Buteyko Solution for Insomnia
The Buteyko method has been proven in two clinical trials to reduce the automatic breathing pattern by an average 31%
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Like breathing, sleep is usually taken totally for granted until you have a problem with it. Then it becomes of huge interest, and great lengths are often taken to restore sound, restful sleep.
Hyperventilation is strongly linked to poor sleep, with the following scenario typically occurring:
Sleeping badly often causes you to be so exhausted that the next night you fall asleep immediately, only to wake three or four hours later with a dry mouth and needing to go to the bathroom. If you have asthma, then you probably also need a puff of your reliever.
Now you are restless, not really asleep, yet not awake either, and deep sleep only comes again when it is close to the time to get up. Consequently in the morning you feel tired and perhaps even worse than when you went to bed. If this isn’t bad enough, you might also wake up with a dry, foul tasting mouth, bad breath and a blocked nose.
The tossing and turning you experience during the night can give you a bad hair day every morning, bags under your eyes, and the blankets all over the floor.
‘I NEVER get enough sleep!’ is the common complaint, while you cough or blow your nose through half a box of tissues.
There are many problems a person can have with sleep, but the most common are insomnia, snoring, sleep apnoea, restless leg syndrome, excessive thirst or urination, and nightmares. In order to solve a sleep problem, it is best to first understand it.
Take a look at each section to find out how and why these problems occur, and what you can do to correct the problem.
Treatments for insomnia
The treatments for insomnia range from things to be swallowed, lay on, listened to, and a myriad of other things,
Continue readingInsomnia and hyperventilation
Hyperventilation affects the whole body, and as part of this, it agitates the nervous system. This can result in the
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Mental health Anecdotally people say that they cannot function as well mentally when they are tired as when they are
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It would seem that the belief that you should be asleep when you are awake, or the desire to fall
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Insomnia is said to be the symptom of something wrong in your life, rather than a particular disease or condition.
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Insomnia is categorised in three ways: transient, short-term and chronic. Transient insomnia Transient insomnia only lasts for a few days,
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Not being able to fall asleep or stay asleep when we want to can create such frustration that the stress
Continue readingButeyko solution to sleep apnoea
When the Buteyko theory is applied to breathing, there seems no reason why almost everyone cannot breathe quietly and regularly
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Surgery The earliest treatments for obstructive sleep apnoea were mostly surgical, and there are still many people today who have
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