware, are there ghosts, ley lines or other geomagnetic lines going through your room?

  

• What was the land you house built on used for in the past?
• What sorts of things are in your neighbours homes and how they could affect you?
• Getting a land-healer in to help can be useful. It may be that it is easier to move home of course.

The mind…

Overthinking is a common reason for not sleeping. Some of the suggestions above can help with thinking in different ways but you may need to approach things from a different angle too due to the mental, emotional and energetic causes that may be happening.

These are things best dealt with through different forms of therapy such as psychotherapy. Energy healing can often help a lot, however it is often important too to talk  over certain subjects to better allow things to release.

Reasons can by wide-ranging such as a traumatic event that suddenly woke you up. Being told scary stories or watching films as a child that made a lasting belief. Past life issues. Violent family members. Troublesome births. etc etc

Often these things happen before your earliest memory or in another life so that it is hard to pin-point why you cannot sleep. The key thing here is that if it’s more of a mental, emotional or spiritual cause, to pick a modality that suits you. It can take time working through these energies/causes much like dietry changes often take time to see effects. So finding someone who you feel comfortable with helping you through this process is important.

Some people find it easier to sleep as a way of escaping the uncomfortableness they experience in this world, whilst others keep themselves up due to focusing on the issues. Learning to let go is certainly a way of helping either way, so that you can be comfortable with this reality.

These are by no means the only things that can effect sleeping issues. I have given more attention to the practical things in this blog. That way, if you do come to me or another practitioner like a psychotherapist or naturopath, you are already armed with a number of ideas that can help you and make their advice and techniques more effective.

I hope that helps as many of you as possible have a better sleep.

Grant