Homeostasis Labs Sleep Relief
It's really hard to test out something that is fairly "fuzzy" like a sleep aid, especially if your sleep is being affected by stress. That is, let's say you are given a pill and you're told it will help you sleep more easily and you don't have to worry about tossing and turning and being exhausted. You now relax because you are sure this will be a good thing. Because you relax, you sleep well! So the pill could have nothing but dust in it and you're now sleeping quietly because you have quieted your mind of the stress. The mind is a fairly amazing thing.So I tried some experiments with these Homeostasis Sleep Relief pills.
First, I'm pleased with the box itself. It seems to be all cardboard and recyclable, which is a good thing. It's odd the way it opens, but that can be figured out. The two little white pills are gentle in flavor and dissolve easily. You don't have to swallow them. A plus in my book. So the process of taking them is easy.
Now what I did first is tell myself that these would work great, because they were made by a company which makes countless other similar products. They were established! They were good at this! I encouraged complete faith in my mind that these would help me relax, drift off, and I didn't have to worry about a thing. Sure enough, when I lay down, I relaxed, the stresses of my mind faded, and I was able to sleep.
I gave it a few days.
The next time I did my experiment, I gave myself the mindset that "one never knows" with these herbal concoctions. They might work for some people, but not for others. Plus, I had already optimized my bedroom for sleeping. It's a soft, comfortable mattress and pillow. There are double-thick shades on the windows to make it very dark. I have a noise machine / air filter. I drink chamomile tea. I meditate and clear my mind. If all of this is still not working perfectly, it would be questionable (although not impossible) that this pill would be the deciding factor. When I went to bed with that mindset, I felt perhaps more sluggish, but I did not fall asleep immediately. I tossed and turned a bit before falling asleep.
OK another few days.
Now I went for the full bore skeptic. Clearly if this stuff worked then it'd be featured in every drug store and we'd see lots of ads for it. People would be raving about how all-natural-ingredients repeatedly trounced hard core medical products in the tests. Everyone would be cheering that they no longer had to take their powerful drugs. Clearly this was a farce. It was worse than not taking anything, because now people were wasting their money for no reason. This stuff isn't free, after all. Taking these pills was like throwing money out the window.
With that mindset, I didn't sleep at all after taking them. I was awake for *hours*. It's not that I even though about them during those hours. It's not like I was tossing and turning thinking "those darn pills they didn't work". They really didn't enter my mind at all. I was thinking about the normal stresses in my life.
So for me it seems VERY much to be a placebo effect. If you take them and think they will help reduce your stress, then you will relax and they WILL reduce your stress. If you build a belief in your brain that you sleep better when you take them, then the times you don't take them you will worry about how you will sleep and therefore you won't sleep as well.
If you're having stress related sleep issues then I still think the best solution is to ADDRESS those issues. Find ways to manage and remove that stress. Yes you can't remove the SITUATION that causes the stress - but you can always manage your *responses* to it. That's the key and that does work!
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