Because learning about your brain and sleep can be fun . . .
Did you break your diet? It can be hard to keep a diet, especially when foods that tempt you to break it surround you. You’ve got to have some wins sometime. If you don’t, you can start to feel like a loser, like being at the weight you want to be at is impossible. If…
Discover the understanding and essential part of self-growth by embracing your shadow self. Uncover hidden aspects of your personality. Explore the power of shadow work, and experience transformative healing and personal development. Shadow work is a practice that delves into the depths of our psyche, shedding light on the parts we often ignore or suppress.…
Dreams are fun but it’s best to acknowledge it and not to get stuck on that aspect. It’s cool when you do something like holding seven men at gunpoint in your dreams. Or when you save a life. Or when you ride a horse really fast. Unfortunately, the long-term dream journaler pseudonymously named “Barb Sanders”…
Going to Spain and Portugal two years ago was relaxing. The environment was peaceful. That’s not to say those two countries are peaceful all the time. Going back in their history, the Spanish Civil War was anything but. Neither was the Reconquista! That’s not to say they don’t have their own problems; every place does.…
You don’t have to sit cross-legged on a cushion in the middle of a room with a candle burning in front of you to meditate. Meditation doesn’t have to be this complicated/inconvenient. If you do all that, you’re wasting time. Dream Focus provides a way to get the benefits of meditation without the inconvenience. What…
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…
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…
Not all of the reasons are related to sleep, but improved sleep is one big reason Wouldn’t it be great if living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms straightened out themselves? Rooms never do that outside of the old Bewitched TV show or other ones with characters that are witches. That’s kind of what people are going…
Memory consolidation is a key biochemical and biomechanical process in forming the ideas by which you live your life. An idea takes an interesting path through sleep toward ultimate expression. Sleep is essential for memory consolidation, the process by which the brain transfers short-term memories into long-term memories. In memory consolidation, the brain undergoes structural…
A dream about quitting shows how easy it is, yet not necessarily simple. Quitting anything seems easy. Throw the keys (or whatever) down dramatically and say, “That’s it! I quit.” A recent dream showed how quitting wasn’t that way at all. The message: “Don’t give up!” Any dream where you dream about quitting something deserves…