A man needs good
and enough sleep for a pretty health. Sleep is as essential to live as food to
a person. Sleep is necessary for mind as well as for body. Lack of sleep
can spoil our health. Necessity of sleep varies from person to person
even in the same circumstances. More sleep is required to a person who
does the physical work in comparison to one who does mental work. They should
sleep for eight hours daily.
Natural
Time of Sleep:
· We should sleep at least for six hours daily. As
per nature`s discipline a person should go to sleep between nine to ten o`clock
in the night, because sleep before mid-night is better and fit for health in
comparison of after mid-night sleep. There should be a gap of at least 3
hours between dinner and sleep time. Good sleep is not possible if our
stomach is full of food at the time of sleep, and no freshness after awakening
in the morning. Our diet should be almost digested before we go to bed.
Form
of Bed – Hard or Soft:
Our sleeping bed
should be hard in form of a flat wooden board or on the floor. The bedding
should not be in the form of foam or cotton Soft mattress. The sleep
cannot be good and healthy on this type of soft mattresses.
Ideal
Bedroom:
Our bedrooms should
be airy and all the doors and windows opened at sleeping time, so that
oxygenated air may enter in the room. Sleep in the closed room will not be very
good and not of much benefit.
Sleeplessness
as a disease:
Sleeplessness or
insomnia is one of the most painful diseases of this civilized world. Today`s
modern man has to take the help of pills to sleep. The consumption of
pills is not good for health. Nature cures the damaged cells of our body
and make them fresh for the next day`s activities, during the time of sleep. So,
a healthy person has no problem of insomnia. There are two main causes of
insomnia –
(1)
Physiological and
(2) Mental
In physiological
causes includes pain- due to injury, headache, constipation or other
disease. Causes of low level of sleep in this civilized society are
unbalanced diet and over-eating. Mental causes include some problem or tension.
We should find the solution to the problem as soon as possible and should not
avo id for a long time.
Tactics
of Sleep:
Physical
tiredness is very helpful in bringing a good sleep. Persons who do mental work
sitting in the chairs should walk fast for an hour in the morning and in
evening after dinner. Walking should be as per capacity and should be increased
slowly. We have to revise our eating habits and should take balanced diet
containing protein including nuts, beans, peas, lentils, carbohydrates through;
honey, cane brown sugar, beet, dried fruits, cereals; wheat, maize, rye, oats,
barley, rice, etc.Vitamins and mineral salts through; fresh fruits, vegetables
and salads etc. Balanced diet comprised protein, carbohydrates and
mineral salts must be in the ratio of 1:1:3. This type of food does not
produce toxic substances and mucus in the digesting system and purify the
blood. Eating more food than body requirement should be
avoided. It is very useful for body and mind to be peaceful and satisfied
and generate deep sleep.
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