Self-help for improved sleep + dream journaling = a better life.
The drip, drip, drip of a faucet keeping you awake is bad enough. But when the dripping is coming from your head and armpits it has to be worse. Profuse sleep sweating has to be one of the most troubling sleeping problems there are. Oftentimes it defies easy explanation. In extreme cases, the individual wakes up feeling like someone…
Your mind is pretty much behaving like a game of Jenga. Instead of wooden blocks, however, it’s one worry after another that’s stacking up. Up, up, up, the tower of worries go until they eventually come crashing down. It’s a bad kind of creativity. Instead of coming up with interesting ideas, you’re coming up with…
Crisp rice cereal combined with dried cherries makes for a natural sedating combination that can help you get some shuteye. When eating it in moderation, the rice cereal provides a satiating slow-burning fuel. The dried cherries are a natural source of melatonin. The milk finishes off with some essential minerals. It’s a lot more tasty…
“Dirty jobs” and TV’s Mike Rowe have become synonomous over the last 15-plus years. If you’ve flipped through cable TV channels sometime during that time you’ve probably seen Rowe doing all kinds of things. He’s mucked out the bottom of a giant chicken coop. He’s cleaned cow skulls. He’s collected vomit from many different animals.…
Why is love bombing called what it is? Good question! If you’ve ever seen the resulting effects of one, the answer will be obvious. For now, realize that if actual bombs were typically tactically used against a single person instead of a group, love bombing might be called “love sniping.” In a love bombing, someone…
Q: If a man or a woman has questions and they want answers, what do they do? A: There are several things they might do. They could get on the Internet and start searching. They could go to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or one of the other search engines. They could go to the library and…
Some supermarkets have dozens of varieties of trail mix these days. It wasn’t always this way. The creation of and access to all these concoctions is a relatively recent innovation, at least compared to how long people have been eating it. As recent as the 1970s and 80s, it wasn’t that way. You mostly had to make your…
It’s 2 a.m. You don’t have to be up until 6:30 a.m. You figure that’s four long hours away plus 30 minutes. If this goes on for the whole time, what, you wonder, are you supposed to do with yourself until then? This sucks! You’re irritated! You may or may not be able to get…
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle In the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon compares the events of life to seasons. It’s a profound analogy that has stood the test of time. It’s been the basis for a hit song (Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds). It’s also been…
On June 13th, Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Zack Greinke didn’t allow a single Washington National player to reach base — until the seventh inning. If he had kept every opposing player off the bases until the ninth inning, it would have been what’s known as a “perfect game.” The seventh inning is about 3/4ths of the…