The symptom of a broken heart could be sleep insomnia. The common category of sleeping hours falls between 6 and 8 hours for adults. It is really a rough generalization on this issue. If your sleeping hours are less than the indicated normal, do not panic, because I have some good thoughts for you.
The amount of time for sleep is really like the amount of food different people need. The body size, metabolism, genetic features, living environment and excising habits, etc are all contributing factors that give different people the different scope of appropriate hours for resting and staying vibrant.
I would like to share my personal experience with you. Sometimes, 4 hours of sleep makes me much more energetic than 7 or 8 hours of sleeping time. I am much more sensible, happy, and function more efficiently. Why? They happen to be those days when I aced my moods and had a very good control of my state of mind and body when I gained a fine balance physically and spiritually. A broken heart cannot maintain inner peace, however.
The secret is: we do not need many hours to sleep well if we do not waste our daily energy on something we do not need. If our mind is not busy with the useless mode of spending our energies, we would not waste our energy on trying to fall asleep. Those redundant consciousnesses and desires clog up in our brain and force our brain to keep awake and strained, the root cause of insomnia. When our heart is broken, our energies will be scattered around helplessly. The first right action is to mend the broken heart and rebuild our energy system.
Moreover, our body is a very flexible bio-system. It can adjust its rhythm with the exterior environment smoothly. If you have ups and downs in emotions that lead to insomnia due to a broken heart, the first thing to heed on is to get a proper perspective, and do not worry about it! Try to understand that it is so natural to lose sleeping time during harsh and special moments. A living human suffers and grows through pains, laughs, and tears, like the weather in four seasons, wind, rain, sun, and rainbow. All the changes are natural. Be the Moon and Tide, just go with the flow and let go!
Here is a poem called "Test" that might make you heart go with flow!
The only thing you need to try your best to avoid the symptom of a broken heart is not to fall prey to obsession. Even we lose a lot of sleep during the time of struggles and hardships of a broken heart, our body will recover fully after sufficient transformations have been done. Our immune system and body function better than before because the temporary insomnia takes care of our emotional growth and spiritual growth as well as mind and body wellness. Like a building under construction, it looks broken, but it is actually in the process of completion.
We need give ourselves the very permission to suffer insomnia occasionally with an accepting mind. On the contrary, if we fear insomnia and suppress our need to cleanse our emotional system during personal growth to avoid insomnia, we are doomed. The more we suppress the natural true need, the more severe insomnia will attack us.
So even you have less than 6 hours of sleep, for example, only sleep 4 hours, or less than it, relax! As long as your heart is peaceful, you will be fine! The insomnia is just another word for an imbalance between your mind and body. It might well be the symptom of a broken heart. This type of insomnia serves as a head-up for your spiritual health which can coexist with healthy mental development.
Do you know broken heart sleep is as horrible as something incurable? Everybody loves to improve sleep quality to stay healthy and get more energy. We all know how important the role sleep plays. But poor sleep quality has become a norm in our modern society. Sleep cycle and sleep quality are the two factors for us to estimate whether we get a good sleep.
Many people pay too much attention to the sleep quantity as if 7 or 8 hours of night sleep would put them under a safety belt. However, good quality sleep has no causal relationship with the hours of sleep in an absolute sense. They are connected only when the quality of sleep is good enough. There are also a lot of people who deem alcohol as a nice stimulant for good sleep. Some of them even consider alcohol as a cure or medicine for insomnia. This is a big misconception. Science and clinical evidence shows: Drinking disrupts the regular sleeping cycle and even worse, hurts liver function because it is against the natural metabolism of the liver at night. Although you may feel sleepy with alcohol intake, it is just an illusion of good sleep.
We need to probe into the problem of each individual's insomnia to get a better sleep quality because insomnia is a problem of multiple causes. There is also a dynamic relationship between sleep quantity and sleep quality. The statistic shows that too many hours spent on sleep is as harmful as too few hours. Oversleeping, like overeating or overcooking, makes sleep function in a counterproductive way! It is the universal truth that all extreme things do not survive. Broken heart sleep is the sleep out of balance in mind and heart. Balance is the key. But it is extremely difficult to gain a fine balance between our mind and body.
Sounds familiar and right? Otherwise, life would have been easy absent struggles and troubles. Oversleeping can be an instinct in psychology to escape the world. When one indulges oneself in sleeping more than what he or she needs, he or she is reluctant to face the life straightforwardly. Static Meditation is much needed here to avoid broken heart sleep.
In our life, if one is not mentally balanced, full of anxiety and stress, external factors are not controlling. It means even if all external disturbing factors are removed, we still cannot have a good quality step. On the other hand, if we feel free of anxiety and stress, we can have good sleep without being disturbed by bad external factors, such as the sleeping environment or other sleeping conditions.
A poor beggar with inner serenity and peace can sleep safe and sound on the street in the open air, whereas a rich man can turn and toss around on his thick soft mattress in an air-conditioned luxury king bedroom. Isn't it true? The former may carry a carefree heart because the meager resources of his life make him simple and good, whereas possession of too much money instigates greed, lust, and other negative human emotions which makes one heartbroken.
Knowing it is all about our broken heart which keeps us awake all night is helpful for us to correctly adjust our sleep patterns without unnecessary self-defeating psychological interference or unconscious mental disruption.
Vivid lucid dreams often signal good quality of sleep. There are two kinds of sleep: REM and non-REM sleep. REM sleep is characterized by a rapid eye movement pattern. We dream during REM sleep. We can have different types of dreams. Those nonsense dreams often signal shallow sleep where our brain clears up the informational waste and get it organized.
But when we enter into lucid dreams, we start to migrate to another space or world with our soul, and our physical brain takes good rest. For more information, stay tuned with this blog. I will publish a book on this deep and interesting yet mysterious topic! When we are totally relaxed and gained a fine balance in heart, feel no more broken, we can cross over the barriers that prevent us from being free. Without a free spirit, our souls are bogged down on the Earth even during sleep, and lucid dreams require very deep sleep where our spirit is independent of our body so that we can feel we are dreaming when we are in the dream. To do this, we need to amend our broken heart, as a broken heart only pulls our soul down.
In sum, to have quality sleep, we need to understand which part of the sleep cycle really serves its purpose of taking good rest and the controlling factor for good sleep lies in the peace and harmony within our hearts.