The Best Beverages To Drink For Amazing Sleep Every Night

The Best Beverages To Drink For Amazing Sleep Every Night

By  Editor Wellnesscom.info May 1, 2017

Have you ever noticed that certain liquids make you feel energized while others cause you to feel sleepy? Well, that’s because the drinks you consume really do affect your level of alertness and the quality of your sleep.


As a Ph.D. diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, I’ve devoted 35 years to the study of human sleep and clinical sleep disorders. Here are the drinks I recommend avoiding for better shut-eye—and the beverages that will help boost your sleep:

The best drinks to boost your sleep:

Cherry juice in the evening may help you fall asleep faster. Night workers may also benefit from drinking tart cherry juice in the morning to help them sleep.


Chamomile tea and passionfruit tea with a little honey, 90 minutes before bedtime, may make your sleep more restful.


Milk, 90 minutes before sleep, may also help you fall asleep (if you’re not lactose intolerant). Whether you warm it up or not is a personal preference—it has no effect on milk’s sleep-inducing properties, which are tied to the essential amino acid L-tryptophan.


Water is important to drink throughout the day for optimal health. However, drinking water right up until bedtime will stimulate your kidneys and you’re likely to wake up multiple times in the first few hours of sleep.

The drinks that will rob your sleep:

Alcohol            

Of course, the initial effect of alcohol is typically a more relaxed and sleepy state. But alcohol near bedtime is actually disruptive to sleep. Many people will drink alcohol in the evening to relax after a stressful day at work and find themselves drifting off to sleep in a chair while watching TV. Depending on how long they sleep in the early evening, they can experience a lot of difficulty returning to sleep when they finally decide to go to bed for the night. Evening napping disrupts your internal clock’s timing of the main sleep period later in the night.


Some people specifically use alcohol as a sedative. And yes, they fall asleep fast. But once the alcohol has been metabolized—maybe three to four hours into sleep—they abruptly awaken and find it difficult to return to sleep. If they do manage to get back to sleep, the remainder of the night is typically characterized by fitful sleep with frequent awakenings and intense dreaming. The sleeper wakes up groggy, tired, and unrefreshed despite having been in bed for a full seven to eight hours.
Nighttime alcohol can also induce snoring in a sleeper who does not normally snore and increases the risk of obstructive sleep apnea.

Coffee                  

Caffeinated coffee and soda are widely used for their ability to promote alertness and energy level. Unfortunately, the stimulant drug effect of caffeine is short-lived, and when it wears off in four hours, most people experience a fatigue or sleepiness rebound, which encourages only more caffeine to re-energize.


And so the cycle goes: larger and larger amounts of caffeinated coffee at three- to four-hour intervals throughout the day. The problem is that the stimulant effect of caffeine also increases your heart and respiratory rates, making you feel anxious and jittery right up to bedtime.


Heavy daily caffeine consumption and caffeinated drinks close to bedtime are very disruptive to falling and staying asleep in most people. Afternoon and nighttime caffeine will also aggravate any restless-leg symptoms you may have. Restless legs are uncomfortable creeping, crawling sensations in your calf muscles when you are sitting or lying still that force you to keep moving your legs. These are the folks who are constantly moving their legs and shifting their positions around during meetings, movies, or plays. Restless-leg symptoms tend to increase over the day and are particularly severe during the evening and at bedtime. If you have restless legs, consider eliminating caffeinated beverages altogether or at least after lunchtime.


How to cut down on caffeine: Switch to beverages that are half-caffeinated and half-decaffeinated. Confine your caffeine consumption to mornings up through lunchtime, with only decaffeinated beverages later in the day. Aim for a daily target of 10 to 12 ounces of caffeinated coffee or tea by the end of two weeks.

The bottom line:

When it comes to getting your best sleep, keep in mind that what you drink is just as important as when you drink it. Stop all caffeinated beverages after 2 p.m., and avoid alcohol before bedtime. Drinking tart cherry juice or chamomile or passionfruit tea with a little honey or milk 90 minutes ahead of bedtime may help you relax and fall asleep faster. Finally, stop drinking fluids one hour ahead of your bedtime—you’ll minimize sleep disruptions in the first few hours, when your sleep is typically deepest and most restorative.


Source: mindbodygreen

Nightlighters — Lighting the Darkness for the Light by Jennifer Hoffman

Nightlighters — Lighting the Darkness for the Light

by Jennifer Hoffman

 Nov 14, 2016 | 2016, action, ascension, awareness, being powerful, blog, Evolution, Healing, Life Mastery, November, Spiritual Path

Have you had nights with only a few hours of sleep lately? Do you wake up one or more times and can’t go back to sleep for hours? Or do you get no sleep at all on some nights, no matter how tired you are? We’re doing important energy work at night through a process I call ‘nightlighting’, using the more open energy potential of the night, when most people are asleep, to bring in more high frequency and expanded energy and ground it in the earth’s grid. Nightlighting is important work, no matter how uncomfortable it is for us now.


As Nightlighters, we are points of light in the darkness and our energetic signature is more visible because it is not obstructed by the busy-ness of our day, other people, or activities. This means it’s easier for our energy to be at its highest point so we become a magnet for that level of energy. And because we are awake, we are both receiving and grounding energy at the same time.  Like the small lights we light at bedtime to help us find our way in the dark, we are also that light source for souls that are crossing over, those who need to find a light to guide them home, as well as a light beacon for the energy that needs a container to be grounded.


As Nightlighters we shine our lights in the darkest hours, when most people are asleep, and acting as portals for energy downloads when there is less energetic interference (because most people are asleep). It may be annoying and it won’t last forever, but as a Nightlighter you are serving a powerful purpose for the world, for humanity, and for the light. At night when most people around you are sleeping, their conscious mind is shut down and they are more open to receiving energy too. And without the distraction of all of the active energy during the day, we can bring in bigger downloads, higher frequencies, and process more energy. When that is needed, we can’t sleep and are awake at night, sometimes all night. The days of a full night’s sleep will return but our light is needed at night, and we are doing powerful work now.


Here are some suggestions to help you facilitate this process.


Doing active breathing and breath work, where you are conscious of each breath in and out, and as you are breathing, be aware that you are connecting with Source and the light. Counting your breaths will help you stay focused on the work you are doing and maintain a balanced connection.


Be aware of the energy levels you are in the process of receiving. Set an intention to be at your highest frequency and receive energy at the highest frequency you are capable of. As you receive the energy, expand it and send it out to the world and to humanity so you ground the energy in the earth’s grid.


Try to not worry about losing sleep or how tired you are going to be the next day. You can set an intention to awaken refreshed and energized (although you may not be). If it gets to be too much and too tiring, remind your guides that you need to sleep and to keep the energy work short.


Like many of you, I have had more sleepless nights in the past few months than I can ever remember having before. I miss the days when I could lie down and fall right to sleep. Now, I am lucky if I’m asleep by 3AM or if I do fall asleep, I awaken suddenly after only 2 hours and I’m awake for several hours. I know that I’m doing a lot of energy work at that time, and so are you.


We’re the nightlights for the energy that is pouring into the earth’s grids now so while you’re awake in the night’s wee hours remember you are a container for the energy that is coming in, receiving it and grounding it in the earth’s grids. So be a portal for the light, bringing in the highest frequencies you can, and know that you are doing the work of the 5D integration into 3D that you came here to do. And if it helps, think of yourself as a Nightlighter, a spark of light in the darkness, lighting the way for the new earth.


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