Last week I started a brand new series of emails meant to guide you detect the early signs and prevent the installation of different diseases. Although many things have changed since the beginning of traditional medicine (and thanks to our modern peers we can deliberately alter the expression of the DNA), the human body is still functioning based on the way it was built. This means that there are some things that we have yet to impact on a large scale, and maybe it’s for the better.
One of these things is the biorhythm. It ensures that every system and organ recovers and heals itself at maximum every night, to function at its best the next day.
Based on century-long evidence, the Traditional Chinese Medicine has associated difficulty to fall asleep during certain hours or the tendency to wake up in the same interval with certain impairments. They can have both physical and emotional causes, so here is what they mean:
1. Between 9 PM – 11 PM
This is the time where blood vessels are most active. The difficulty falling asleep during these hours usually point out to problems associated with the metabolism, the immunity or a hormonal imbalance.
As emotional cause, stress and anxiety can hinder you from proper sleep. If you know there are some things that are always in the back of your mind, let them go before going to bed. The only way you can ever resolve them is by getting enough rest, which allows you to think more clearly and makes you able to think of the better solutions. Don’t let anything interfere with your resting time – consider it as a reward that will also help you face your problems better.
2. Between 11 PM – 1 AM
In this interval, the gallbladder is enabled for healing. This organ is responsible for breaking down the fats that you had been consuming through the day. At a first glance, you need to improve your diet, add more healthy fats (such as avocado, nuts, olives, fatty fish) and cut low the consumption of foods which have animal origins (dairy products, eggs, and meat).
From the emotional point of view, not being able to sleep at this time reveals a predisposition towards judging yourself or others. Not accepting certain situations or failing to forgive yourself or those around you can keep you up at night.
Remember that we are all here to learn, but each of us has different lessons to be taught and different experience. Let go of the resentment, and enjoy more of what you like about those people (especially if it’s yourself you’re being hard on).
3. Between 1 AM – 3 AM
During these two hours, the liver steals the show. Although it can’t be compared to the brain or the heart, it could easily be classified as the third most important organ in your body. It is responsible for flushing out the toxins and keeping yourself in tip-top shape. If it’s got too many residues to deal with, you’re likely to wake up during 1 AM and 3 AM. Avoid this by re-thinking your diet and also eliminating the alcohol.
On the second side of the coin, anger, frustration and guilt can also be responsible for your insomniac episodes. Dig in the corners of your mind and try to identify if there is any person or situation towards which you might be angry, and why. Once you’ve found the answer to these questions, you’ll know for sure what is the right thing to do to annihilate the tension.
4. Between 3 AM – 5 AM
If you can’t sleep properly during these hours, it’s the respiratory system that’s responsible for it. A powerful hint there is something wrong is coughing after waking up.
This can mean that you need to breathe healthier air, cut down or completely cut out the cigarettes, but also that you might be depressed.
Lungs are associated with sadness and grief, therefore try to distinguish if there’s something that has recently happened and that eats away at your mind.
5. Between 5 AM – 7 AM
Inadvertently waking up at these hours means that there is trouble with the cleansing and the large intestine. If you know fiber is missing from your diet, eat more vegetables and fruits, but if your fiber intake is just right, then add more water (so that you don’t get constipated).
As emotional causes, this period is related to feeling stuck or being unhappy due to the lack of growth in personal life. Check whether the physical or the emotional side is responsible for your troubled sleep, and work on it.
These signs have rarely showed to fail and if you want them to work for you, answer yourself as honest as possible when detecting the negative feelings or when thinking of the unhealthy habits you have. You’re the only one you need to answer to, anyway, so there’s no pressure or something to lose. But there is something to gain – and that’s health.
As you may have though, the clock doesn’t stop here, and there are other organs and systems that need to recover. You’ll learn more about them in the following articles.