Your Personal Sleep Pillow

Your Personal Sleep Pillow

Your personal sleep pillow is an extremely important factor in enabling sleep. This is the one pillow you will use for sleeping only.

An ideal sleep pillow must have these properties:

• Be made of all-natural material so your head can breathe without the clammy feeling caused by foam-filled or other synthetic materials and covers used to make many of the so-called ideal sleep pillows (which are far from ideal as you will see)
• Be adjustable for your unique head and neck size and shape and preferred sleep position

Steer away from the many synthetic and orthopedic sleep pillows marketed widely on TV, some of which require you to sleep on your back.I recommend traditional natural buckwheat hull pillows, used by the Japanese for centuries. This type of pillow has become quite popular in the west because of its unique features.

Buckwheat hulls are left over after the buckwheat seed has been removed for food consumption (soba noodles, anybody?). The hulls are sturdy, about the size of the small nail of your pinkie finger.

Their concave shape has the wonderful benefit of locking the hulls together when pressure is applied and releasing once the pressure is gone, making them infinitely easy to adjust to your head.

So, with thousands of hulls in a pillow, you can instantly shape the pillow to your preference. The weight of your neck and head will cause it to hold its shape while you sleep.

It’s the ideal pillow: lightweight, breathable, malleable, hypoallergenic and adjusts instantly to the shape of your neck and head.

More information on buckwheat hull pillows can be found in Chapter 4 of the book Sleep Secrets.