Lack of Sleep Induced My Headaches

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Last weekend I experienced 2 days of continuous headaches, it was a mixture of migraines and other headaches. I’ve been reflecting on what I ate and what I did — or didn’t do. I found Three factors that I am certain contributed to my headaches.

First: Lack of Sleep / Bad night of sleep

Second: Diet (ate food out that was not organic, old, salty, possibly has MSG’s & Did not drink enough water).

Third: Lack of physical and spiritual fitness.

Common sense factors, right? Absolutely, I know. But aren’t most things in life common sense and we still miss them? Regardless, we need to find proof via controlled research and experiments before we can call common sense practices ‘proven and tested’.

In this article I will discuss these factors briefly and will make a point to talk a little more about sleep and how it causes headaches.

Everything we do has an effect on our health and well being. So, here’s what I did wrong. I had not done enough physical exercises, and I did not do enough meditation.. These are areas that need improvement.

I also ate out, and the food was too salty, tasted old and stale and the restaurant was not an organic restaurant. I try my best to seek organic restaurants, organic food, juice and wine, and when I eat meat I eat free range meat. This restaurant had none of these.

The real interesting factor this time was lack of sleep or the bad quality of sleep. The night before my headaches started I had multiple nightmares that woke me up, in the morning I was tired but of course could not stay in bed. Then the headaches started soon after. The same happened again the night after. I went to bed with a headache and woke up with even a stronger one.. and I also had neck pain and my stomach was unhappy (stomach upsets and neck pains accompany migraines).

So, it was horrible, but after I meditated, relaxed, drank clean water, ate clean veggies and fruits the headaches reduced. Last night I had the best sleep in three days, I woke up with not even the slightest hint of a headache and am now headache-free again.

Obviously, I have only myself to blame for my lack of discipline, I’m working on structuring my time better and to solidify a meditation and physical exercise routine. Also to cook enough food so I wont have to eat out. As for that restaurant, like many others (fast food, Chinese buffet and other “industrial foods”), I will not set a foot there again.

I did a little research on sleep and headaches, the amount of research I found is mind boggling. Sleep is definitely connected to headaches. Don’t take my word for it. I will post some of the medical research relating lack of sleep to headaches in future blog articles.

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Thank you for reading — peace and health to you.

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