Dream Journaling Hobby, Sleep, Science, Applied Faith
There’s no good way to measure the direct effects of “self-care.” There are indirect measurements, like average blood pressure, cholesterol level, and other things like that. Beyond that, there’s only you and the way you feel. You’re obligated to do it alone; by yourself. Everyone else is too. It suffers from a lack of support.…
You don’t always have to ingest or inject some substance to take medicine. Your body, wonderful living “machine” that it is, is like a compounding pharmacist. It makes a lot of its own. People don’t think of their body making its own medicine, but it does every hour of every day of every year. Your…
The drip, drip, drip of a faucet keeping you awake is bad enough. When the dripping is coming from your head, back, and armpits into your sheets, it has to be worse. Profuse night sweats have to be one of the most troubling sleeping problems there are. Night sweats can defy easy explanation In extreme cases…
When someone thinks of the health effects of missing sleep, they don’t always think of hormone problems. Perhaps they should. I once knew a man who impressed me. He was stronger, tougher and smarter (in some ways) than me. We’ll call him Alvin. Alvin managed to hold two demanding full-time jobs for several months. For…
Here’s a truism for you: people love simple solutions. If ‘x’ is a problem, take ‘y.’ There. Done. Problem fixed. (Make a wiping motion with your hands.) Hopefully. Simple solutions don’t take much work, don’t call for much change and don’t always cost much — that’s what makes them simple! Unfortunately, simple solutions often create…