Buckwheat Pillows

Blissful Sleep

Do you ever get up in the morning thinking, “I just wish I knew a way to get a really good night’s sleep”? You are not alone. Maybe I can give you a few pointers on accomplishing this. There are many things that can improve our ability to sleep – Some pretty easy and simple, and some more involved. Hopefully some combination of these will do the trick, but let’s start with the simple and easy first.

First, most people fall asleep more easily if there is no TV or radio playing (but not necessarily)……an hour or so before going to bed, try to wind down by not thinking about problems or controversial issues……upon retiring breath deeply and slowly, thus slowing down your pulse and lowering your blood pressure……sleep in a room a little on the cool side……do not overeat, and do not eat for several hours before going to bed……do not indulge in caffeine, alcohol, or cigarettes in the 2 – 3 hours before retiring……try playing some soft, dreamy music (if the first suggestion doesn’t work).

All these suggestions involve some lifestyle changes, and we as humans tend to resist changes. The changes themselves may present a deterrent to falling asleep. Also, falling asleep is only one part of the problem. The other part is staying asleep. So while all of the suggested solutions above are viable, you may find you still need additional help

One of the most helpful sleep remedies I know of is one that few people are aware of, but they have been in use in the orient for over 2000 years, and that is the buckwheat hull pillow.

A quality buckwheat pillow is simply a pillow filled with organic buckwheat hulls which have been triple vacuumed to remove any traces of buckwheat flour from the hulls. These hulls have two unique characteristics. One is to allow air to circulate through the pillow, cooling the pillow. The other is their capability to adapt to the contour of your spine in the head and neck area, and provide support to that curvature, while still allowing you to effortlessly change your position. I call it permeability. It is difficult to explain or envision, but very effective in providing sound, very relaxing sleep. There is one very important feature to look for in a buckwheat pillow, and that is a neatly concealed nylon zipper.

Everyone has a slightly different requirement in regard to the loft and permeability of their buckwheat pillow. That’s where the zipper comes in. It lets you adjust the volume of hulls in the pillow, which determines the loft and permeability. These pillows are truly amazing in the degree of comfort they provide, whether or not you are having trouble sleeping.They are the only pillow you can adjust to your own exact comfort zone.

They’re also very economical. They cost about the same as a quality ordinary feather or foam pillow, which should be replaced about every six months, according to the experts, due do their susceptibility to dust mite infestations. Buckwheat pillows are not subject to that infestation problem, and last from ten to fifteen years, so they save you a substantial amount of money.

Hopefully, one or more of these suggestions will resolve your quest for achieving a good night’s sleep. If not, I would recommend that you seek professional medical help, as you may have a serious problem which would warrent medical intervention. But here’s hoping that some of these suggestions provide you a good night’s sleep every night. Sleep tight.

The answer to this question is different for each person, and therein lies one of the biggest advantages that a buckwheat pillow has over every other kind of pillow. You can use as an example the advertisements of the Select-a-number bed, where the wife may say “My sleep number is 38, but my husband”s number is 80. He likes a much firmer mattress.”

We’re each individuals, and with ordinary pillows and mattresses, people have to compromise, which means neither person is truly comfortable. You’re both somewhere in between your individual comfort zones. With a mattress you’re dealing only with firmness, while with a buckwheat pillow , you’re concerned with malleability and loft (height or thickness) of the pillow.

Incidentally, the sleep number type bed or mattress is an ideal companion to the buckwheat pillows. They compliment each other well.

To find your individual answer to the question of how full your buckwheat pillow should be, you simply unzip the zippered end and pour some of the hulls out, and see how it suits you. Sleep on it overnight with several different volumes, and you’ll soon discover what is most comfortable for you. As you become more accustomed to your pillow, you may want to do some fine tuning down the road. This attribute is just one of several that make the buckwheat pillow the ultimate in sleeping comfort.

In these tough economic times, sometimes we need to pamper or reward ourselves occasionally just to keep our spirits up and take our minds off our worries and to keep from getting depressed. The only problem, then, is that we feel guilty for having spent the money for a fancy meal, or whatever it was that we bought with which to reward ourselves.

 We probably even feel uncomfortable because we ate too much, and so the rewarding feeling that we were seeking is awfully short lived, and sometimes even seems to turn around and make us feel more miserable than we would have felt if we hadn’t even tried to pick up our spirits.

Well, I have a really good solution to this conundrum. You just go buy yourself a quality buckwheat pillow for about the same price as that of a fancy self-rewarding meal at a good restaurant, and you will have provided yourself with a terrific pick-me-up reward for each and every night for the next 10 or 15 years without spending another cent. If saving all that money and getting all those daily (nightly) rewards doesn’t boost your morale, then I give up. Am I a genius or what?

Is sleep over rated? Some people think so. They consider sleep time to be merely wasted time – time that would be better spent doing something useful, like working or partying.

However, the scientific evidence is to the contrary. It documents that quality REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is indeed very important to our well being, health, and, yes, productivity.

The Harvard Medical School lists 6 reasons not to skimp on sleep. Without going into the details, they involve : 1 – Learning and memory, 2 – Metabolism and weight, 3 – Safety, 4 – Mood, 5 -Cardiovascular health, and 6 – Disease, including immune function and cancer resistance.

My point? Anything that will help us get more quality REM sleep is important, as there is no 1 answer to the problem of insomnia. The answers seem to be a combination of sleep inducing factors.

I would submit to you, that one of the most often overlooked remedies to sleeplessness is a pillow that is really conducive to sound, blissful , sleep. There is only one pillow that meets every requirement for promoting really sound sleep, and that is the buckwheat pillow.

A lot of people don’t get to sleep right because of the wrong pillow.  Your pillow really makes a big difference in the quality of sleep you get.  And a good pillow can support the proper cervical curve of the head and neck.  You can choose an organic buckwheat pillow that will do all those things.

You can also use your organic buckwheat pillow under your back, hips, legs or any part of your body that needs that extra support.  These pillows are made from 100% organic buckwheat hulls and are hypoallergenic.  This pillow should last you at least 10 years so this is a good investment.  And you should really invest in a good pillow that will give you a good night’s sleep.

The buckwheat pillow is the most comfortable, relaxing, and sleep inducing pillow in existence. The firmly malleable buckwheat hulls provide the perfect combination of support and comfort.

They allow allignment of the neck and spine promoting relaxation of the muscles in that area.

People report reduction of tension headaches, snoring, high blood pressure, and neck pain, among other things. Very therapeutic and also hypo-allergenic.

The buckwheat hulls have the unique added quality of allowing air flow through them to provide ventilation, which prevents perspiration in the head and neck area while sleeping.

And  best of all, the volume of hulls in the buckwheat pillows are easily adjustable – something you can do with no other pillow. Now add some lavender or camomile aromatherapy sachets, which provide an additional soothing sleep inducement, and you do indeed have an unbeatable combination for providing you with deep, blissful, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep.

Have you noticed that we are going through tough economic times? If you haven’t, this post is not for you.

For all the rest of us, we’re pretty much tightening our belts. Most of us are already spending only what we need to – actually maybe a little less. But this is depressing, as if the economic news isn’t demoralizing enough.

We need to reward ourselves, or each other once in a while, to at least attempt to keep our spirits up. But how do we do this on the austere budgets we’re all putting ourselves on?

Buckwheat pillows to the rescue. A quality buckwheat pillow is no more expensive than a comparable quality ordinary pillow, but the benefits are incomparable. So by spending no more than you would normally, you can reward yourself, or other family members and friends, with a long lasting, genuinely uplifting reward. It’s not just a one time reward either, as the rewarding benefits will revitalize those lives every time they lay their heads upon those buckwheat pillows.

So now is the perfect time to reward yourself, or your friends and family, without breaking your hard time budget, with a buckwheat pillow.

Only you can answer that, but I can give you some information and guidelines to follow. First, let me say that ideally, most people should have more than one buckwheat pillow, but the guidelines apply whether you get 1 or 2 or 5 buckwheat pillows.

As I see it, there are three categories of buckwheat pillows. First, and most relevant to this discourse, are the bed pillows. Secondly, I lump neck pillows and travel pillows into one category. And thirdly are the specialty buckwheat pillows, in which I include body pillows, mattress pads, therapeutic pillows, and a variety of other buckwheat pillows for very specific uses and situations. I am not going to delve into this third category, as they would mostly be sought after by those who have  experienced the therapeutic advantages of buckwheat pillows and already have very specific ideas on their use. Often these are being prescribed by their doctors, and I do not presume to be knowledgeable in these areas.

As to category one, bed pillows, the choice here is determined by your bed size, and whether you sleep alone, or with a bed pardner. If you want buckwheat pillows for 2, you simply buy 2 king size pillows (16″ x 34″) for a king size bed, 2 queen size pillows (20″ x 26″) for a queen size bed, or 2 standard size pillows (18″ x 24″) for a standard full size bed. For a twin bed, the usual size is a twin bed pillow (16″ x 19″). However, if you always sleep alone, then feel free to buy whichever size buckwheat pillow you find most comfortable, which probably translates into the size of ordinary bed pillow that you are used to. However, the most ideal solution would be if you could try a couple of different sizes of buckwheat pillow first. Keep in mind that the most important determinant of your comfort with a buckwheat pillow , is by far, the volume, or content of buckwheat hull filling, as this is what determines the malleability (the most therapeutic advantage affecting comfort) of your buckwheat pillow, and is fully adjustable.

As to category two, I would think the travel style pillow (11″ x 15″) has a wider diversity of use than the neck pillow, as it works well as both a supplement to a bed pillow or a true travel pillow to be used on auto, plane, bus trips etc., but the neck pillow provides a more complete support all the way around the neck, again in both situations noted above. I guess it boils down to a personal choice and what type of support you most need.