Make Your Own HGH - While You Sleep!

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Article Title: Make Your Own HGH - While You Sleep!

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Human Growth Hormone (HGH) has long been viewed as a remedy for

aging and the diseases associated with the aging process.

Research published in the AMA Journal of August 16, 2000 links

sleep disorders to a lack of HGH.

In an article on research undertaken at the University of

Chicago, headed by Professor Eve van Cauter, published in the

August 16, 2000 AMA Journal, a link was found between the sleep

disorders in 149 men aged between 16 and 83 and the lack of

Human Growth Hormone (HGH) in their blood.

This lack of HGH was found to be a possible cause of " middle

age spread " in the test subjects, and they theorized that the

lack of HGH in older persons was a reason for the typical build

up of fat and the loss of muscle mass.

HGH is produced naturally in the body, particularly at night

during deep or slow wave sleep, and this component of sleep in

the men was found to decrease from 20% for men 25 years or

younger when their HGH levels were highest, to 5% for those

over 35. By the age of 45, the research found that the men had

almost lost the ability to fall into a deep sleep once they had

awakened during the night. It found that by 50 years, the amount

of sleep had declined by 27% a decade. They also established

that growth hormone secretion decreased by 75% over this

period.

There was nothing to link the reduction in sleep to a lack of

HGH - this research showed a counter link - that less HGH was

produced by the body because of less deep sleep.

How Deep Is Your Sleep?

Research shows that deep sleep is dependent on " the state of

the person as they enter into the sleep period " - or in other

words, how relaxed and safe someone is as they go to bed at

night.

Unfortunately, people in the 1st World suffer from high to very

high underlying stress levels at all times and this influences

of course the systems of the body as it enters the sleep

cycles.

To put it simply, the body cannot distinguish between feeling

anxious because there are 12 mountain lions just outside the

front door and an unpaid bill or fear of redundancy, being

nervous about upcoming events or worried for a relative.

As a result, it will naturally go into emergency mode - the

lighter states of sleep which allow for rest but the person

remains very aware of outside influences, noises and movements

and wakes up immediately when there is any disturbance, bright

aware and ready for action.

This of course is a most useful safety device where mountain

lions are concerned; however, it was never devised for constant

use, a lifetime's worth of worry and anxiety about all manner of

things which basically *never ceases at all*.

As worries and anxieties and underlying fears are not resolved

but tend to increase, one piling on top of the next and new

ones being added as the years go by, sleep disturbances

increase and HGH levels decrease in turn, making it harder

still to find balanced states of mind and body and a sense of

security *within one's own self* which are the pre-requisites

for deep sleep - and more HGH production.

Sleeping Without Fear

Now, and although the title of the article concerns the topical

HGH, there are of course all kinds of reasons beyond this why

sleeping deeply is so important.

There are a great many reasons for sleep disturbances and if in

doubt, of course medical opinions should be sought; clearly

however, being unable to enter the deep, slow wave sleep states

because of underlying anxiety, fear and stress is the most

common problem, affecting a large part of the population in

many different ways.

So how can we go to sleep without fear?

Ananga Sivyer, author of " The Art & Science of Emotional

Freedom " , says, " I am sure that many sleep disturbances have

their root in childhood and child rearing. Simply put, children

are not designed to be left on their own, unguarded, when they

are young and vulnerable. Already then, being unable to relax

deeply and profoundly becomes the normal order of things and it

just gets worse from there. "

As this is primarily a direct physiological set of responses in

reaction to perceived vulnerability from the environment, there

are a number of techniques to help adults regain a sense of

safety.

Mind Control & Meditation Techniques

Although these can do little about existing " background

anxiety " , these kinds of techniques can at least relax the body

enough so that medium deep sleep with some incidences of deep

wave sleep can be achieved. In turn, if this is happening

regularly, a " virtuous cycle " begins to develop whereby the

slightly increased vitality and overall functioning of the

body's system begin to alleviate some of the background anxiety

in turn.

A simple and very useful example is to turn one's focus from

the problems of the day to imagining a guardian of some kind

being present who will protect the sleeper; this may be a

person they might know and trust or a guardian angel, a spirit

animal or any type of being or creature which will perform the

" guarding service " for the sleeper so they may really go deep

and leave their body indeed, vulnerable and unable to respond

immediately to outside stimuli for a time whilst they are in

deep wave sleep.

There are many useful articles on how to prepare and slowly

remove oneself from the stresses and stressors of the day

available; also many other meditation and mind control

techniques to " calm the thoughts in the moment " .

The core component is to remember that the sleeper will need to

feel safe and protected - what exactly needs to be done to make

this so is essentially idiosyncratic and different for

different people.

The other avenue in order to achieve the healing deep wave

sleep states is to begin to deal with the " background anxiety "

- the main fears and worries that underlie everything else.

A great many people are quite unaware of their own " background

anxiety " and how high this actually is. This may be a good time

to point out that everyone has this, and it is not a question of

strength of character, being a coward or even unusual in either

men, children or women in the 1st World.

There is an excellent range of meridian based self help

techniques available today which calm emotions and remove fears

and anxiety by working with the human energy system rather than

in the old fashioned psycho-analytical way; all of these are

gentle and userfriendly and highly recommended (see Resources).

In Conclusion

All the seemingly miraculous effects of artificial HGH

treatments, from weightloss, better condition, more energy and

a better functioning immune system can be had quite naturally

when we put ourselves in a position where we can begin to

produce natural amounts of our own HGH again.

For this, we need to sleep - not a lot, but deeply. And in

order to sleep deeply, we need to target particularly anxiety,

stress and fear, both at bedtime as well as our own individual

every day " background anxiety " levels.

When we do this with the help of the many useful new mind and

body techniques available, we will reap not only all the

advertised HGH benefits, but we will do so naturally, in

accordance with our own bodies and without fear of having to

pay the price of the side effects later. In the contrary, we

are setting up a virtuous cycle of healing and improvement in

our physical and mental functions.

Understanding how important it is to acknowledge, find and

treat our fears and anxieties WILL put a great many things to

rights - and without complicated diets, additional supplements

or unnatural exercise programmes.

About The Author: Silvia Hartmann is the autor of Oceans Of

Energy and Project Sanctuary. You can download a great range of

FREE meditation and sound healing mp3s as well as other

materials to help you release, relax and control your emotions

from http://DragonRising.com

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