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One-third of the population says they’re on a diet at any given time. Nineteen out of 20 of those individuals fail to reach their goals. What gives? Often, dieters fail to take into account the importance of sleep and exercise. Exercise can help you lose weight. It increases your metabolic rate. The body uses more…
Making sure you’re getting enough Vitamin C can improve your sleep. Too little “C” has been shown to result in poor mood and sleep. Pay close attention if you don’t like fruits and vegetables and have trouble sleeping! Vitamin C has several benefits for sleep that aren’t commonly known or often forgotten: Stress and anxiety…
However it shows up, driftwood is an interesting object to see in a dream. The meaning doesn’t really vary much. It depends on whether the driftwood refers to you (the dreamer) or to someone else. Unlike a lot of other objects, the meaning you of driftwood in a dream stays remarkably consistent. Wood is what…
Can you be your own therapist? It’s not can. It’s more like you must be your own therapist, or at least co-therapist. Even if you can find one. There’s an acute shortage of therapists and other mental health professionals, generally speaking. Being your own therapist starts the moment after you work up the awareness and…
There’s sleep, and there’s SLEEP. Sleep in lower-case letters is time spent with your eyes closed. It’s dozing off in front of the TV as a show blares on. It’s checking a box to get through to the next day. SLEEP, on the other hand, is energizing. It’s waking up and feeling much better than…
That there’s a connection between religion and sleep hygiene is not a new idea. People have been praying at bedtime since the day after forever ago! Yet it’s a connection the medical establishment doesn’t talk about in our mostly secular society. Many healthcare practitioners don’t feel comfortable addressing the issue. In a survey of 3,257…
When it comes to AIs, humans might end up replaced in many different career paths, from artist to driver, to writer. One area where we humans need not worry about replacement is dream interpretation, though several companies are offering AI-guided dream interpretation. AI’s won’t have the insight to adequately understand and interpret your dream as…
You don’t have to title your dream when you write it in your dream journal. It’s your journal. You don’t have to do anything. There’s no absolute penalty for not giving your dream a title. Stories usually have titles. An entry in a dream journal is like a little story, so it too should have…
Try to figure out why. To do that, look for clues as to why you feel about the place the way you do. It might be a profane space. So you’re somewhere with bad vibes. Are there problems and troubling things you can see with your own eyes? Is the place rundown? Are there broken…
So you’ve woken up earlier than you’ve wanted to. What you do now depends on whether it’s in the middle of the night or an hour or two before you usually wake up. Consider the other people in your house. You don’t want to interrupt their sleep. Be considerate. Put yourself in their place. If…
You could have dreamed anything at all, anything you could have imagined. Why did you dream about your everyday life? What seems like a slice-of-life dream might hold a deeper meaning. Dreams can feature crazy scenes or other ones that are fairly humdrum. Why can you have a crazy one that doesn’t seem to make…
We were lucky St. Joseph wasn’t a modern guy with the Internet when God sent him his famous warning dream. Not every technological advance is an actual advance. Small Town, Some Country In the Middle East In An Alternate History, Spring 2023 Joe wakes up to the alarm on his phone. He uses an alarm…
Passionflower is a plant with natural sedative compounds. It’s often used as a natural remedy for insomnia, taken as a supplement or tea. The Passionflower is an absolutely enchanting variety of vine flower, with beautiful, curly purple or blue petals that resemble tentacles. One type of Passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, is said to offer many benefits—like…