What Your Body’s Trying To Tell You When You Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night

If you’re regularly waking up around the same time each night, don’t ignore your body’s signals. Depending on when you’re roused from sleep, the organs in your body are trying to communicate with you.

Here’s what it means when you wake up during the night:

Trouble falling asleep between 9 PM and 10 PM: You’re stressed.
When you lay your head down to rest, thoughts may be cluttering your mind that prevent you from getting a full night’s rest. It’s recommended to combat this by practicing nightly meditation. Meditation allows your body to enter into a state of peace and serenity, helping you to wind down from a stressful day. You can start by listening to a half-hour of calming music before bed. This helps to slow down your brain activity in preparation for a long night of rest.

Waking Between 11 PM And 1 AM: You’re experiencing emotional disappointment. 
When the gallbladder is balanced, we feel happy and content. But if you’re experiencing a lack of passion, problems with decision-making, or timidness, your gallbladder is out of sync.

Waking Between 1 AM and 3 AM: You’re angry.
Anger is associated with the liver. When we have feelings of resentment that go unexpressed, they build up over time in the liver. So when you try to sleep through the night, your body reminds you of this nagging sensation night after night. In order to overcome this, it’s important to recognize your need to express emotion. Holding it in leads to a constant heavy burden that will resurface at night during resting periods.

Waking Between 3 AM and 5 AM: A Higher Power is trying to tell you something.
This is the time when the lungs are most active. If you’re going through a difficult time in your life and can’t seem to overcome the grip it has on you, you may do well to explore the possibility of a higher power speaking to you. When you wake up during this time, take a moment to relax, breathe, and pray through the saddened moment.

Waking Between 5AM and 7 AM: You have emotional blocks.
When you wake up during the night at this time, your intestine is overactive. Troublesome experiences can lead to drawing inward and relying on yourself, rather than risk it all to get hurt again. If you have trouble opening up to other people or can’t let things go, you may have an imbalance in the large intestine.