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Things Are Good: Tired? Try These Restful Solutions
Getting enough sleep but still feeling tired? Try taking a rest. Physician Saundra Dalton-Smith MD has identified seven types of rest everyone needs, and some people need more of a certain kind of rest. What type of rest that helps you depends entirely on your lifestyle and working conditions. The
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: 4 TIPS FOR GETTING BETTER SLEEP DURING TIMES OF GRIEF
Grief is part of the caregiving experience and when a loved one passes away, unbearable sadness and loneliness can overwhelm. Today, I am happy to host this guest post by writer and widow, Sara Bailey who offers some strategies to help you sleep if you are grieving. If you are
Continue readingThings Are Good: Have Problem? Sleep on it
When confronting a problem, or looking for creative inspiration, people get told “to sleep on it”. This turns out to be useful advice not just because it’s based on years of smart people saying that, but also because modern neuroscience research is proving it to be true. We can benefit
Continue readingThings Are Good: Start School Later so Students can Sleep in
Sleep and teenagers go together better than slicing and bread. Every teenager already knows that school starts early and it’s rather cruel to make them learn before they brains are ready to do so. Yet, former teenagers force teens out of bed and kick them out the door too early.
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Heavy Blanket Helps People with Anxiety and Insomnia
A good nights sleep can make a world of difference to one’s health, getting that sleep can be hard though. A simple solution can help those who need more slumber: a heavy blanket. Sleeping under a weighted blanket kind of acts like a hug for your whole body – and
Continue readingcartoon life: The old and the young
One is 23. One is 19. Something I rarely do is paint from a photo, but this scene was likely going to change quickly. So, yes, I traced over the photo for the figure and forms, otherwise completely digitally hand painted free form. No filters, no sampling.Filed under: art Tagged: boy, Cat, couch, napping, sleep
Things Are Good: Mindfulness Meditation Effective in Improving Sleep
Mindfulness meditation is already pretty great, and it keeps getting better! Not only can it help you go amongst your day in a more thoughtful, productive, focussed manner, it can even help you sleep! A six week trial of getting people who had trouble sleeping to mediate proved to help
Continue readingcartoon life: What dogs do best
Filed under: art Tagged: dog, sleep, stop bugging me
Continue readingThings Are Good: Lucid Dreamers Demonstrate Better Awareness When Awake
People who can lucid dream are able to transfer skills acquired for lucid dreaming into the waking world. In fact, this skill makes lucid dreamers more aware and cognizant than non-lucid dreamers. Lucid dreaming is essentially the ability to be aware of and in some cases manipulate dreams as they
Continue readingcartoon life: Asleep. A dream.
Our older tuxedo. He goes outside, even in this weather. He is about 16 or 17 years old now. He is sleeping in this one. Really. Nice composite image built from sketches in Paper, filtered in Popsicolor. Composited, layered and painted some more in Procreate. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Bees are Great for Honey and Sleep
Bees are wonderful little beings that spread pollen to places that need it and, as a bonus they create delicious honey. It turns out that a spoonful of honey can help you sleep! Suffering from yet another poor night’s sleep? Then how about trying some local beekeeper’s honey for a
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ask General Kang: How much time should I be spending on Social Media every day?
None. Next question. No, seriously, what is the right amount? It depends. Do you have other things to do? Like, I don’t know, a job? Let’s assume yes, and let’s assume it’s about eight hours a day. Okay, so that … Continue reading →
Continue readingwRanter.com: Adventures in parenting, Part 2: Longing for some sleep
I’m writing this post while in a bit of a haze. Actually, I’ve written all the posts on this site while in a bit of a haze. So if you find any typos, please excuse them, because I’m a dad of longstanding. Let me explain. All the books and advice on
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