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Did you know that one of the most effective methods of torture is sleep deprivation? If you forcibly keep your prisoner awake, by means of bright lights or loud noises or force them to say alert in order to maintain their safety somehow. Within a few days, your prisoner will become completely disorientated and willing to deliver up whatever is being demanded.
And this is one of the methods that they use to identify witches in 16th century Scotland, for example, After 5 days or so, those poor women would be so massively confused and Anne. They'd be suffering hallucinations. And in that state, they could be induced to admit practically anything. And of course once they admitted that they were a witch, that was the end, they would then be publicly burned at the stake.
We all know that the body needs food, water, and air to survive, but also it cannot survive without sufficient sleep. Numerous body systems will not function normally. Communication with the brain drops right off. And the quality of life can be dramatically lowered. And when we're ill, sleep is very often the best remedy, all you need to do is lie flat or, sitting, whatever your preferred position is, but just retire from life and sleep.
And the body is well, it has a remarkable capacity for healing itself if you just give it a chance to do so. Just sleep, plenty of hydration, Anne peace and quiet will improve, it'll even cure a huge number of common ailments Shakespeare reminds us in Macbeth, sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care. It's the chief nourisher in life's feast. Lack of sleep also causes memory issues Anne It leads to trouble with reasoning and concentration, so your work will be affected.
Mood changes occur. And problems such as anxiety and depression or just plain bad temper make themselves felt. Being drowsy can lead to accidents. If you're familiar with driving long distances on certain roads in England, there are signs there saying, tiredness, kills, take a break. Tiredness, long term tiredness, will weaken your immune system because antibodies and cytokines are produced during sleep.
And without these, resistance to common bugs, just like cold and flu, for example, is diminished lack of sleep will also lead to increase in blood sugar levels, which will raise your risk of succumbing to type 2 diabetes Anne weight gain therefore will occur because leptin, which is the chemical that signals to your body, that's enough. I'm full. Stop eating and so on. Is no longer produced. And instead, an alternative chemical called graylin, is produced.
I would imagine both of those come from the pancreas. I'm not certain, but when your grayling levels are raised, your appetite is stimulated, and we tend in this fast moving society to reach for junk food, chocolate bars, salty snacks, that kind of thing. So people who are stressed, they're it's a vicious cycle, they're not sleeping properly, they're eating junk, their body, would have trouble coping under good circumstances, but in bad circumstances, it's like a perfect storm.
Some people even wake up mid sleep and crave more food, although they're not really sleepy. Sorry. I mean, they're not really hungry. Sleep deprivation can cause balance issues even Anne risk of heart disease, low sex drive, of course, and also high blood pressure. And strangely, we feel we need to apologize for needing a full quota of sleep.
I I've been teased times many for refusing to go out on the lash with friends when they want to go out, enjoying themselves late into the night Anne these are usually occurrences when we're away from home doing some kind of training course. I'm sorry. I need my sleep because I've got to be up and fresh and compliment us the following morning. Experts recommend that we have 7 to 7 a half hours sleep regularly.
And of course, it's much easier to set up a sleep pattern if you're in the habit of going to bed at roughly the same time, getting up at roughly the same time every morning, which, of course, we tend to do if we have to show up at work at a particular time, but very often that bit is inflexible, but the time that we take ourselves to bed at night, can be quite elastic.
Also, you get into a habit So it's not a great idea to go to bed relatively early or shall I say at a civilized time during the week, and then stay up super late on Friday Saturday, and sleep in super late on Saturday Sunday Corbin, and then expect your body to adapt come Monday.
This is, a reason for a lot of absenteeism on Mondays because people either feel so terrible when they wake up or they've, they've sort of extended the weekend and had a little bit too much to drink, for example, on Sunday night, and then they actually can't in with our sleeping habits and lack of regularity, many of us are operating well below the level of required sleep.
And therefore, we're experiencing frequent yawning irritability, fatigue during the daytime, Anne you know that energy slump that people often feel half an hour after lunch, they call it the carb coma because I suppose the majority of people have sandwiches for lunch, but regardless of what you're eating for lunch, very often, a kind of a reluctance to do very much at all will set in about half an hour after the lunch hour comes to an end.
Personally, I get, or at least I used to get an energy slump at about 5 o'clock. But I have learned to manage that by doing something which is relatively active and doesn't involve any brain power.
This is since I've been working at home, no longer tied to an office So one of the problems that, people increase in intensity is When they're feeling tired during the day, they mistake it maybe for boredom, but they address the problem with stimulance such as coffee or carbonated energy drinks, there's, I believe, massive popularity of this drink red bull. I'm not advertising, but you know the stuff I mean. It's got a lot of caffeine in it.
Keeps people awake Anne also makes them feel energized. I have to say, I've actually never tried it. But it delivers, I'm told, a kind of a short lived, lifting one's spirits. Now the problem with this is that although the immediate boost that feels so good, it seems to wear off Anne we accept that, It doesn't mean that the caffeine will have left our system by the time we go to bed. And that can, even many hours later, stop us from dropping off to sleep.
Another way this can manifest is we do drop off to sleep but wake up a few hours later Anne then find that we can't sleep for the rest of the night. And many people imagine that they can cope with caffeine simply because they Anne to fall asleep, and they don't connect the caffeine that they had with the fact that they're waking up early, like maybe an hour or 2 hours before they have to get up, especially if they're worried about an alarm clock.
And even if you're not tied to an alarm clock, I mean, in my case, I tend to wake up at the same time every morning because I've trained myself to do it. And if I Anne to wake up an hour earlier than intended, I'm quite annoyed. I get up anyway, but it means I've missed out on an hour of sleep that I would have liked to have. Anne it's usually my own fault. I can generally trace it back to something, unhealthy that I did the day before.
Margaret Thatcher famously required only 4 hours sleep, or so it was said, and it became part of her iron lady, famous reputation. However, long after she had passed on, Details were published by the National Archives. I believe that was in 2018. Which suggest that she will have made up for it to an extent because she was able to nap in her chauffeur driven car as she was buried all around the country.
PowerNaps, of course, have become hugely popular in recent years, but, you know, they're, a a pretty good idea The thing is you're not supposed to wake yourself up with an alarm. So if you're having a power nap before, say, an important meeting, you could end up with egg on your face. So I use an alarm. In fact, I use an alarm to stop meditating as well.
Because, you know, I have a schedule Anne I could stay meditating for way longer than intended because, well, I suppose it's a matter of training, but I haven't managed with the meditation to, sort of crack the, the 20 minute habit really successfully. I don't quite trust myself.
So, yes, even though, PowerNAF is a a relatively new addition to our vocabulary, I'm aware that short afternoon naps have been around, well, for centuries, Winston Churchill, Napoleon, and Thomas Edison were, well documented for embracing this habit. And Thomas Edison also has this well, he's famous for saying that, you know, the famous story that he made 9999 attempts to produce a light bulb before he actually cracked it and managed to get it right.
And he's famous for saying, well, I I didn't fail 9000 Anne odd times. I just established 9999 ways of doing it the wrong way or doing it unsuccessfully. He used to get his inspiration from sitting in a warm room in front of the fire, just dropping off to sleep, but he would hold a ball in his, left and right hand and as he was just dropping off to sleep, the ball would fall and wake him up. But he recognized that a lot of his inspiration came during that time between being awake and sleeping.
And we now know because we've learned so much about brainwaves that this is the theta brainwave state. Where you are in the the kind of no man's land between alpha, wakefulness, and delta, which is sleep. Sleep is a very slow rate, then theater is a little bit faster Anne alpha is our waking state. Corbin closing, I just want to summarize and say, we look after our body in terms of what food we take Anne we take care to hydrate, but don't forget sleep.
Sleep is really critical if you want to function at your optimal, which most of us do, even if we don't have a job of work to do or a sort of a persona to present to other people, sleep is critical. Count up how many hours you're getting. And if you're getting less than about 7 a half, Just take steps to get a bit more and see how your life improves.
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