Someone relieve the pressure!!

Here's something new I learned about sleep last night....in our early stages of sleep our body will automatically move to help release pressure without you even knowing it. It's like being in an uncomfortable chair, you squirm and twist until you are comfortable. That's how your body relieves pressure. And I know we all know about relieving pressure. First thing I do when I get home (to my husbands great disappointment) is take off my jeans to put on my yoga pants, pressure in the tummy....gone! After walking around in shoes all day long, what's the first we do?...take off our shoes....again, relieving pressure.  It feels good, doesn't it? But when we are in our REM sleep, you are paralyzed and you can't move involuntarily. It's a good thing really, because otherwise we would act out physically in our dreams and that wouldn't be good.  But this is where your mattress comes into play. When you wake up and your arms are all tingly or your legs have "fallen asleep", its because your mattress created pressure on your body in REM sleep and you couldn't move involuntarily.  So now you know!  When making your mattress selection make sure you choose one with pressure relieving technologies.  

One bed you can try is a latex bed. (the one we have in our San Diego showroom is by (Pure LatexBliss) Our general manager, Christina, sleeps on a latex bed which incorporates a bottomless pressure release design, the gold standard of pressure release.  It's like you're sleeping in space or as Christina puts it on a cloud.  She got her bed as a birthday present a few months ago and its the best present she's ever got.  Before her latex bed she used to wake up with a completely "dead" right side and strange tingles in her arm. Since getting the bed she now wake's up completely relaxed, with no pain and no tension.  Makes it even harder to get out of bed in the mornings!