Which side of the head is good to face when sleeping?
If the human body is likened to a mobile phone, sleep is equivalent to the process of charging the mobile phone, the human energy is limited, after a busy day, you need to sleep to allow the body to repair itself and replenish physical strength. People in this life, need to spend one-third of the time on sleep, only sleep well, sleep quality is high, the remaining two-thirds of life can live a better quality. However, there are countless people with poor sleep quality in today’s society, and how to improve the quality of sleep has become one of the most concerned topics.
Sleep is affected by a variety of factors, and the quality of sleep can only be improved by controlling the factors that affect sleep. In the many factors affecting the quality of sleep, pillow height, bedroom environment, bedtime habits, bedding hygiene, etc. is more concerned about, in fact, there is a factor – body orientation, will also affect the quality of sleep. About sleep orientation, there is a saying: “sleep not north”, meaning that the head should not face the north, there is also a saying that “sleep can not head towards the west”, meaning that it can not face the west, then these sayings in the end believable and unbelievable? Sleeping head should face which?
Is there any truth in the saying? Where should you sleep with your head facing?
The proverb “sleep not north” is very easy to understand, that is, do not sleep with your head to the north. In the past, ancient people lived in thatched roof houses, which were not windproof or warm. North, Yin also, the head is the meeting of the yang, the ancients believe that if the head is often towards the north, the head is susceptible to wind and cold, affecting the yang in the human body, but also aggravate the body’s cold, is not conducive to health.
“Sleeping can not head west”, this proverb is more intuitive, is to sleep when the head can not face the west, the ancients said that the West, that is the “Elysium”, head to sleep in the West, head towards the Elysium, the symbolism is not good, so that the head to sleep in the West is not good.
According to what the ancients said, one should not sleep with one’s head facing either west or north, but is it okay to sleep with one’s head facing east or north? What the ancients said, after all, a large part of it is superstition, from a scientific point of view, the head should sleep towards which?
From a scientific point of view, in fact, sleep can not head towards the west this more reasonable, sleep does not north this sentence seems reasonable, but in fact is superstitious, according to the scientific point of view, the head towards the south or towards the north is more reasonable, the head towards the east and towards the west is not very reasonable.
We all know that the earth is a magnetic field, the human body also has a weak magnetic field, want to sleep high quality, sleep the human body’s magnetic field to comply with the earth’s magnetic field, so that the body’s blood circulation will be smoother, sleep quality will be higher.
The Earth’s magnetic field is north-south, so when you sleep, the human body should also be facing north-south, so whether the head south or north, as long as the body to maintain the north-south orientation, in line with the magnetic field, the body’s blood circulation will be smoother, and the brain can be better sedated, so that the quality of sleep will be higher.
Although from a scientific point of view, the head towards the south or north to sleep higher, but from a practical point of view, the human body’s magnetic field is relatively weak, sleeping on the earth’s magnetic field of the human body does not produce strong interference, the impact is relatively weak, basically in a state that can be ignored, which is to say, sleeping north-south orientation is better, but if you really don’t like to sleep north-south orientation, don’t like to face south-north to sleep on the sleep, uncomfortable, the quality of sleep becomes poor, the quality of sleep. comfortable, the quality of sleep becomes very poor, then you east-west facing sleep is not impossible.
Sleeping head direction will also affect the quality of sleep, if you sleep quality has been very poor, and can not find a specific reason, the quality of sleep has not been improved, then you can try to switch the head direction, so as to improve the quality of sleep or helpful.