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Spray This Simple 3-Ingredient Oil On Your Feet 10 Minutes Before Bed And Watch What Happens

I found this great recipe for an essential oils Sleepytime Spray - a safe, effective, and really nice-smelling sleep inducer. A quick spray on the soles of my feet and I'm out cold - and it even works for kids!

Remember sleep? I mean a Good Night’s Sleep. I’ve capitalized it because it’s important. But we often overlook a Good Night’s Sleep, and many of you (myself included) may not have gotten A Good Night’s Sleep in some time.

What does it even mean anyway? And more importantly – how do I get one?

A Good Night’s Sleep means 8 hours of shut-eye. There are tips and tricks on how to fall asleep – everything from Himalayan salt rock lamps to feng shui to dropping the temperature in your bedroom to a below-comfortable level.

Not Just A Good Night’s Sleep

You need 8 hours every night. Every night. EVERY. NIGHT. There – I’ve said it. Now that we’re on the same page, let’s flip to the next chapter: how to achieve this 8 hours of sleep using essential oils.
I’m guessing you’ve got some knowledge of essential oils, if so just skip this next part where I discuss the essentials of some essential oils (EO). The EOs you’ll need to make the 3-ingredient sleep spray are: Magnesium, Lavender, and Chamomile.

Chamomile: If you’re a gardener, tea-drinker, or just a great person that peruses Healthy Holistic Living daily, you’ll know about chamomile. It is a calming herb which, when brewed into tea, helps the drinker relax. As an EO chamomile is a potent and helpful sleep inducer.

Lavender: Lavender is another lovely flower as well as a calming, relaxing herb. In oil format, it is what we would consider “extremely potent” – sometimes a few drops on a pillowcase is enough. Most people use diluted lavender EO and, because of its potency, don’t use it for kids.

Magnesium: We’ve been talking a lot about magnesium lately: its internal and external uses and what that means for your digestion, cramps, anxiety, and sleeplessness. Magnesium EO can often make your skin tingle, especially if you’re magnesium-deficient, so the tough skin on your feet is a good place to apply magnesium EO. While not technically an “oil”, magnesium essential oil is called oil because of the look and feel – you can buy it (easier) or make it at home (cost-effective).

Why Foot Spray?

Foot baths are super-effective detoxes. With bentonite clay and water, for example, a simple foot bath can be prepared wherein you “literally see the toxins coming out of your feet”. Dubious, I know, but after soaking your feet the water turns dark and you feel a lot better. Even if it’s just a “placebo effect” it works quite nicely.

Your feet have the biggest and most pores of any place on your body, making them the perfect place to absorb much needed magnesium and oils which benefit your whole body. Your feet also have connections to the rest of your body – through touching specific points in your feet, you will do wonders for specific parts of your body.

Homemade Sleepytime Foot Spray

(Thanks to Wellness Mama)

Ingredients

4 ounces of magnesium oil
10 drops Lavender Essential Oil
10 drops Roman Chamomile Essential oil*

*Roman Chamomile EO is more relaxing, while German Chamomile EO is a better anti-inflammatory.

Instructions

Pour the ingredients into a 4 ounce (or larger) glass spray bottle. Cover and shake gently to mix the oils thoroughly. This will yield 24-48 applications.

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Put This Under Your Tongue Tonight and You Will Feel Amazing in the Morning!

Sugar and salt are a not so famous combination, but if you experience problems with your sleep it can be very helpful. They may be unhealthy for consummation in higher amounts, but if you use them moderately you will gain many helpful benefits such as improved immunity, healing headaches and insomnia.

Increased level of serotonin from the sugar and salt has anti-stress properties.

The glucose contained in the sugar is a very valuable addition of energy for the cells. Salt contains Natrium which assists in normal cell breathing and improves the energy generation. These two ingredients are extremely beneficial in the fight against stress, since it causes imbalance in the metabolism and makes you unable to relax through the night.

Recipe:

5 teaspoons of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of sea salt

Combine salt and sugar, and mix them well. Their ratio should always be 1:5. Keep the mixture in a clean glass jar.

Use:

A little of the mixture is applied below the tongue before sleeping. It will melt very quickly.

According To This Sleep Expert, School Shouldn't Start Until After 10am

Sleep expert Paul Kelley from the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, todays youth are so sleep deprived it is turning into an epidemic.

According to Kelley, “we are generally a sleep-deprived society but the 14-24 age group is more sleep-deprived than any other sector of society. This causes serious threats to health, mood performance and mental health.”

Kelley states that children are missing out on as much as 10 hours of sleep a week, which means they are more sleep deprived than a junior doctor who works on a 24 hour shift schedule! He recommends 8:30 a.m., or later, as the starting time of the day for 8 to 10 year olds, 10 a.m. for 16 year olds, and 11 a.m. for 18-year-olds.

Although this may seem dramatic according to our long standing prejudices of how things have always been done in the past, it is does have scientific merit and if it is a healthier approach, we should undoubtedly adapt accordingly.

Despite this, in America today, more than 75% of schools start before 8:30 a.m., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the similar statistics can be found in many parts of the world. According to a study, American children are the most sleep deprived in the world. Other countries with notably high rates of sleep deprivation include New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Finland and the UK.

An epidemiologist, Anne Wheaton, has also explained that "getting enough sleep is important for students’ health, safety, and academic performance," which is absolutely true. It is simply a fact.

Expert Paul Kelley was previously a teacher at Monkseaton High School in the U.K., where a study was performed tested 10 a.m. as the start time for students. The change saw a significant improvement in higher grades and overall performance. He is now working with fellow scientists Russell Foster and Steven Lockley of Harvard Medical School, and the Education Endowment Foundation, as well as the Welcome Trust on the Teensleep project; which is the largest study of its kind that hope to change the time when our children start school.

Below you can watch a short video about the negative impacts of sleep deprivation;

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