Healing In Your Sleep

October 8th, 2017

By Nick Polizzi

Guest writer for Wake Up World

Ready for something personal? Gulp! Here we go.

A few months ago, I began to hit a serious dip in my energy levels. Each day, I would wake up feeling like I had been beaten up in my sleep, rolling out of bed with pain in my muscles and zero energy. Walking up the stairs felt like a herculean effort — and I’m in good physical shape. This wasn’t like me. We try to do everything we can in our house to stay healthy. Eat right, exercise, meditate, work with traditional healing practices, ceremonies — you name it. After all, this is what I do for a living!

This “new” me felt off, and I was a little worried. As days passed, I began to wonder if something was really wrong. So I called my friend, Dr. Williams, and asked him to do a full blood panel on me and see if any of my levels were out of whack. When everything came back normal, we did a recorded call where he asked me a seemingly obvious question: “Nick, how much sleep are you getting?”

The answer escaped me.

“I don’t know — I’ve been really busy lately, so my sleep is a little off. Maybe six hours?”

“Nick, there’s your answer. When are you going to bed in the evening?”

“Midnight.”

“Nick, six hours of sleep is too low for you, even if your head hits the pillow at the optimal hour of night — which is generally by 10 p.m. at the latest. But six hours, starting at midnight on a continual basis — especially while raising a young family that wakes at the crack of dawn — is a recipe for disaster.”

Duh. How could I have missed this? Once an expert sleeper, I had derailed myself somewhere along the line, and even worse, the lack of sleep had helped me forget that sleep was even that important. Whoa!

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