Articles ~ How healthy is your bed?

Considering the amount of time we spend in our beds it is interesting the scant attention we pay to them. Yes, you might change and clean the sheets and pillowcases regularly but what about the pillows themselves and the mattress?

For those that suffer from asthma and are allergic to house-dust mite, or rather a protein in its dung pellets, it is important that the pillows themselves are non-allergenic or cleansed regularly. House-dust mites live off our dead skin which we shed regularly at about 500gm per year into our clothes and bedding. It is estimated that 1/10th of the weight of a pillow can be made up of old human skin, mould, dead and live mites and their droppings Personally, I think you should have new pillows every year – they aren’t that expensive. The new lower temperature washers do not destroy the house-dust mite – they may even enjoy the nice cleansing shower!

House-dust mites also like the warm humid atmosphere of our beds. We sweat about 1/2 pt of fluid a night and this soaks into our mattress. So what? Well, considering the recent work on patterning of water by Dr Emoto, this water will be patterned by what goes on in the bed – particularly our emotions. So you are in fact sleeping in an ‘emotional sewer’. Our recommendation is to ‘cleanse’ the bed regularly. This can be done energetically with visualisation, if you are good at that kind of thing, or by using an essence. We recommend the Alaskan Flower Essence spray – ‘Purification’, which can be purchased from Universal Essences. This is particularly important for children after a nightmare or if you have had a row. You can use other sprays such as Calling All Angels to ensure a peaceful night’s sleep or the Findhorn Essence, ‘Sacred Space’.

It is at night that the repair and regeneration of our cells takes place, i.e. healing. So the bed is an important place for therapists to consider for their clients. Rolf Gordon, of the Dulwich Health Society, has written a book called ‘Are you Sleeping in a Safe Place?’ This considers the impact of geopathic stress or distorted earth energies, on our bodies. Like stress in general, geopathic stress is but another stressor that adds to our stress load. However, it may also interfere with our sleep patterns and the production of melatonin which occurs mainly at night. Melatonin is known to be important for the functioning of our immune system and also is anti-proliferative so may be important in the control of cancer. If your bed is situated in a geopathic stress area you may find that you are constantly tired or have chronic health problems which do not respond to treatment.

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References: Masaru Emoto: www.hado.net; Rolf Gordon: www.rolfgordon.co.uk; Universal Essences t: 0870 0620 206
Article originally published in Lynne Booth’s VRT Newsletter.