Buckwheat Pillows

      Buckwheat pillows, or to be more precise, the reasons that you need to sleep on one, have been the focus of nearly all of my blogging efforts to date. I’ve been bombarding you with all the logical and sensible reasons I know of to convince you that a buckwheat pillow is the be all and end all of the pillow choices of the world.

       You are all probably getting very bored and tired of my relentless advocacy of the reasons you have to sleep on one of my buckwheat pillows. About now, I’ll bet many of you wish I would just throw in the towel, and say something like “I give up. If I haven’t been able to convince you by now that you absolutely need a buckwheat pillow to get a really good night’s sleep, then you must be simply unteachable. I’m not wasting any more  time and effort on you.”

     Well, maybe you wish I would, and maybe some of you think I will.

     If so, you will be disappointed, primarily because my efforts have been too  successful to even consider doing that. The sales of my buckwheat pillows have been almost doubling each month. This, in spite of a very adverse economy.

     My only problem is that I feel like I’m sort of in a rut. I’ve been explaining , and promoting, and cajoling, and marketing, until I feel like I need to take a break from pursuing this angle. But I’m afraid to deviate from my path, because of the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” credo.

     However, on reflection, I don’t know if my success is actually the result of anything so tenuous as just my proficiency at expounding on the desireability of sleeping on  buckwheat pillows. I believe an appreciable amount of my business comes from word of mouth of my satisfied customers, because I notice that a fair amount of my customers addresses seem to be clustered in certain areas.

     This indicates to me that happy customers are quietly spreading the word to their friends and relatives, and I know for sure, that many customers return and buy additional pillows for other family members and friends.

      I’ve also noticed an increase in the number of  comments being typed in on the orders, telling me that they were ordering because of others telling them how much they loved sleeping on their buckwheat pillows they had purchased from me.

     May I take this opportunity to thank all of you who have been so gracious as to share  your experiences of sleeping bliss with your friends and relatives. Nothing that I could say in my promotions could ever have the impact that your testimonies, as a satisfied customer, do.

     I appreciate this very much, as do, I’m sure, the friends and relatives to whom you have conveyed your satisfaction.

     And to those of you, my customers who have not been sharing your experiences of sleeping bliss with your acquaintances, please do. They will be forever grateful.

     Don’t take this to mean that I promise that every single person will find a buckwheat pillow to be the answer to their quest for the perfect pillow. I mean, to be perfectly honest, it’s like, there are people out there who do not like chocolate, or moonlight nights.

     However, I do guarantee your purchase price back for one full year if you are not satisfied , so why would you not at least give them a try? The chance of anyone not finding them to be more than satisfactory has proven to be very slim.

     You know, I started out with this blog post, thinking I was going to give you and myself a big break. I was not going to promote, per se, buckwheat pillows. I was not going to explain, again, why you should buy a buckwheat pillow.

     Guess what! I think I’ve succeeded. Instead of explaining why you should buy one, I’ve just explained why you should help me sell some. I’m beginning to think I’m a marketing genius (lol).

     I just hope you all have as much satisfaction in sharing your love of buckwheat pillows, or more precisely, your love of blissful sleep, as I do.

     Sleep tight.

Blissful sleep is universally desired, but is also universally very elusive. It requires a complex plethora of conditions to come together in order to be satisfactorily achieved.

That is not to say you can’t fall asleep at all, but just falling asleep is not the equivalent of what I mean by blissful sleep. There is a difference.

If only a few things which contribute to blissful sleep are missing, you probably won’t experience it. One important thing often missing is a really comfortable pillow.

Different people find different kinds of pillows to be most conducive to blissful sleep. Most people have some idea of the pillow characteristics which they feel would most likely best suit their needs.

However, these ideas are somewhat preconceived, based on their experience with the pillows they have slept on in the past. If there is a pillow with which they have had no previous experience, especially if it is totally adjustable as to their own personal comfort requirements, they would be well advised to experiment with that pillow.

Buckwheat pillows are not like other pillows. They are not soft, like down. They are not compressable like foam. They are malleable, a new term when it comes to pillows.

Well, not exactly new, since they have been in use nearly 3,000 years in the Orient. But here, most people have had no experience with a buckwheat pillow.

For some, like me, that first experience is all they need. For others, it may take a little getting used to. I thank my lucky stars that I made the effort to experiment with buckwheat pillows, because I know now that I never really knew what blissful sleep was before I started sleeping on a buckwheat pillow.

Just buy from a vendor (like me) who offers a full year money back satisfaction guarantee at www.buckwheatglory.com.

For Neck Pain - Buckwheat Pillows

     Buckwheat pillows are becoming more and more universally recognized as an important tool in therapeutic pain relief in the spinal as well as other skeletal and neurological areas by chiropractors and other medical professionals. The wide recognition of this frequently results in questions being raised as to how best to make use of these buckwheat pillows in alleviating various pains and maladies.

     My answer to these queries, is that a professional chiropractor or therapist would be the proper venue in which to seek these answers. These problems can be very complex, sometimes having their origins in parts of the body located no where near the perceived pain.

     I can envision a scenario in which, by relieving some local pain or discomfort, a person could cause more harm than good. Perhaps applying the comforting support of a buckwheat pillow to your back, or under a hip, to provide relief on a temporary basis to allow you to get a good night’s sleep until you can get a professional diagnosis would not be a bad idea.

     Treating your back or hip pain, over a prolonged period without professional medical advice, may be analogous to medicating  miss-diagnosed heart burn with anti-acids. This often results in masking a serious heart condition that may result in a heart attack. Better safe than sorry.

     None of what I’m saying should be mis-construed to mean that buckwheat pillows are not helpful in providing relief of back, neck, or hip pain. Chiropractors advise their patients to use buckwheat pillows to provide support to backs, hips, necks, etc. on an ever increasing frequency, after they have performed a professional diagnosis of the problem.

    If you, or someone you know, is experiencing discomfort from what you perceive to be a misaligned vertebrae, pinched sciatic nerve, etc., my advise would be to make an appointment with a chiropractor, and ask them if a buckwheat pillow would be helpful in your treatment. They should then advise you on how best to benefit from various applications of them.

For Neck Pain - Buckwheat Pillows

     Neck and back pain are one of the primary adversaries when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep. Buckwheat pillows are one of the primary adversaries to neck and back pain. Sleep Awareness Month seems to me to be an appropriate time to discuss the relationship between spinal support and getting blissful sleep, and how buckwheat pillows factor into this equation.

     I have here a very helpful tool in explaining how the different areas of the spine relate to problems in different areas of the body, any one of which may contribute to deficiencies in the quality of our sleep. Even if you’re not experiencing any problems now, it’s not a bad idea to do whatever you can to prevent future problomatic situations from arising.

     While I usually promote buckwheat pillows for use in the normal aspect of sleeping with your head on a pillow, they actually provide many people with support to other areas of their spines while sleeping or resting. By moving your mouse from one area to another over the spine, you can see the various areas impacted by the different portions of the spine. Click here to view what I’m talking about. http://www.chiroone.net/library/index.html.

     Keep Sleep Awareness Month in mind as you peruse the areas impacted by various parts of your spine. Can you see how some buckwheat pillows placed at strategic points could greatly improve your chances of blissful sleep?

I CAN HELP

     Buckwheat pillows for neck and back pain are what chiropractors are advising for their patients suffering from these maladies. Buckwheat pillows have this unique characteristic known as malleability. This is due to the tiny ridges on the buckwheat hulls which cause the individual hulls to adhere to each other just enough to provide gentle support. At the same time they allow you to change position effortlessly.

     No other filling has this same quality. The pain relief provided by these pillows is not limited to joint and muscle pain. They also give relief to many who suffer from migraine headaches, and those who simply have trouble falling or staying asleep.

     Lots of people, though, who wouldn’t dream of sleeping on anything but a buckwheat pillow, actually have none of the aforementioned problems. They simply wouldn’t use any other pillow only because they just love that blissful sleep they enjoy night after night.

     Have you ever wakened up at night with your pillow feeling hot and clammy? That’s because conventional foam and feather pillows act as insulation, trapping all that heat generated from your head as you sleep. Buckwheat hulls allow air circulation in between themselves, thus that heat is circulated away from your head as you sleep.

     Have you ever heard the term, blissful sleep? Well, whether you suffer from neck and back pain, or you simply appreciate blissful sleep, a buckwheat pillow will do the trick. Of course you have to actually buy them and sleep on them to experience this blissful sleep. So invest in yours now. Especially now, as I have all of them on sale at the moment. May you have blissful sleep for 30 % of the rest of your life. 30 % is the approximate amount of our lives that we spend sleeping. Now go order your blissful sleep.

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     My buckwheat pillows’s value in one important area, I must confess, has been woefully neglected on my part. I had noticed that I was getting sales in several rather concentrated areas, and I couldn’t figure out why.

     The answer came from an unexpected (by me ) source, and caused me to realize I was totally missing a big selling point. The first clue came when I got an email from a chiropractic clinic telling me how beneficial my buckwheat pillows were to their patients, and that they were recommending to every one of their patients that they acquire one of my pillows.

     Shortly after that, I got a call from an elderly lady who didn’t use a computer, and ordered a buckwheat pillow  by phone. In the course of our conversation, she told me she had recently had a back operation, and her doctor had told her to purchase one of my pillows to help her recover from her back operation, and to provide support for her back in the future.

     That gave me an idea, and I checked the areas from which I had been receiving  concentrations of pillow orders. Sure enough, the areas where those doctors were practicing were the same areas where my sales were concentrated, and I hadn’t even thought about my pillows being used for that purpose. I had, myself, experienced the difference buckwheat pillows provide in cervical support to the neck area, and in providing blissful sleep, but had not been so unfortunate as to have experienced the back problems.

     I am very thankful to have not had those back problems to contend with, but I don’t know why I didn’t think about the many people, many of whom I know, who do. I apologize for that oversight.

     So I hereby take inspiration and direction from my customers chiropractors and surgeons, and proclaim to those of you who suffer from back problems, that you need to follow their advise and use a buckwheat pillow against your back to provide the support you need in that area while sleeping.

     Before I forget it (actually, I already had) if you have an Ipod or Smart phone, try scanning  my QR code in the upper left corner to get a discount.

BUCKWHEAT PILLOW

     Buckwheat pillows are the ultimate when it comes to comfort in the world of pillows. They are gaining in popularity to the point now where the buckwheat hulls are more valuable than the food buckwheat provides. The hulls used to be mainly used as a source of mulch in gardens and flowerbeds, but they’re getting to be a little expensive for that as the buckwheat pillow industry demands more and more of them.

     The company that supplies the hulls to make our pillows temporarily ran out this year, and they had to be shipped in from another state until the supply could be replenished. The demand for hulls for pillows is starting to push the price up, so it may be advisable to not wait too long to procure all the buckwheat pillows you may need down the road.

     While the health aspects of buckwheat pillows are arguably the more important among the various reasons for switching to them from a conventional feather or foam pillow, sleeping comfort still seems to be the driving force in their rising use and popularity.

     Oddly enough, the mainline box stores don’t seem to have jumped on the band wagon yet, at least not where I shop. I always make a point to check out the pillows for sale in the stores, and fortunately for me, I seldom find any, and when I do, they are of such inferior quality that I fear they will give buckwheat pillows a bad rap. I’ve known of a few people who’ve bought them, especially the ones sold on TV, and they were quite disappointed with them.

     While I’d certainly love to see quality buckwheat pillows become more popular, proliferation of those cheap imported ones certainly is not going to do anything to promote their widespread use, which is a shame. First impressions are important, so if many people get their first impressions from these inferior imports, it will further delay the general publics’ appreciation of all the advantages to be realized from quality buckwheat pillows as compared to conventional ones.

     So how does the uninitiated know if they’re buying a quality buckwheat pillow as opposed to a cheap import? There are a number of things to look for. First, look for a discreetly concealed nylon zipper sewn into one end of the pillow. This allows the user to adjust the volume of hulls to provide their own unique comfort level. Also, the pillow cover should be of a sturdy closely woven material, usually a natural unbleached cotton. This provides a pillow that will last fifteen or more years. Hopefully there will be available instructions and information on the website or store in regard to qualities such as being organic, made in USA of organic, N American grown components, and using triple vacuumed or equivalent flour and dust elimination measures.

     Also, a quality pillow should have an ample supply of hulls, either enclosed within the pillow itself, or provided in an additional container. If they are in the pillow itself, it should appear somewhat over filled, and it actually is. The reason for this is that over time, the tiny ridges on the hulls which provide the malleability, wear off a little (which actually improves the malleability) but it also slightly decreases the volume of the hulls. The extra hulls provide for this slight loss in volume. Before using, you should remove a quantity of hulls, and experiment to find your preferred volume.

     The other important feature is the guarantee. Since people’s individual comfort requirements vary so widely, it is actually possible that some may find buckwheat pillows not to there liking. This satisfaction money back guarantee needs to be long enough for anyone to give their pillow a thorough trial, so that they do not feel rushed in getting used to their new pillow, because they are substantially different than a conventional foam or feather pillow. Some, in spite of all their advantages, still prefer a conventional pillow. A quality merchant will gladly refund the purchase price upon return of the pillow. This only makes sense, because the last thing any merchant needs, is a dissatisfied customer. Look for a full year satisfaction money back guarantee.

     So, before the prices start going up, buy your quality buckwheat pillows and find out what all the excitement is about.

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     Buckwheat pillows have the advantage over conventional foam and feather pillows in every category I can think of, but I feel there is one particular benefit that really outshines all the rest. That is the ability to give each and every person the ability to customize the volume of filling to suit there own particular comfort level.

     Believe me, this volume preference varies all over the place. I have actually known of several people who prefer them to remain fully filled, just as they come out of the box. Not me. I like only about 1/3 of the hulls to remain in the pillow. These two examples are the extremes, I would say. Most people like them somewhere in between these two volumes.

     My main point of this post is to make sure that you don’t ignore this built in advantage. At a yard sale this summer I saw two very new looking buckwheat pillows for sale at a very reasonable price. I asked the seller why they were selling them. She said that she had bought them from a TV vendor, and that they weren’t in the least comfortable, like advertised.

     I asked her if she had tried using them with varying amounts of hulls in them. She looked very surprised, and asked why she should do that. I told her that I sell them, and that hardly anyone would want to sleep on them like that. I showed her the zipper in the pillow, which she wasn’t even aware of.

     She thanked me for explaining that advantage, and said she would try experimenting with that feature. I noticed they were not included in the yard sale the next day. I suspect she probably didn’t read the directions.

     I hadn’t sold those pillows, but I suspect that instructions to that effect probably were included at some point in the transaction. So if you, or anyone you know, is sleeping on a buckwheat pillow without taking advantage of the adjustable comfort level feature built into any quality buckwheat pillow, the degree of malleability is pretty much zero, if some of the hulls are not removed before using.

     Experiment. As I indicated before, everyone’s comfort level is different. You have to try different amounts of filling to find out what you like. Once you’ve found your comfort level, it will be a marriage made in bed for you and your buckwheat pillow. Never the twain will part.

     A BUCKWHEAT PILLOW TRUMPS RAW MEAT. Now that’s an odd title for a blog post. But I want to make an analogy between  comparing a modern buckwheat pillow with a conventional foam or feather pillow, vs a case of comparing a fine roast with a piece or raw meet.

     Do you see where I’m going with this?

     Well, maybe not – yet.

     But stick with me on this.

     Eons ago, people ate their meat raw. Thought it was just great stuff.

     But then one day there was a devastating fire, and some caveman accidently stuck his fingers into a smoking hot wooly mammoth that had gotten killed in the blaze. He reactively stuck his fingers into his mouth to cool them off, and simultaneously let out a new sounding grunt that expressed a combination of an expletive at the pain he felt, and an expression of pleasure at the wonderful new taste he experienced.

     That constitutes the case of the fine roast vs the raw meat. The fine roast won.

     Now admittedly, maybe I’m making a bit of a stretch here, but hopefully, you’ll get my point. Everyone is so complacent with sleeping on their conventional foam or feather pillows, just as the cavemen were complacent with eating their raw meat, until they got their first taste of roasted meat. 

    If you’ve never experienced sleeping on a buckwheat pillow, you’re in for a pleasant surprise like the caveman was with his first taste of roasted meat, except your experience won’t be tempered with the pain from the hot meat as was the caveman’s.

     So, get with the program. The timing couldn’t be better, because to celebrate my upcoming 71st birthday, I’m giving away a discount coupon good on all my products. But hurry, – the coupon expires on midnight of Oct. 27th, my birthday. Just click here and it will take you to get your discount coupon. Just type the code # given you on your discount coupon onto your order form to get the discount.