DO YOU WAKE UP EVERY NIGHT AT THE SAME  TIME? THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS

The human body has internal systems and clocks that help govern the bodily functions. Traditional Chinese medicinal techniques pay close attention to energy placement and movement patterns to various areas of the body at different times.

In a 24-hour cycle, your body apportions different energies to various organs.

If you frequently wake up at the same times, it could mean that some of your energy is getting misdirected or blocked. This leads to the disruption of our natural balance and cycle.

In this case, your organs require energy to heal and function.

Here’s the list of times and the particular organs associated with them.

These blockages should primarily be viewed physically and emotionally.

You need to review what you’ve been consuming, and at what times, as they could be the cause of your symptoms.

WAKE UP TIMES AND WHAT THEY MEAN

9 PM TO 11 PM

Most people try to fall asleep around this time. This is when the endocrine system rebalances, and enzymes get replenished.

The endocrine system regulates the metabolism and hormones. If you experience difficulty falling asleep at this time, you are probably stuck in a fight or flight mode.

Your mind is still engaged with the events of the day or already getting set for the next day’s challenges.

Recite positive mantras and release the formations responsible for your tension.

Eating unhealthily or too late in the day can also cause blockages.

11 PM TO 1 AM

Waking at this time, consistently, may be a result of resentments you carry. It is at this period that yin energy is transformed into yang.

Yang energy is extremely active, and your body should store it for the following day. Enhance self-love and appreciation and strive to stay relaxed and conserve energy.

Likewise, this is when the gallbladder is breaking fats down. You may be getting excess unhealthy fats or oils.

1 AM TO 3 AM

This is a critical time for detoxication and the renewal process of the body. The liver is breaking down and eliminating toxins while generating fresh blood.

If you wake during this time, it could be a sign of frustration, anger, and negative formation. If you’re not working on these spiritual toxins, then your mental ‘liver’ is alerting you to take action.

  3 AM TO 5 AM

During this time, the lungs are being repaired and are bringing in more oxygen to your body. You should be warm enough to help promote bodily functions. It’s also worth noting that lung complications are usually related to sadness and grief.

If you often wake at this time, you should try breathing exercises. Waking during this period could also be indicative of ascension – the process of increasing your vibrational levels from their normal level. It is attributed to getting into a more enlightened spiritual state.

There are other signs such as lucid dreaming, changes in appetite, sensitivity to strange sounds, and feeling cold for long periods.

5 AM TO 7 AM

This is the time when all toxins produced and broken down earlier in the night are being eliminated from the system.

Your large intestine is active during this time. You should avoid eating unhealthy diet or too late, to prevent issues that will lead to your waking up at this time.

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Restore Your Hormonal Balance For Fat Loss

If your weight-loss plans seem to be able to make no headway against the weighing scales, no matter how careful you are about your diet and exercise, your endocrine system could be the problem. Do you know that the balance of sex hormones doesn’t just regulate your libido but could impact your waistline too? Or that a stress hormone could bring on weight gain? With some simple fixes, you could actually balance your hormones and watch the fat melt away.

Are you careful about what you eat but still can’t seem to lose the extra weight? Is your battle with the bulge a never-ending story? If you’re like so many others who seem to be reasonably active and not especially bad about what they eat, a hormonal imbalance may be to blame. Thankfully, the fixes, while requiring expertise and proper diagnosis, are not as hard to implement as you might imagine.

The Insulin Issue

Insulin is a hormone you’ve probably heard about a lot in the news, thanks to its central role in new-age problems like metabolic syndrome. Insulin regulates how your body uses food for energy or fat storage. When you are insulin-resistant, your body doesn’t respond to insulin normally, causing your body to produce more and more of the hormone and eventually resulting in diabetes or prediabetes. The body is then unable to process glucose correctly. Weight gain is a common fallout. Other problems like polycystic ovarian syndrome are also linked to insulin resistance. You may need medication to help correct the problem and will need to get on a strict low-glycemic index, low-carb diet. Build some regular exercise into your routine to help correct the underlying hormonal issues that are worsening the weight gain. Luckily, many of the rules for weight loss will also help with some of these endocrine problems, so get with the program!

Fix Your Cortisol Connection: Stress And Weight Gain

Cortisol is a stress hormone that’s meant to regulate your reaction to stressful situations. Unfortunately, if you expose yourself to too much stress because you’re not getting enough sleep, have a stressful work or personal life, or are simply not eating right (too much caffeine, perhaps?), you could end up with a surge of cortisol in your body that then lingers always. When you’re stressed, you’re likely to crave fatty sugary foods to ease that pressure – and that’s a recipe for weight-gain disaster. In addition, if you’re sleep deprived, higher cortisol levels can link to insulin resistance, which puts you at further risk of obesity. So ensure you sleep well and take up some stress-relieving activities like yoga or meditation.

Watch Those Estrogen Levels

Estrogen, while more well-known as a female sex hormone, has a significant role to play in regulating your body weight too. In the right amounts, it controls insulin levels in your body, ensuring your body keeps its blood sugar levels steady, supplying it as energy to muscles to be burnt as a fuel. However, an imbalance of estrogen can be caused by too much intake from dietary sources like meats or too little due to polycystic ovarian disease or obesity – both ends can present a problem. This in turn could put you at risk of insulin resistance, with less sugar going to your muscles and more remaining in the bloodstream. Your body then starts storing the excess glucose as fat. So get your estrogen levels checked and speak with your specialist about suitable treatment. You can also cut back on your red meat intake.

                        Appetite Control with Leptin

The body’s appetite is regulated by a couple of hormones, one of which is leptin. It controls the energy balance in your body and, by extension, your appetite over the long term. Sometimes, your body may develop resistance to leptin, making it ignore the signals this hormone is sending out. The result? You won’t be able to tell when you’re actually full and should stop eating. Left unchecked, you’ll see the weight pile on as you eat more than you need to over time. So how does this happen? If you have a diet that’s high in fructose and processed food, it can cause leptin levels to spike. Conversely, eating a low-fructose diet can help keep this problem in check. Avoid processed foods and sugary snacks, check labels before you eat, but also get more of your “daily five” from vegetables rather than overloading on fruit (especially fructose-rich fruit like pineapple or melons).

Not Enough Testosterone?

The male sex hormone is an important piece of the metabolism puzzle in both men and women. Not having enough of it in your body could cause you to have higher fat mass and lower muscle mass, which in turn dampens your metabolic rate or ability to burn fat and carbs. In addition, a testosterone deficiency is also linked to higher cholesterol levels, increased triglycerides, and even insulin sensitivity. All of these are implicated in weight gain and fat buildup. So to fix this problem, you may need to check the levels of foods that mimic estrogen and avoid foods that lower testosterone in the body, like bread or water from bisphenol A (BPA)-laden plastic bottles.

Get Your Thyroid In Order

Thyroid hormones T3 and T4 also have a part to play in body weight regulation. Hypothyroidism or an underactive thyroid can cause your metabolism to become sluggish and bring on weight gain. You may also experience tiredness and constant fatigue that make exercise and activity a challenge. Digestion too can take a hit, making the balance of thyroid hormones vital to weight loss. An endocrinologist will help you decide on an appropriate course of treatment. You can treat your thyroid problem naturally by cutting down on soy, iodine, caffeine, and refined carbohydrates; eating more protein; and being mindful that goitrogenic vegetables like broccoli, spinach, kale, or cauliflower raw can aggravate thyroid problems. Practice stress alleviating techniques since thyroid problems have a close association with stress.

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How Does Running Improve Mood?

The importance of exercise for the body cannot be stressed enough. To stay fit and keep diseases at bay, it is the kind of care you must give your body. Studies conducted on both healthy people and patients with emotional disorders have shown positive effects of physical exercise, regardless of their gender and age. And the benefits were seen to be more marked in those with elevated levels of anxiety and depression.

How Does Running Help Your Mood?

As an exercise routine, running is one of the most convenient ones as well because all it demands is a pair of good running shoes—you do not need any equipment or a gym membership. And being a high-intensity aerobic exercise, it leads to better weight loss and builds stamina.

The Physiological Factors

Any kind of exercise, including running, increases body temperature and blood circulation in the brain and improves physiological reactivity to stress, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol levels. It even shows an improvement in self-efficacy, fighting distraction, and reducing contradictions in thought, belief, and action, something that is common in patients with cognitive dissonance.1 All of these naturally lift your mood and boost your morale.

Balances The Stress Hormones With The Happiness Hormones

Tough day at work? Go running to ease the stress. Any aerobic exercise, like running, brings about neurochemical changes in the body. It balances the negative effects of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol with the production of endorphins, which are chemicals in the brain that act as natural mood enhancers and painkillers.

An increase in the level of endorphins in your body is responsible for what is known as the runner’s high, the feeling of relaxation and optimism that you get after running for a long distance and even after a hard workout.

They keep your mind happy and help fight depression as they work like antidepressants sans side effects, relieving you of tension, relaxing both the mind and the body, and boosting mental energy.

Reduces Perception Of Pain

Aerobic exercise is also found to reduce the perception of pain. Its efficacy in alleviating chronic pain, however, needs to be studied further. Regular training can keep depression at bay to a certain extent. It is also used clinically to treat certain psychiatric and chronic pain conditions.

Keeps Your Mind Young And Sharp

Apart from improving your mood considerably, running has also been found to keep your mental faculties in top shape. A regular routine of running can help keep the mental decline caused by degenerative diseases at bay. It keeps your grey cells intact for longer. Studies that recorded the relationship between mood and exercise in the elderly showed significant improvements in the mood after exercise.

Helps You Stay Focused

Running also helps keep attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents in check. It boosts the levels of serotonin and dopamine in the brain. These, in turn, improve concentration, focus, and memory. Physical exercise has also been seen to improve attention and give better resistance to temptations and impulses, consequently improving concentration levels of ADHD patients.

The Emotional Factors

When you run, it is just you, the track, or the treadmill, or the road as the case may be, and the rhythm of your feet. When you push yourself to complete that last round, it is you against yourself. You are testing your own endurance, willpower, and motivation and emerging a winner.

Regular runners and long-distance runners, who are passionate about their chosen sport, participate in marathons or half marathons, and even ultra runs that take on longer distances. To push your limits, both physical and mental, to set goals and attain them—these are the aspects of long-distance running that strengthen you as an individual and boost confidence as well. And these can be of help if you are battling your blues.

Run For 30 Mins Daily

Studies suggest that healthy adults should do a total of 30 minutes of moderate physical exercise every day in order to experience the fitness and health benefits. It’s not necessary to do the 30 minutes in one go. You can stagger it through the day. The benefits remain the same.

It Can Alleviate Depression

It is not simply a feel-good thing; running can even alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety. Whether you are battling depression or anxiety or just want to destress after a hard day’s work, run, whether by yourself or with a group of friends!

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