Balance for Busy Women: Your Health - Sleep
All I Wanna Do Is Dream:
A Balanced Life Includes Great Dreams
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
~ William C. Dement
I am not an active dreamer, or at least I do not believe I am. I am so sluggish most mornings when my alarm rings I am lucky to find my way to the shower . . . let alone remember what I was dreaming just before waking.
Yet I am fascinated by the remembrances some people relay about their dreams from the night before, or from even weeks or years ago.
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Mom Was Right - Busy Women Need Eight Hours of Sleep
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream ~ Shakespeare
According to researchers, your Mom was right . . . you need eight hours of sleep every night to maintain good health. Unfortunately, with personal and work obligations expanding and a wide variety of late night distractions, such as the Internet and cable/satellite TV, most Americans are getting about one-and-a-half fewer hours of sleep than our counterparts in 1900.
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Sleep Tip - Avoid non-prescription, over-the-counter sleeping pills.
The actual long-term effectiveness of such over-the-counter sleep aids and supplements has not been proven. Safety may also be an issue, as many antihistamine-based sleep aids may exhibit an extended duration period and can sometimes cause drowsiness.
Sleep Quote:
“That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed of all natural graces, sleep."
--Aldous Huxley
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