DESCRIPTION: Sleep apnea is when the upper airway temporarily collapses during sleep, stopping breathing for 10 seconds to 1 minute.

SIDE EFFECTS: Sleep apnea causes sleepiness the next day (bad for attention when driving to work), headaches (very hard to concentrate with body drumming behind the eyes), heart disease (yes, badly affects heart), learning and memory (Goodbye new job when I can’t remember my work instructions), reality misperception (Are you sure you didn’t say that?), and mood disorders such as depression (Very debilitating ).

YOUR STRONGEST RISK FACTORS FOR SLEEP APNEA: Obesity and high blood pressure. It really is true: everything is interconnected. When you overeat, you stress your heart, which stresses your blood pressure, which weakens your upper respiratory tract while you sleep. Oh what a circle.

The SPIRITUAL FACTORS behind obesity and high blood pressure include these broken spiritual connections:

• Fear. Without a spiritual belief in something other than yourself, you will find that your broken inner self will still run the show.

• The need for protection. Fight or flight is essential for survival, but living on the run day after day is exhausting for the human body.

• Running away from your feelings instead of expressing them. Talk to someone you trust. Bottled it up and suppressing your feelings only stresses your body and that stress will land on an already weakened part of you physically and add to the damage that has already started.

• Unfounded insecurity. This is a holdover from early childhood days when you couldn’t protect yourself. Today, as an adult, you are no longer that same vulnerable child.

• Self-rejection. This could seem like an eating disorder or not wanting to live in your own body.

• Long-standing emotional issues that you will not address or heal. It could have been abuse, neglect or addictions.

If you have sleep apnea, you can be sure that you feel guilty about taking on your feelings of disappointment, bitterness, unforgiveness, and resentment. He may feel overworked, underappreciated, abandoned, abused, and unworthy. These guilty feelings are in effect trying to physically stifle his hurt feelings in the area of ​​his voice and throat.

But wait. There are solutions.

SPIRITUAL SOLUTIONS FOR SLEEP APNEA

1. Correct your diet. It’s obvious: stop eating genetically modified food, sprayed with poisons and fed junk food so that the animal grows quickly.
2. Bless your past and let it go. If you practice living in the present and learning from your past while letting it go, you will experience miracles in more than just your sleep patterns.
3. State your needs, which include:
1. Safety, security, comfort, order, consistency, control of one’s life.
2. Importance: Ask yourself if your life has a purpose and if you feel someone or something needs you.
3. Variety. Boredom is a sure motivation killer.
4. Love and connection: For spiritual well-being, you need someone or something to love and be loved by.
5. Growth – in the areas of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development.
6. Contribution – Where in your life are you caring for and helping others?

When you mend the spiritual, mental, and emotional breaks in your personality, your physical health will automatically follow suit.

Your body was designed to regularly repair itself. Did you know that your lungs repair and replace themselves every six weeks and that you have a whole new body every seven years?

Remember these three things:

1. You have to feed your cells the nutrition they need in order for those cells to replicate in a healthy way.

2. Starting today let go of the past and stop stressing your cells.

3. And lastly, remember that it is time to reconnect with a Power greater than yourself and bring peace to your past and joy to the present.

You can do it.