Buckwheat Pillows

IMPROVING YOUR SLEEP

     Buckwheat pillows really shine when you’re having a bad night, sleep-wise. They definitely help you make it through the night. Make no mistake. If you have one, or several, circumstances which are causing discomfort, thereby minimizing your prospects of achieving a sound night’s sleep, I can not tell you that sleeping on a buckwheat pillow will magically eliminate those circumstances.

     However, two different scenarios, or a combination of them, may be at play. One is that the circumstances causing your discomfort may indeed be diminished, or even eliminated, by sleeping on a buckwheat pillow. Such circumstances could include, but not be limited to, such things as neck muscle tensions, tension headaches, or the use of a conventional pillow which does not match your particular requirements for a comfortable, sleep inducing, pillow. Incidentally, your requirements can vary from one time to another. The malleability and adjustability of buckwheat pillows can facilitate that factor.

     The other scenario is that the circumstances causing your discomfort, thus your inability to sleep, is indeed something which in and of itself, may not be eliminated or diminished by sleeping on a buckwheat pillow. However, that does not mean that a buckwheat pillow will not actually increase your prospects of achieving a much better night’s sleep than you would have had minus the buckwheat pillow.

     Discomfort can be a cumulative type of problem. As your discomfort increases, your ability to achieve sound sleep decreases, and vice versa. So if you can increase your degree of comfort by sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, you automatically increase your prospects of achieving sound sleep.

     So, to sum it all up, if you’re having difficulty sleeping due to circumstances causing discomfort, sleeping on a buckwheat pillow is very likely to help, if not entirely eliminate, the problem. No wonder so many people swear by buckwheat pillows.

THE NATURAL SLEEP REMEDY

     Do you sleep on a buckwheat pillow? Probably not. Do you ever experience problems falling, or staying, asleep? Nearly everyone does from time to time.

     Do you realize there is a natural remedy for these problems that is as old as the hills, but still one of the best. It’s been used in the Orient for 2-3000 years, but is nearly unknown in the US.

      I was surfing the web to see what remedies were being touted for helping people fall, and stay, asleep. I was amazed to find that the only sites which were promoting buckwheat pillows as a help for sleeping problems, were some sites that were in the business of selling them. This is really unfortunate, because unless a person knows that buckwheat pillows are so advantageous in helping solve sleeping difficulties, they won’t have any reason to search these buckwheat pillow sites in the first place. This just perpetuates the secrecy that seems to persist regarding the amazing ability of buckwheat pillows to promote deep, blissful sleep.

     Well, now that you’ve read this, you are one of the relatively few that has this knowledge. Don’t let it go to waste. Invest in a buckwheat pillow, and be sure to tell everyone you know about all the qualities it has as a pillow. Don’t forget to tell them about the adjustable comfort via the concealed nylon zipper, the air ventilation through the buckwheat hulls, the malleability which lets it mold itself to your exact head and neck configuration allowing even support to all areas, the freedom from dust mite infestations, and most importantly, the sheer comfort you experience from sleeping on your organic buckwheat pillow.

     Here is a short, to the point, resume’ of how the benefits of buckwheat pillows surpass those of conventional foam or feather pillows.

     A. Comfort

          1. Malleability - They conform to and support your head and neck in any position. They do not try to return to their own predetermined shape.

           2. Ventilation - The buckwheat hulls allow air circulation through the pillow, thus preventing heat build up in your pillow.

           3. Individualized comfort adjustment - The concealed nylon zipper in quality buckwheat pillows allow each person to adjust their pillow to their own individual comfort volume. They are very compatible with the new adjustable comfort mattresses now becoming so popular.

            4. Cooling of the head - If you wish, you can cool your buckwheat pillow in a refrigerator or freezer, and it will effectively cool your head for some time. Heating is also possible, but I do not recommend it for reasons of safety.

             5. Forget all of the above - Just try sleeping on one. The difference in sleeping comfort will be so obvious you’ll forget all about the reasons why, and you’ll just thank your lucky stars that you have been so fortunate as to have discovered a pillow so blissfully comfortable to sleep on.

     B. Health

          1. Naturally organic - Because buckwheat grows well on poorer soils, and benefits very little from chemical fertilizers, growers do not waste their money applying chemical fertilizers. It also has few, if any, fungal or insect type enemies. This makes chemical pesticides and fungicides also to be not cost effective. Thus it just makes economic sense for buckwheat growers to go organic.

             2. Naturally dust mite infestation free - Buckwheat hulls provide no support for dust mite infestations. Dust mite infestations are universal in all other types of pillows, unless they are either sealed in plastic, or treated with chemical pesticides, both of which are detrimental to health. Dust mite cadavers and feces literally add significant weight to conventional pillows, and produce allergens which contribute to asthma problems as well as allergy attacks to susceptible people.

              3. Hypoallergenic - While buckwheat flour may contain allergens to which a very small percentage of people are allergic, quality buckwheat pillows undergo a special vacuuming process which removes all traces of this flour, thereby rendering them hypoallergenic. Beware of cheap imported buckwheat pillows which have not undergone this vacuuming process.

               4. Pain relief - The support provided to the head and neck muscles deliver relief from muscle and nerve tension in this area, and many find relief from neck and shoulder pain as well as from tension headaches and other discomforts.

     C. Economics

            1. Quality buckwheat pillows last a long time - ten to fifteen years. Conventional pillows, due to their dust mite infestations, are advisedly replaced periodically - some health experts recommending every six months. A quality pillow, whether conventional or buckwheat, costs about the same. So when you then compare the longevity factor, you can see the huge economic advantage of buckwheat pillows over conventional pillows.

INDESCRIBABLE COMFORT

    My grandson-in-law was trying to describe to me how he slept on his buckwheat pillow. I couldn’t picture in my mind, what he was trying to describe, but I did understand what he was telling me. Does that sound like an oxymoron? Let me try to explain.

     Maybe he wasn’t good enough in his explanation, or perhaps I wasn’t good enough in my comprehension. However it didn’t really matter, as I had experienced the substance of what he was trying to explain from having slept on my own buckwheat pillow. So you can see why it really didn’t matter that I couldn’t totally understand his word picture that he was trying to paint.

     The important thing, in this case, was that I understood the concept before he even started trying to explain, simply because I had already had the same experience.

     He was trying to describe to me how uniquely his pillow fit his particular style of sleeping. I doubt there are any two people who position their head and neck exactly the same way on their buckwheat pillow. The pillow doesn’t dictate the position it’s used in, the individual does.

     This probably all seems rather irrelevant and somewhat boring if you’ve never experienced sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, but if you have, I’m sure you understand what I’m talking about. But right now I’m making the assumption that I’m writing for someone who hasn’t had this experience.

     How about I just get to the point, and confess that I find it almost impossible, just as my grandson-in-law did, to describe the intimate way that your head and neck can connect with, and be so comfortably supported by a mere pillow.

     Therein lies my biggest challenge. How in the world can I convey the luxurating quality of comfort produced by one of these pillows to someone who has not yet experienced it, when two people who have experienced it can not successfully describe it to each other? If I were ever able to accomplish that, I would be able to sell buckwheat pillows faster than I would be able to spend the profits made by selling them.

     To me, this is a quandary. How can I convince people to buy a product that I find impossible to adequately describe as to it’s indescribable sleeping comfort?

     My attempt at a solution to this is to give my money back guarantee of satisfaction. If you don’t find my pillows to be to your satisfaction, return them within thirty days, and I will return your money. At this point in time, that is my only solution. If you feel that is a fair offer, order your buckwheat pillows today.

Start Living A New Life

     A buckwheat pillow could just be your ticket to a new lease on life. I know so many people who have become just a “stick in the mud”. They’ve become so “stuck in a rut” that their life just has to be boring. Remember the old song “Life Gets Tedious, Doesn’t  it?” Life doesn’t have to, and shouldn’t, be that way.

     However, inertia is a formidable adversary when it comes to breaking out of that suffocating routine. But if you’re ever going to get out of it, you’ve got to start somewhere.

     I have a suggestion. Start by buying a buckwheat pillow. Now, I’m assuming you’ve probably never heard of a buckwheat pillow, or if you have, you probably don’t really know what they are. So investing in one would be the first step in breaking out of your old hum drum status quo way of life.

     It’s a relatively easy, but different and unfamiliar step, which is what you need to do to start breaking out of your shell. It starts to break down that inertia I wrote about earlier. Once you’ve experienced all the good, comfortable sleep that results from that choice, it will be a positive incentive to make more innovative decisions which will pull you a little further out of your rut. It may encourage you to take some more drastic steps, like eating some grilled asparagus (it’s delicious), or taking a ride on a ferry (it’s fun).

     The sky is the limit. You might take a course in growing bonsai trees, (an ancient japanese art of stunting the growth of trees to make tiny miniature ones), or learn to play a musical instrument. What the heck, enroll in college or run for political office. People just don’t realize the potential that can result from buying that first buckwheat pillow.

Best Sleep Ever

     People buy things for many reasons. Any saleable item may have a number of attributes that make it attractive to would be purchasers. But there is usually one feature which influences more people to invest in a particular item than any other.

     In the case of buckwheat pillows, that number one attribute is its ability to provide incomparable sleep because of its unsurpassed comfort, which I shorten to “sleeping comfort”

     There are many other reasons for buckwheat pillows to be attractive to potential customers, and indeed many are purchased due to these various other features. I personally think some of the other reasons, such as the health and economic issues, should be at least as influential in buying buckwheat pillows as sleeping comfort, but that’s like saying the truth should be more important to a politician than getting re-elected. That’s just not the way it works.

     Having said all that, I certainly don’t mean to detract from the sleeping comfort aspect of buying a buckwheat pillow, as anyone who has experienced sleeping on one can appreciate.

     The adjustable volume which provides individual comfort choices, the malleability which allows for head and neck support in whatever position you choose, and the ventilation factor of the buckwheat hulls, all combine to provide a pillow which is incomparable regarding the comfort of the sleep they provide. Some may add to that the added benefit of cooling them in the refrigerator or freezer.

     So, regardless of which reason influences a would be purchaser the most, the really fortunate fact is that they need not make a choice, because upon making a purchase they acquire all of the features. However, you won’t acquire any of these attributes just by reading about them. You get your rewards only upon the purchase of your pillow, so order your buckwheat pillow right now.

A UNIQUE CHRISTMAS PRESENT

     Are you looking for the most unique Christmas present? If you could give a gift that was a real surprise, maybe even something the recipient never heard of, and yet something they would use and cherish every day (night) for years and years, wouldn’t that be just special?

     Every year so many people receive the same tired old gifts that they don’t really want, and they wish their friends would just use some imagination and put some real thought into choosing a gift for them. They know their friends’ hearts are in the right place, but it’s just such a letdown to keep getting all that stuff they really don’t want.

     Well, here’s your chance to be the hero of the family Christmas Get-To-Gather. Get each of them a buckwheatglory.com pillow. Be sure to explain to them how to use the concealed nylon zipper to customize the volume of filling to their own unique comfort level - that’s important. Otherwise they may think it’s just an ordinary bed pillow, and an overstuffed one at that. Once they’ve found their perfect volume comfort level, and actually slept on it, they’ll love you forever. You may find some of them, after having eaten that “too hard to resist overeating turkey”, making use of those pillows while taking their after Christmas dinner nap.

     There is a problem. But I offer a solution for that as well. The problem is “How do I top that gift next year?”. The solution? Buy them a different buckwheat pillow style each year. One year get them a travel pillow, another year, a bed pillow, and then a neck pillow etc.

      Eventually you’ll run out of pillow styles, but at least you’ll have lots of time to ponder the answer to that. To make it more interesting, get each different person a different style. If you have friends whom you won’t get to actually visit with, no problem. We’ll drop ship them right to their house.

     This is a win, win, win, situation. You don’t find those too often. You’ll be so happy you were able to  give your friends a really unique gift they’re so happy with, your friends will be so happy they finally received a unique gift that they just love, and I’ll be so happy that you bought some buckwheat pillows from me. Don’t you just love a happy ending?

     I don’t want to scare anyone, but in most cases, if you decide to try sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, there’s no going back. You’re hooked for life. I’ve seen it happen time after time. That’s what happened to me. I decided to try one, and I’ve never looked back.

     But that’s a good thing. When I think of the money I’ve saved, the countless hours of blissful sleep I’ve enjoyed, and the enhanced health I’ve been endowed with, I just thank my lucky stars that I had the good fortune to somehow become aware of buckwheat pillows.

     I’ve always had a penchant for investigating and trying things just a little out of the ordinary, or in today’s lingo “out of the box”. That’s really the only thing that caught my attention when I heard of buckwheat pillows the first time. I really didn’t know exactly what they were or what their advantages were, and they weren’t easy to find.

     Fortunately, I had just gotten my first computer. That was another thing I really didn’t know quite what to do with, but it was something not a lot of people in my neck of the woods had, and I looked at it as a sort of useless novelty. However, one of the first things I used it for, was to look for buckwheat pillows. They seemed to me to be rather expensive at the time, costing more then, than they do now, so I opted to buy buckwheat hulls and some material, and have a friend sew together the pillow covers.

     That was the beginning of a great love affair, between me and buckwheat pillows, not the friend who sewed them up, although we’re still friends. So that’s my explanation for the title of today’s blog post. One night’s experience was all it took to get me hooked on buckwheat pillows. That was twenty-some years ago, and I’m still sleeping on that same handmade buckwheat pillow. It’s an understatement when I advertise my buckwheat pillows as lasting 10 to 15 years. I’m sure mine will easily double that claim.

     So, now you’ve been warned. If you decide to try sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, be prepared to spend the rest of your life enjoying the most comfortable, most healthful, most economical pillow in the world.

     So what are you waiting for? Go right now to www.buckwheatglory.com and invest in the most blissful and enjoyable sleep of the rest of your life.

Hold On To Your Pillow

     Some weeks ago I wrote a post about our granddaughter, Shannon, complaining about headaches keeping her from sleeping, and my wife letting her use her buckwheat pillow to take a nap on our sofa. She had such a relaxing sleep that she asked my wife, Doris, if she could borrow the pillow, and Doris told her she could have it.

     As you may remember, her husband, Ed, asked Shannon if he could try it out. Shannon let him, and he was so enamored of it, that he kept asking Shannon if he could borrow it. Soon Shannon was complaining that Ed was wanting to borrow it a lot.

     Ed is a plumber, and we had a small leak in our plumbing, so Ed, Shannon, and their 3 children came over and he fixed our leak, and we all enjoyed a home cooked meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, and all the “fixins”.

     After dinner we’re sitting around watching TV, and Shannon was obviously drowsy. She said she couldn’t sleep well last night as she had a headache. I said to her “You mean you had a headache even while you were sleeping on your buckwheat pillow“. I’m sorry I asked the question. She shot a look at Ed and said “I never get to sleep on it anymore. Ed kept asking me if he could have that buckwheat pillow to sleep on every night, and I just got tired of hearing him begging for it, and he sleeps on it every night now. I never get to sleep on it anymore”.

     Now they’re really a lovely couple, and usually get along great, but it was obvious to Doris and I that there was some degree of friction there, due to a pillow fight, so to speak. Well, we now know what our next gift to one of them needs to be, we just haven’t figured out which one. 

     So, I guess the moral of this story is, don’t give a buckwheat pillow to 1/2 of a married couple, unless you want to cause a marital problem. Fortunately, I think we discovered the error of our (I mean my wife’s) ways in time to correct it. Of course this lesson needs also to be applied to the individuals within a marriage. Don’t make the mistake of buying a buckwheat pillow only for yourself. Remember, a marriage is a partnership, and we don’t need friction in the bedroom. In a marriage, you buy buckwheat pillows in pairs.

HERE I AM

     Buckwheat pillows are the way to stretch your dollars in economic doldrums such as we are now in. Does that surprise you? Stay with me on this one, because it may not be apparent at first glance. The important thing in this regard is to stick with quality buckwheat pillows, not those el cheapos sold in discount stores and elsewhere that are made in China or Japan, and sell for 1/2 or less than a good quality one.

     A good quality buckwheat pillow will last for 10 to 15 years, without fear of a dust mite infestation. It will improve in comfort with use, and will always be fully adjustable as to your own personal comfort level, due to the concealed nylon zipper.

     The poorer quality ones will be lucky to survive a year. They probably are not adjustable in their volume of hulls. They’re usually filled with imported mulch grade hulls, which means that by federal law they must be roasted to kill any foreign insects or bacteria. The roasting bakes out some of their natural oils, reducing their life expectancy.

They are seldom properly vacuumed to remove all traces of buckwheat flour, thus they may support allergies and aggravate any tendencies toward asthma. These low quality buckwheat pillows can not be considered hypoallergenic. There is a low percentage of people who are allergic to buckwheat flour, so it really needs to be properly removed by triple vacuuming.

     So, bottom line, considering that conventional feather or foam pillows should be replaced periodically due to the dust mite infestation problem, and low quality buckwheat pillows are not satisfactory, the only thing  that makes real economic sense is to invest in good high quality buckwheat pillows.