Cannot sleep? Here we will see why is sleeping so important -besides it's so cute!.

You would be making a huge mistake to think that your nights are any less significant or complex than your days. During the hours of sleep, when we appear to be most passive, something within us is intensely active, recharging us for the next day. When we are active, we are expending energy; when we are seemingly inactive, we are building it. It's interesting that energy is always noted in its expenditures, never in its accumulation. The brain and nervous system operate on nerve energy in the form of electricity. The body, like an electric car, needs to be recharged at night. Sleep is a partial shutdown for recharging.

The primary purpose of sleep is the regeneration of nerve energy. The vitality of the body is restored. During sleep the body is bustling with activity-repair of tissue, healing, restocking of organs and cells with fuel, replacement of old cells that have lost their vitality with new ones (cell reproduction occurs at more than twice the rate at which it occurs during waking hours). The heart pumps blood through the body to pick up wastes and debris uneliminated from the previous day and take them to the channels of elimination. Muscles tense; pulse rate, temperature, and blood pressure rise and fall; we are sexually aroused; our senses evoke a world of sights and sounds. Only part of the brain is asleep, for the nervous system continues to conduct billions of processes while we are sleeping.

 The brain is the most marvelous, complex, and astonishing organ known to science. During fetal development the brain grows by about 360 million new nerve cells a day, ultimately totaling about 100 billion of the most highly developed, sophisticated cells any-where in the universe. Over the last few decades, a great deal has been learned about the brain. However, despite advances in comprehending this awe-inspiring organ, we have only the barest understanding of the intricacy and wonder of this "marvel of creation". Many doubt that we will ever be able to fathom the true extent of the intelligence necessary for the mind and body to interact the way they do. Truly it is biology's ultimate challenge. There are some who believe that the entire purpose of our bodies is simply to supply food and oxygen to sustain the brain. So check out how sleep must be important!

Sleep helps corporal functions and metabolism

All body processes and functions are under the overall control of the brain. Everything that concerns the interactions of cells, tissues, and organs is under its control. The brain is the supreme judge of the body's best welfare. And marvelous beyond imagination, almost all brain functions and their results occur beneath the level of awareness. Brain functions at the subconscious level are unimaginably more diverse, extensive, wise, and precise than at the level of consciousness. In fact, at the level of consciousness we are simpletons compared to the seemingly infinite intelligence of our brain's subconscious. Even the most sophisticated computer that we can envision is crude compared to the apparently limitless complexity of the human brain.

When one reflects on the brain's astronomical number of tasks simultaneously performed with pinpoint perfection twenty-four hours a day for decades, one has to stand humbly in awe. Remember, the body has some 75 to 100 trillion cells, a number we can't comprehend. If you had to spend $75 trillion, you would have to spend a $1 billion a day every day for over 200 years. We're talking big numbers here. Consider that all of those 75 trillion cells are alive and sending out messages that they need responses to. Your brain at any given moment is literally receiving, information, monitoring not only the status of your body's inner environment but your outer environment as well. You can't swallow or breathe or sing or sharpen a pencil or think about last night or tomorrow or anything without your brain's involvement. At the same time that your brain might register that you have an itch on your neck, you smell a fresh-cut piece of watermelon and hear a friend's funny story.

Signals are processed, analyzed, cross-checked, and categorized so that you can immediately respond-scratch your neck, pick up a piece of melon, and giggle at the joke. Meanwhile, your brain is also monitoring your blood chemistry, temperature, breathing, and all of the other essential processes that keep you alive-all this beneath your awareness. In recognizing that consciousness, or awareness, is but a fractional function of our brain and is but one of its lesser activities in view of the magnitude of its role in administering the entire body, we can begin to appreciate the need for rest and sleep and their role in enabling the brain to recharge itself with nerve energy.

 No doubt about it, rest and sleep are two essentials of life important beyond description, but the full import is unrecognized by most people. They just "hit the sack," wake up when it’s over, and go about their business. Sleep is so critical that it simply overtakes us when it’s needed by the body. It can be put off for a while or deferred in an emergency, but put it off long enough and you just conk out. The body must have it, for it perishes without sleep, so it just takes it. I rest, therefore I exist! Sleeping well aids every corporal function work correctly. So, if you cannot sleep, please do it for your health: chek this entire site out.

 Many people are apt to confuse the words rest and sleep as being synonymous. Not so. Though both are vitally important, they definitely are not the same. The condition of sleep exists only when consciousness has ceased. Not too many people need convincing that sleep is important. That would seem as necessary as trying to convince someone that water is wet or fire is hot. However, when it comes to the importance of rest, people don't seem to have a sense of how essential it is in preserving health.

Sleep aid for children

• Don't put your child to bed immediately after an exciting game or rough-and-tumble - he will have great difficulty settling down, which will be frustrating for you. Give him ten to 15 minutes to quiet down, sitting with you watching TV or looking at a book.

• Even an infant likes looking at a book in bed. If your child seems happy, leave him with a favorite, non-scary book.

• Put a dab of your perfume or aftershave on to your child's pillow and suggest that he breathe it in deeply. Deep breathing is relaxing and calming and will help your child fall to sleep.

• Give your toddler a bath before bedtime, followed by a warm drink and bedtime story.