Your Built in Alarm System!

                                

  Would you believe that there is a neurology habit to even your sleep patterns? Further research also shows that your body internally has a natural sleep and awake habitation. Right at the center of your brain are cluster of nerves called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, it is responsibility is to oversee your “body’s clock” formally referred to as the circadian rhythm. The circadian rhythm has the capacity to control when you feel sleepy and awake. It also controls your blood pressure and your body temperature and even your consciousness of time. These nerves are the master controllers of you as a machine without that revolting oil. Now let’s go trickle back to the concept of your bodies habit of sleeping and awakening.

    Everyone has a sleep-wake cycle, this is regulated by a protein called PER. The protein level rises and falls each day, peaking in the evening and plummeting at night. When PER levels are low, your blood pressure drops, heart rate slows, and thinking becomes foggier. You get sleepy. This is where I reiterate the power of learned habits and patterns-
If you follow a diligent sleep routine—waking up the same time every day—your body learns to increase your PER levels in time for your alarm. About an hour before you’re supposed to wake up, PER levels rise along with your body temperature and blood pressure, allowing you to wake up with without your alarm clock.  Apply this to new borns, when they are first born a mother must keep them on a consistent sleep schedule this helps them to become internally aware with the sensation of staying awake and sleeping.

    Essentially, if a baby can learn a habit and transmit it dualistically, someone socially conscious should be able to do so as well. let’s look at the neurology further.
The neurological impact that sanctions a habit is established and needs to be replaced and transmitted by a new habit. A habit is described as “an action that has become automatic or characteristic by repetition”. The bigger analysis to be made is how does a person get into the humdrum of doing something that they cannot seem to stop? A habit can only be started at the formation of experience and consistency. This process engages the basal ganglia, or the part of the brain located in the prefrontal cortex that works to start and control movement and emotions.

    This component essentially processes the emotional connection between the action and records the function of the habit in alliance with the neurons in your brain. This would be the reason people usually attribute their first experiences to anything as the premise for either doing something again or not doing it again.  For example, for someone who has never done drugs before and tried Heroin, the first encounter is magnified because the brain has no euphoric record of the high or rush until the first encounter. This is mainly why people chase their first drug experiences never finding that first rush, despite the non satisfying and empty feeling of incompleteness, there brain is referring the first euphoric encounter, that is what drives the addiction.

   With all of this being said, you might be wondering how does this affect my sleep routine, the answer to that is you can actually train on a sleep schedule and can benefit from not having to depend solely on the alarm clock to shock you out of sleep, when you can wake yourself up!

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