Today’s posting was supposed to be another profile in the Russellville Lives series but before the story train reached the station, it got derailed and T-boned an 18-wheeler flat bed truck stacked high with crates of chickens that broke open sending those cluckers flapping around all over the place while being chased by feral cats. This backup column could be a fortuitous replacement because it might save your life.
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Been having a hard time lately getting a good night’s sleep. Dr. Keith Saylor, a family member, sent me a book titled Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, PhD. If you care about your health you will drop whatever it is you’re doing and immediately hit Amazon for a copy. I’ll summarize the 339 pages for you: Next to breathing, sleeping is the second- most important thing you do. Every organ and fiber of your body suffers if you don’t get adequate sleep (eight to nine hours a night). The book’s Appendix gives twelve tips for healthy sleep that will repay you the $18 you gave Amazon.
We spend the day feeding volumes of information and scenes into our brain and then we go to sleep (if we’re lucky) and the brain organizes all that new material and routes it to its assigned location in the brain. Those who short-change Mother Nature’s sleep bank will pay a grim overdraft penalty.
My primary physician instructed me to go online and download an app titled Headspace. Those people take you through meditation exercises which you can use just prior to welcoming sleep to your bedroom. Another tip: Kill the TV two hours before bedtime. One more: Sleep with only one pillow.
So, one door closes, another door opens. Until the next posting, Put your dreams away for another day…
