The nights are long, the hours fly by and yet, despite the 8 or 9 hours of sleep you have spent in your cozy bed, you wake up totally exhausted. You then suffer from non-restorative nights that totally disrupt your days and your cycles. This very common sleep disorder could be easily explained. The causes can be diverse and varied but the one we encounter most frequently is a concern for rhythm.

Indeed, we all have an inner clock that regulates our life. Our internal rhythms are orchestrated by various elements such as the secretion of hormones, digestion and assimilation of food, the variation of our body temperature, our cells and their renewal, etc. In short, our bodies are in an eternal state of painstaking work so that we can evolve in an optimal state of health.

Some notions of internal phenomena beyond our control

• Our internal temperature changes throughout the day and decreases in the evening before going to sleep.
• Melatonin, the sleep hormone, secreted by the pineal gland, has its peak secretion around 10 pm and this, until the middle of the night.
• Ghrelin, a hormone that regulates appetite, opens the appetite when the body needs it.

And yes, nothing is done by chance. Our internal body is a very intelligent machine and listening to it should be a priority today. These very precise rhythms are however specific to each person because each human being sees his or her body survive and evolve according to different rhythms; in fact, our personal cycles are also due to external and personal events: the seasons, the weather or even the sex of the person, his or her mood, his or her life experiences

However, as you will all admit, living a life in accordance with the needs of our body is not easy. We are all caught up in an active, professional or family life that sometimes goes at more than a hundred miles an hour and we are forced to let ourselves be carried away by the misdeeds of this daily life. Few people today can listen to themselves completely and fully.

But then, why am I tired?

Despite the fact that our bodies are finely tuned, we can suffer the inconvenience of fatigue when we voluntarily derange our cycle:

• Staggered meal times or irregular meal times. An irregularity in our culinary schedule can disrupt our cycle.
• An overly active agenda and social life. We are no longer listening to our body and we impose on our body schedules that do not suit it.
• Staggered working hours: let's think of all the people who work on break and night shifts and who cannot live a healthy life in harmony with themselves.

There are many examples, but this illustrates that if we don't listen to ourselves, our bodies lose their minds completely and get stuck in a mess that doesn't suit them.

Result: our sleep can be involuntarily disrupted. We do sleep, but our bodies don't make the most of those hours spent under the comforter.

The changes can be very negative for our body which requires time to adapt which is not always granted. Note the time changes each year in March and October, these changes of hours disturb our biological clocks. An adaptation of a few days is necessary and some would like to have more time.

If the difficulty of this 21^th century is to be able to breathe and blow, to settle down and listen to one's body, it will nevertheless be more and more necessary to stop and say stop. By continuing at an inadequate pace, we are heading straight for illness. Taking breaks, taking time for yourself, going to the forest, the mountains or the sea to recharge your batteries will soon become a health obligation.

Take time for yourself whenever you can and listen to the signs your body sends you.