Proper Sleep Phases - Releiving the Stress Effect

Relieving the stress effect a person experiences daily is achieved by a simple but often uncontrollable process of relaxing the body. Recent research shows that short naps [relaxing the body] also pay off in balancing the proper sleep phases. So in essence, when you feel sleepy, taking a nap is ok. Sleep times vary for humans according to many habits and ages. The human body can function normally on 8-9 hours sleep per rotation of the sun. The efficiency of stress control depends on the volume of energy used, and the volume of energy expelled, along with metabolic factors.

The energy problems begin with the build up of energy momentum beginning within a couple of hours after rising, and carrying through with no body/mind break, sometimes for up to 16 hours straight. When the beta wave energy builds up, so does the heat in the body. Even if you have eaten before starting your day, our light perception and movements use up that energy a few hours later, about 5-7 hours into the cycle or sometimes much less.

Here is our first opportunity to balance our day. Instead of hitting the burger bar for lunch like most seem opt to do, hit the couch for 45 minutes to an hour, eat a health bar, drink two 10 ounces of 7.5 pH water, and revitalize your afternoon shift. Then, later eat another small meal and continue on with the rest of your day as needed. Studies seem to be showing us that additional balance in sleeping habits help us tremendously. The balancing of food consumption along with water would attribute these refined activities.

*These suggestions are only to assist sleeping monitors who evaluate cycles and methods to overview the balancing ability and control of stress related to patterns.

1. Sleep 6-7 hours minimum each day while the sun is hidden by the earth. If you cannot sleep at this time, you will not have as normal of a cycle because light affects your perception and many other physical aspects of your life. If the sun rises at 6:00 AM, you should also rise no later than 1-2 hours after sunrise, but also getting up at or before sunrise will require a earlier mid day break, and also a sleep start phase of no less that 6 hours before. These estimates run closely to the perception of realizing when stress is present or not.

2. Find a way to set your [rest, relax, nap] schedule into your day. It may be when you arrive home, and your children could join you. It could be earlier in the day, so you could awake earlier each day to balance your awake/asleep cycle. A suggestion for people who are not as tired would be to use this time for meditation.

3. Sleep in a dark room. Often because of lack of knowledge, we attempt to live in our cycles without knowing why an abnormal condition exists. It simply could be the room is too light, and this will cause you to awake easier. Our eye lids do not keep out all the light coming in, only a percentage is stopped. It is the dark that you need most, and the darker the better. Humans often awake when the light creeps in between the blinds, so in the perception of this pattern, one must realize the power in it.

So you might ask now, does stress effect the immune system? Of course it does! Stress is the inability to control the energy build up which may be brought on by mental activities alone, and the fact that the body is not relaxed often enough in relation to this mental activity. Stress is also a sort of backfeed of not paying attention to what you eat or how much, what you drink or how much, and your personal space exposure factor as so often visibly noticed. All these elements we partake of and our interactions with all forms of them, correlated to the time cycle and hormone secretion correctly, equals the line of stress on the graph.

Often, once stress if felt, the mental decision making is confused and doesn't realize they are now sleeping less, which is added to the problem they originally created. People often assume because they are not sleeping well, they have stress. It is better to look at the other way around. People have mental problems that have created stress, now they have additional problems to enhance the unbalance. So now we ask the question, does stress effect your overall health? It would have to! Stress can even be forced upon others, and then you have all kinds of mental unbalance in the mind about the perception of one's existence full of paramoralisms that add to confusion which in turn causes the user to perform inappropriately to the balance.

You [yourself] may not be the reason for your stress except for the fact, you may allow it to happen to you. Once anxiety has a grip in your mind, you will create new habits such as worrying about every single second of time. If you persist in the fast and furious fashionism world, stress effects body metabolism in many ways. Stress is about energy use, and your reactions to it.

We attempt to control stress in our bodies based on our reactions to our environment, and our personal decision making power, or volition. The causes of stress today have infinite value for we live in a world that seems normal but when one looks deeper, a whole new world appears, as often said.

This brings us back to sleep and its power to rejuvenate the body and remove stress like it was killing a fly. A good nights sleep is super power. When we wake up refreshed, where has the stress gone? Simply, we relaxed at a deeper state, and a special state still not understood. When we must sleep every day of our life, a good question to ask would be, what do dreams mean in the bigger scale of objective thinking?

No one can prove what dreams mean even today, but we study them intently. We should speculate based on logic. First, let takes stress and plug it into the dream research scenario.

In dream research, there are frequencies generated by the body called beta, alpha, theta, and delta waves. Alpha is a non-standard awake frequency, and Theta is a standard asleep frequency. Beta is completely awake as standard, and Delta is completely asleep as non-standard. Delta is never maintained, as alpha and theta emerge through them at random. Alpha is never maintained, as beta and theta emerge through them at random in all states of perception.

Theta and Alpha are the strangest states of frequencies. Any time theta frequency is achieved coming from beta, sleep is achieved. Any time alpha waves are achieved coming from delta, lucid dreams, and REM are achieved.

These are frequencies our energy brain waves have been recorded at. In the making of stress, which just happens to be closely associated with motion and light, our entity attempts to control the energy transformations. These transformations must continue while we are sleeping otherwise there would be no use for them. Currently being studied is the Rapid Eye Movement [REM] sleep, which is a deeper sleep state where dreams are commonly present.

Even in recent research, two types of REM sleep have been detected, one for random noise in the brain at a low frequency, and one high frequency of less than one second. This was observed in the premature in the Netherlands. We must ask now, how many frequencies are there and what do they match to? In order to answer this we must overview all the waves recorded.

First, understand that when we are sleeping, we are not asleep per se. Our bodies and minds are very busy, as dreams remembered seem to be evidence of this activity along with the recorded frequencies. The awake frequencies consist of beta and alpha, of which beta is recorded as the most active state, of which is desynchronous, as beta waves represent the chaotic nature of our interactive world. These waves are a mix in the maze, and have little synchronization related to each other. The other awake state is more relaxed and recorded as alpha waves, which is closely associated with meditation, and being in a relaxed state.

So in your awake state, you have a alpha sync state, and a beta desync state and these are measured by [EEG] or an electroencephalogram device, as gross brain wave activity. There is also the measurement and reaction to this activity recorded physically, as in muscle tone, with an [EMG] or an electromyogram device. And lastly, what some call the measurement of the third eye movement, which is actually both eyes reacting in sync, and recorded with an [EOG] or electro-oculogram device. These devices for measuring are not machines, for the spirit dimension in human perception is the only machine in the entire universe.

Alpha waves have a secret barrier inside them that allows us to convert them down in frequency to a theta wave level, which is the beginning of sleep. The difference between these two states is extremely subtle, and it is amazing in the fact they seem so easily activated. Theta wave sleep, as stage 1 sleep seems to hold its wave pattern once accomplished from alpha waves, but the differences are so subtle, why have we not determined the power in this transformation?

As stage 1 begins, stage 2 just mysteriously begins, and recorded with the devices in two ways. Stage 2 phenomenon cannot be explained, but just periodically every few minutes or so, recordable sudden increases in frequency called [sleep spindles] and sudden increases in amplitude called [K complexes] are recorded. These occurrences are random, and stage 3 and 4 begin randomly as delta sleep, or deep sleep, where the combination of waves recorded are divided by the amount of recordable delta waves. Stage 4 is a majority of delta wave activity, where one is not awaken easily as in stage 1 or 2.

Mixed in with all this recorded data, is the random REM measured by the EOG device as a sudden decrease in muscle tone and the body becomes paralyzed in this state. Enough evidence now exists to associate REM activity as being closely connected to dreams, again, only recordable evidence from subjective participants who state when awakened during REM sleep, have vivid recollections of dreams been more profound than normally accounted for.

Movement through the sleep stages begins with alpha waves and returns to them in normal functions, to open the beta file of light. When alpha is not opening the awake file or frequency, it is REM. This perfect alpha state seems to hold the key in controlling all the states of sleep and awake. It is also the wave that destroys stress initially, or when stress is confirmed and alpha applied, or when not evident, and the user is brought back to alpha involuntarily at some point in time during a earth cycle or spin.

Whether one is experiencing REM sleep or not, can only be recorded by someone other than thyself, so REM sleep seems common, but no studies have been done to discover how often a population experiences REM and why, or only experienced by people during certain stages of their life, for instance, as no tests have been done, other than small random groups of people who seem to function normally in society, or may have stress.

Another important factor to consider when evaluating sleep states, and the possible connection between REM and stress, is the distribution of serotonin and melatonin in the body. Studies back in 1997 showed that the distribution of serotonin inhibits REM in animal testing. I wonder how important this study turned out to be?
[ Reference: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/17/19/7541 ]

Melatonin is dispersed into the body while we sleep by darkness alone. This is why it is so important to sleep in a dark room. How does melatonin work in the body when we sleep as versus serotonin?

Melatonin has three forms naturally synthesized in certain areas the body, the endocrine hormone produced by the pineal gland, and the retina, along with the GI track [digestive muscles] paracrine hormones. The hypothalamus in the brain receives info from the retina and works with the pineal gland to regulate melatonin distribution in accordance with light and dark perception.

Our production of melatonin correlates mostly to our existence in light or dark, and the activity level associated with each one. Melatonin is secreted by the pineal gland at a peak level during the sleep cycle near the balanced center of the event. People who remain awake during dark cycles seem to experience backfeed from higher frequency activity during dark cycles.
[ Reference: Hormones and Night Work ]

Melatonin is also produced and known for anti-oxidant properties, or functions that balance the body life span and even is believed to interact with the immune system, which makes sense, because the immune system is all about balance.

The nervous system on the other hand, gives us serotonin, [5-hydroxytryptamine] and 90% is produced and distributed by the digestive muscles. Serotonin has mitogen [cell division] properties, and is thought to regulate many emotional states, such as mood, sex or desire, even appetite. The receptors for this hormone are quite complex in many families in and around the brain and the rest of the body. It seems this hormone would likely interact with the immune system as well.

To cite past research on the relationship between serotonin, melatonin, and the pineal gland, Russ McClay published correlations back in 1976 entitled, "The Pineal Gland, LSD, and Serotonin". Russ explains this intriguing relationship:

The interesting thing about serotonin is its change over to melatonin which occurs chemically in the pineal gland. [Now known to receive help from the hypothalamus] The pineal gland is the only area where this is done. This has direct significance to what happens to the larval stages of most amphibians. It is known as blanching. Larval forms of amphibians undergo a marked blanching when maintained for a time in darkness. A similar response is displayed by many fishes. It is likely that blanching is due, in some measure, to a degree of decrease in MHS (a hormone) release in darkness, but for the most part it is believed that the principle effect results from the release of melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) from the pineal. [...]

Of great interest is the remarkable fact that relatively large amounts are found in the lateral eyes. The lateral eyes as well as the pineals contain all the substrates and enzymes essential for the synthesis of melatonin.

Now we begin to see the importance of the endocrine pea size gland in our brains, and its prevalence to dark and light balance, and the distribution of these hormones in relation to asleep, awake, and what we perceive as stress.

In our ability to operate this amazing array of power, there comes one more twist into the fire called "Lucid Dreaming". This where the individual perceives a dream as real, or reality as a dream, as recorded mostly during a REM sleep interruption. [ Reference: Psychophysiology of Lucid Dreaming ]

Once we add lucid dreaming into this picture, the world of new age fundamentalism has overlaid massively into the system which is confusing the pictogram, or pineal power. This is more a manipulation of frequencies in order to achieve certain states of self-service.

Studies seem to show that REM sleep is systemically changing EEG amplitude waves over successive periods of REM sleep. [Reference: EEG Amplitude Across REM ] To correlate some of this research, we must consider the fact that to attain REM sleep, one must pass from beta, to alpha, and to theta, of which has brought the frequency down to around 7 Hz where delta waves now [have the option] to begin, and REM sleep also [has the option] to begin, which brings the frequency back up [toward alpha range], as recorded, but you have not awakened yet.

What's strange about this ability is the fact that you are mentally capable of working awake and asleep most creatively from 8 Hz up to 10 or 12 Hz, while in both an awake state and a sleep state. Only beta waves above 12 -14 Hz and delta waves below 5 Hz are states where awake and asleep are verified as different extreme wave lengths signifying that matched state.

The middle of these frequencies, or the fulcrum between them, is the most active state of mind whether awake or not. This may be why so many people have so many health problems today. They get wired up to 30 Hz and expect to hit 4 Hz that night, when there may be no way. So in their attempt to settle down, there is more activity in the middle ranges while sleeping, then they had during the day, and because that is a form of balance, that is to say, no matter what you think you can do at high levels of beta or low levels of delta, you must venture into alpha to help control and balance the time in each one.

In order to balance the sleep, one needs more low frequency activity during the motion and light perception phases, other wise, the body will attempt to correct the problem by sending out electric transmitters [hormones] to transform the energy balance. The pineal gland transforms the signals to accommodate the need developed.

So to speculate, the entity that is stressed will still use melatonin at night, possibly engaging frequency correction in the form of REM, and a possible way to balance the feedback from stress. The entity that is not stressed, will utilize serotonin more to enhance drive to the light and motion, in turn allowing melatonin to work properly. It seems the pineal gland is only attempting to balance the pictogram we perceive and the balance of our sun cycle.

Those who have nightmares usually are experiencing higher frequencies during their day time from the stress. Not everyone who is stressed however is verified as having REM sleep, and only a small portion of the society is estimated to experience REM sleep. It seems however, there is evidence to suggest that REM sleep is closely associated to dreaming, or a purer recorded state of dreaming.

Lucid dreaming as stated, is that state between dreaming and reality, this would also be right about where alpha waves meet delta waves. We may find that spending more time learning how to remain between 8 and 14 Hz with a focus on controlling the waves as they reach 7.5, will allow us to finally open a window to understanding our dreams. This is similar to meditation, and this practice works in the dark, so alpha is easier achieved. What the mind does next is become active in different ways raising the frequency back up beyond the sleep state. In the meditative state, you begin to wonder, or discern what is real and what you are imagining per se, exactly correlated to lucid dreaming experiences. The connection here should be washed out and you have to admit that it is imaginatively intriguing.

Stress is no match for dreams, for dreams unwind them like unwinding a clock spring in the soul. Our dreams may be a form of balance from the very stress we deal with while processing light and motion perception. The motion is a wonderful gift and sets with the heart in our soul, and the light is the knowledge coming in, for if you woke up in pitch black, and could not feel or sense anything, where does the knowledge come from? At this point, the entity would have to provide all of the knowledge for the perception as imagination.

The correlations between light and dark now seem clearer, and closer to alpha, and that special time when the sun rises and sets to divide the day in your mind. In our endeavor, we must regain this knowledge of balance.