A lot of people feel “tired”, and blame it on getting not
enough sleep, or other external factors. Basically, the
fact that they’re tired is always “out of control.” What
they don’t know is that there’s a reason for feeling
“tired”, and that there’s a simple method to change “tired”
to “energized” in a heartbeat….
Most of us feel tired during one of the four: 1) After
waking up in the morning. 2) After intense physical
activity, or long hours of work. 3) After sitting in one
place for a long period of time. 4) During the evening, or
in the late evening hours.
What do all four of those have in common? There’s one very
common process that happens in our bodies in all four
cases. During all of these we all experience very
similar”symptoms” of tiredness. These include yawning,
rubbing our eyes, feeling sllooowww, and having the urge to
just get into bed and sleep.
Why Do We Get These “symptoms?” Our bodies have a natural
temperature rhythm. Our body temperature rises when we are
awake, and promotes feelings of alertness. Our body
temperature also falls when we’re sleeping, and promotes
feelings of drowsiness, and a desire to sleep.
The natural DROP of body temperature in our bodies is a CUE
for our body to produce feelings of tiredness, drowsiness,
and the strong urge to sleep. I call this the “natural
sleep response”. When we’re exercising, or putting
excessive physical demand on our body, our body temperature
RISES rapidly, however when you END the physical activity,
there is a RAPID body temperature DROP until your body
temperature regulates sometime after. It’s during this DROP
that most of us think there’s no other way out but to
sleep, and we usually jump into bed and do just that.
The feeling of the body temperature drop after long hours
of work is usually mistaken by us as a deep need for sleep.
In reality, we don’t need to sleep, we just need to “cool
down”. Allow me to give you a personal example:
As a kid I used to work at a FULL SERVE gas station for 8-9
hours in a row. This meant I had to be on my feet running
around pumping gas for 8-9 hours with one 10 minute break.
It was hell! Even when I had the early morning shift I
would come home and feel TOTALLY DRAINED and TIRED, I
usually fell asleep and slept till the evening.
However, as I began learning the inner science of our sleep
system and the inner sleep clock, I tried a little
experiment one day. Instead of going to sleep I came home
and played fetch with my dog out in the yard for about 45
minutes instead. To my surprise, after just a few minutes
of a little light activity (throwing a plastic chewed up
Frisbee across the backyard), the feeling of tiredness
faded and I was able to stay awake and alert WAY into the
early morning hours.
How did this work?
I simply allowed my body temperature some time to return
back to the normal pattern it proceeds. I gave it time to
“come down.” When it returned back to normal, I didn’t feel
tired and the intense pressure to sleep faded. This same
body temperature drop happens after you sit in one place
for a long time. Listen, you could take a person who is
robust, athletic, and naturally energetic, but if you put
them in front of a TV for 3 hours, THEY WILL GET TIRED!
This is simply because our body temperature drops when
we’re NOT MOVING.
That’s why the biggest antidote to feeling tired is
exercise and movement, NOT SLEEP.
During the morning our body temperature is low too, which
creates feelings of drowsiness and tiredness, however, most
of us chose to mask this feeling by consuming large amounts
of caffeine. The other main temperature drops happen in the
afternoon, and in the mid-evening.
In the Powerful Sleep system I describe the EXACT methods
to gain a full understanding of your body temperature
rhythm, so you can create a quick RISE of body temperature
in the morning, and delay the body temperature drop in the
evening. This allows you to stay awake and ALERT longer,
have more energy and MORE TIME (time is a precious
commodity!)
Kacper Postawski is an innovative sleep science researcher
and the creator of the “Powerful Sleep - Secrets of the
Inner Sleep Clock” system on
http://www.curing-insomnia.com/powerfulsleep.php He can
show you how to reduce your sleep by up to 3 hours, create
more time, and an abundance of energy in your body by
sleeping LESS! Not more. He dispels the “8 hour sleep
myth”, tells you what most people never realize about
sleep, and what the drug companies DONT WANT YOU to know.
Go to http://www.curing-insomnia.com/powerfulsleep.php to
find out more about Powerful Sleep.