Humans have been fascinated by sleep for thousands of years. When a person sleeps, they enter a reality about which we know very little, and their experience does not take place under the control of rational consciousness.
On average, a person sleeps for a third of their life, and yet sleep is still scarcely considered as a valuable indicator of the state of their health. During a medical appointment, a doctor will rarely ask the patient about the quality of their sleep unless it is closely related to the check-up they are performing. However, recent studies underline how sleep affects almost every health problem, and Chris Winter is one of the greatest advocates of this field of research.
Winter is a neurologist who specialises in sleep disorders, and over the years he has developed a series of exercises and practices that can recalibrate a person’s nocturnal habits. Sleep is in fact one of the three key psychological processes in human beings over which we can exert direct control, along with eating and exercise. The treatment of any ailment must begin with the awareness of this principle because the only way to solve a problem is to fully understand its nature.
The first thing to bear in mind is that human beings sleep to stay alive. Many brain and bodily functions work more efficiently during sleep. The second thing, we just touched on before, is the link between poor quality sleep and the onset of more or less serious physical and psychological pathologies.
