The primary requirement attached to a harmonious functioning and healthy life is creating a balance in between work, personal and family needs. This internal bliss not only motivates but also allows one to pursue dreams, achieve goals and enhance physical and emotional well-being. Often finding and maintaining the balance that suits the best is not always a simple or straightforward endeavor.

Today, many people feel that their lives are hectic and stressed out where priorities always seem to be competing in disturbing ways. Many a times it is noticed that people get so busy that they tend to relish their career achievements over the time to take care of themselves, family and exercise.

Consequences of Work Struggles

• Reduced efficiency
• Chronic symptoms may shape up as hypertension, heart ailments etc.
• Substance dependence such as alcoholism or chain smoking
• Requests by family to spend time together can feel like more demands rather than closeness and fun
• Disturbed sleep that results in following:

1. Stress, anxiety
2. Anger, irritability, depression
3. Difficulty in concentrating
4. Impaired ability to  motor coordination
5. Suppression of the immune system

How to cope up?

• Don’t go to bed unless you are sleepy.
  Read a book, listen to soft music or browse through a magazine. Find something relaxing, but not stimulating, to take your mind off of worries about sleep.
• If you are not asleep after 20 minutes, then get out of the bed.
  Trying some simple breathing exercises is a wise choice to make.
• Begin rituals that help you relax each night before bed.
  This can include such things as a warm bath, light snack or a few minutes of reading.
• Avoid taking afternoon naps if you can.
• Keep a regular schedule.
  Regular times for meals, medications, chores, and other activities help keep the inner body clock running smoothly.
• Don’t read, write, eat, watch TV, talk on the phone, or play cards in bed.
• Do not have any caffeine after lunch.
• Do not have a beer, a glass of wine, or any other alcohol within six hours of your bedtime.
• Do not have a cigarette or any other source of nicotine before bedtime.
• Do not go to bed hungry, but don’t eat a big meal near bedtime either.
• Avoid any tough exercise within six hours of your bedtime.
   
• Avoid sleeping pills.
• Make your bedroom quiet, dark, and a little bit cool.

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES

 Homeopathic remedies are useful during episodes of insomnia, and may also help individuals with longer-standing sleep disorders. If problems are serious or very distressing, a professional help should be fetched.

Arnica

 Good for physical overwork and when the bed feels too hard and uncomfortable. This remedy is also useful for jet lag as well. 

Aconite

 Used for acute insomnia caused by shock, fright, bad news, or grief, also indicated in condition of fear, anxiety, and restlessness. There may be episodes of being woken by nightmares.

Arsenic album

 The remedy is indicated when an insomniac feel sleepy during the day but anxious at night; Restless in bed with anxious dreams and nightmares. Also for warmth, warm drinks, moving about, and sleeping propped up in bed.

Calcerea phosphorica

 There is difficulty waking and getting up in the morning usually wakes up before midnight. Irritable, sluggish, and restless is a calcarea patient. Dislikes for a routine or schedules is prominent.

Causticum

  Here over-sensitive child gets easily upset and tearful, afraid of the dark.

Cocculus

  If exhaustion is related to changing work shifts or too many nights of staying awake, as when caring for a sick person. For overtiredness and exhaustion, using a dosage of 12X is advisable.

Coffea Cruda

 Coffea, the homeopathic remedy made from the coffee bean, is very useful in cases of sleeplessness when the mind is awake and working. Shows inability to relax due to the overexcitement caused by good news or ideas. Vivid dreams, overactive mind, overexcitement. The thoughts are not fixed on a disappointment, but nevertheless the nervous system seems to be overexcited, as if from drinking too much coffee. Take 3X to 200X dose for insomnia following too much coffee drinking.

Ignatia

 Sleeplessness caused by shock, emotional stress, or grief, where the person has become overwrought and moody, with frequent yawning or sighing.

Kali phos

 The patient wakes with a sinking feeling in the stomach Caused by excitement or mental strain.

Lachesis

 Sleep problems during the menopause with Sensation of suffocation at the throat or bed swaying as one goes to steep. Dread of going to bed because of sudden awakenings and the sensation of swaying. Night sweats. Waking anxious and feeling unwell. 

Sulphur

 Awakened by the slightest noise and finds it difficult to get back to sleep. Feels hot and thrusts limbs out from under the covers. The patient keeps awake by a continuous flow of ideas.

The list is endless but a professional help must be brainstormed to find the perfect dose and remedy.