I was fascinated by the NY Times' two recent articles on
sleep. One is about how to get more of it
so you'll be more beautiful, featuring spas, sleep products and a barely
perceptible nod to useful skills like meditation and relaxation. The companion
piece is about makeup to hide the ravages of sleeplessness. Really?
Sleep deprivation causes irritability, relationship
issues, depression, anxiety, weight gain, medical problems, cognitive deficits,
impaired
work performance, car crashes and a host of other ills beyond the toll it
takes on physical beauty. Makeup is not going to solve these problems.
Clouding the issue by suggesting a cosmetic fix, spa
products or pills, ignores the fact that sleep problems are often easily
remedied without medication or costly solutions.
Since it's summer, why not send yourself to sleep camp? In
sleep camp you have daily activities, just like volleyball and swimming in summer
camp. If you despised summer camp you can think of it more like soccer or
tennis camp where you're trying to improve a skill set and you know it's going
to take dedication, practice, tweaking and repetition.
Here's how sleep camp works:
1. Start a sleep
journal.
Read more here...
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