If You Keep Waking Up Between 3am and 5am, It Means THIS!

What does our inner clock tell us? We humans consist of body, mind and soul. All 3 factors are essential for us to remain in good health. The majority of us are active during the day and use the night as a resting time for physical and mental regeneration. Our sleep should be sacred to us, it does much more for us than just pure rest.

Our entire organism is practically rebooted, right down to the smallest cell. Shift workers or new parents can tell you a thing or two about the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation on their well-being and performance. It is all the more annoying when, theoretically, we would have ideal conditions to enjoy 7 to 8 hours of wonderful sleep at a stretch. In reality, however, there always seems to be something that keeps waking us up.

If it's not the enthusiastic neighbors or nocturnal teenagers with unlimited Internet access, we'll just have to look for the reasons elsewhere. For example, the time at which we regularly wake up at night can be helpful. It can be a decisive indicator on the way to finding the cause. An important clue comes from TCM. Traditional

Chinese medicine assumes that all important organs of our body are supplied with a particularly large amount of energy at certain times. This time is diametrically opposite to the time when a kind of low energy forms the counter pole. If the organs are stressed, impaired or have to do heavy work for us, we wake up at the time when its energetic supply is weakest.

In this article, we would like to briefly introduce the most important connections between the time of our nocturnal restlessness and the possible associated causes.

1. Difficulty falling asleep between 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

It is precisely the precious hours before midnight that provide us with the sleep we desperately need in this quality. If you go to bed on time with the best of intentions and then just lie there staring at the ceiling, you have several options to choose from and get to the bottom of.

The blue light of the displays of smartphones, laptops and the like signals daylight to our brain. So anyone who scrolls, surfs or, commendably, works at a computer screen until right before going to bed is not doing their night's rest any good. From the point of view of TCM, however, the problems falling asleep in this time window could also be due to another cause. Between 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., the so-called triple warmer is activated in our body.

This meridian is responsible, you guessed it, for our heat regulation. It runs from our ring finger over the shoulder area to our temporal bone. If its energy flow is disturbed, this interruption of our AI manifests itself with difficulty falling asleep. The best way to support our triple warmer is to dim the lights 2 hours before we plan to go to bed, and to avoid strenuous activities such as sports or high intensity work.

2. Sleep disturbances between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.

During this time, our gallbladder struggles with an energy slump. It speaks up when we have challenged it with excessively large portions or fatty foods for dinner. The detoxification organ of our body already does hard work for us every day. We can give it a helping hand by cutting down on alcohol and nicotine and not turning night into day more often than is absolutely necessary.

And of course, the expression "breathing fire and brimstone" is no coincidence. According to TCM teachings, the emotions of anger and rage are inextricably linked to the activity of our gallbladder. So going to bed with anger in our minds and the proverbial "rage in our bellies" harms not only our peace of mind and our night's rest, but also our gallbladder.

3. Waking phases between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.

The gallbladder is followed by the liver. It suffers its energy drop between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.. If the liver is in bad shape, we tend to wake up during this time window. The better we treat it during the day, the calmer it makes us sleep at night. From an emotional perspective, it is closely linked to upcoming changes or the fear of illnesses.

Sometimes we also get a "louse on our liver" when something doesn't suit us. With its nocturnal escapades, it reminds us to better isolate ourselves and not to take everything that has happened during our day to bed with us.

4. Waking up regularly between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

The liver leads to the lungs. An involuntary awakening between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. indicates that we cannot breathe as freely and carefree as we seem to during the day. The lungs, of course, have many other functions besides breathing. They transport oxygen to our bloodstream and ensure that all parts of the body can function properly, right down to the cellular level.

As far as our emotional life is concerned, according to TCM, the lungs have a hard job. They represent grief and sorrow, which we are not able to cope with or cannot cope with very well. We can support the lungs with plenty of fresh air in the bedroom. If you can stand it and live in a quiet area, it is best to sleep with the window open.

5. Early interruption of the night's rest between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.

When we wake up at this time, for very many people this fact is due to the alarm clock set and fully functional. Most days start, at least during the week, sometime between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.. If waking up is rather involuntary, the large intestine may be calling out for help. Its physical function is digestion and cleansing.

Emotionally and psychologically, it represents the ambivalence between letting go and holding on to people, situations and things. Constipation in the morning may also indicate that it needs our support. A glass of lukewarm water drunk on an empty stomach is quite enough for this unassuming organ.

Today's Conclusion

Take countermeasures with rhythm and routine. Of course, our body does not function like clockwork, not even like the one taught to us by the millennia-old art of TCM. But we should never underestimate such traditional teachings. They definitely have their justification for existence, which even modern mainstream medicine can no longer deny.

Quality sleep is something we can prescribe for ourselves on a daily basis. Sleeping pills, on the other hand, are strongly discouraged. They definitely upset our sleep-wake rhythm. The ultimate secret tip for blissful night's rest, however, is a strict and always consistent rhythm after we go to bed and get up 7 days a week. A room that is as completely darkened as possible, without unnecessary electronic devices, also gives birth to the best conditions for a dreamy night.

Bed linen and sleeping textiles made of natural fibers such as cotton or silk are real secret weapons for a good night's sleep. If you are willing to experiment, try to keep up interval fasting for a few days. We can give our body almost no greater joy than to eat nothing in the evening. After all, the digestive fire that it can be spared in this way is also a factor that keeps us out of Morpheus' arms. That's it for today. Thanks very much and see you soon.