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howtoloseweightfastsafely · 5 years

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How To Beat Your Mental Roadblocks And Why It Can Be The Difference Between A Happy, Satisfying Life And A Sad, Fearful Existence

1. Set a specific goal

a. Write this goal down somewhere you can see it every morning when you wake up, and every night before you sleep

i. Train your thoughts to remember this goal daily and keep it in the forefront of your mind

b. Goals must include both of the following:

i. A measurable metric ("10 pounds" or "2 dress sizes")

ii. A deadline or time frame ("June 30th" or "2 weeks", preferably use both)

c. Here are some bad goals

i. "Lose 20 pounds"

ii. "Get lean"

iii. "Look hot for beach season"

d. Here are some good goals:

i. "Lose 50 pounds before beach season (June 30th)"

ii. "Drop 1 dress size in the next 2 weeks (November 25th)"

iii. "Lose 4 inches from my waist in the next 6 weeks (December 25th)"

e. Every 2 weeks or every month, review your goal and adjust it based on your progress so far

2. Understand that everybody needs a "Harajuku Moment"

a. This moment is an "an epiphany that turns a nice-to-have into a must-have." Without this tipping point, you will fail.

b. This was first popularized by Tim Ferriss in the 4 Hour Body, and it has been crucial for all major obstacles I've overcome in my life

c. Until I had the psychic shift which turned "I want to lose weight" to "I must lose weight", I never had lasting success.

3. Relax and ease your mind with meditating

a. Start with just 2 minutes a day and slowly build the habit.

b. Add 1 or 2 minutes each week, until you're up to 10-20 minutes daily.

c. This can come in the form of prayer to, or a mix of both.

4. Write a very short, simple daily journal in which you record "wins", priorities, and gratitude

a. Every evening take just 2-3 minutes and write down 3 "wins"/things that went well today.

i. This can be something major "prepared and packed all meals for the week" or something very simple like "paid my phone bill".

ii. We all deserve great things, yourself included. Let these "wins" serve as a daily reminder of the positive momentum you're making towards your dreams.

b. Also, plan out 3-5 things you want to get done throughout the day.

i. This "priorities" list makes it clear what needs to get done to reach your goals.

ii. By keeping it at a max of 5 things to do, we keep the list manageable and doable in a daily basis.

iii. Imagine how productive you would be in just 1 month if you did anywhere between 3-5 things every day in pursuit of your goals.

c. Lastly, record a very simple daily "gratitude list"

i. Basically, write the names of people you're grateful for today

ii. For me, this usually comes in the form of family, close friends, co-workers, and anybody else you feel has had an impact on you, on a certain day.

iii. Feel free to write things/material possessions or spiritual things also

On certain days, I may even write down how grateful I am for the simple things like having a roof over my head and a warm meal at night.

This is made even more clear to me from walking around lower Manhattan at 9 a.m. and seeing homeless, penniless young people my age (25 y.o) who slept on the street overnight, in a thin sleeping bag, with 30-degree temperatures outside.

iv. This is a daily reminder that whether you have just 1 person or 1 thing, or if you have 20 things to be grateful for, you're doing OK, and no matter what obstacles you're stuck with, you'll be OK.

5. If you feel out of place in the gym, repeat this simple mantra a few times to remind yourself to work hard and stop thinking that people are watching and judging you:

i. "You look amazing. No one is watching you. Keep up the good work."

6. Every weekend choose 2 meals each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Write them down in your journal or in a safe place.

a. Then head to the grocery store and buy the ingredients you need

b. Then cook the 1st set of these meals to last you 3-4 days.

c. Once these run out (usually on a Wednesday or Thursday, if you cook on Sunday), cook the 2nd set of the meals to last you til the weekend.

d. As a result, remove all barriers and unnecessary "thinking" attached to food choices.

7. Look at other "little things" in your life that take up big chunks of mental space, and hack away at the unessential. Some of my personal examples:

a. I use Mint.com to track spending, and I use CreditKarma.com to monitor my credit score.

i. Instead of constantly thinking about how much money I "need", I start by identifying weak points/unnecessary spending

b. I never watch the news on TV. I'll occasionally talk to people for a few minutes to hear what's going on in the world, or if I have a few free minutes I'll scroll through the major articles online.

i. As a result, I have much less stress, more positivity, and don't worry myself/build an unhealthy fear around things that are 100% out of my control.

c. I've cut out "binge" TV watching, and instead spend time doing productive things that allow me to help other people (and feel amazing as a result), like writing this book and building up a health business.

i. I'll occasionally watch an episode of something that makes me laugh like Family Guy or The Office if I want to de-stress a bit

ii. I try to never watch TV series and/or dramas since they are very, very easy to get addicted to. (I make a weekly exception when Game of Thrones is on).

iii. Don't be that guy or girl who watches 6 hours of the Walking Dead or one of their 7 other "can't miss" TV series, and gets nothing done for themselves.

d. I have 7 "nice shirts" (5 dress shirts and 2 sweaters) and 8 "nice pants" (5 dress slacks and 3 pairs of jeans/casual pants).

i. These are all well-fitting and comfortable, and I just rotate this week by week.

ii. I no longer worry about what to wear in the morning or how I'll look or anything meaningless like that.

iii. Live is much, much simpler in the morning. (I can actually get ready, from bed to the front door, in less than 7 minutes on any given day. Sure it's a bit rushed, but it works like a charm.)

iv. Also, I used to always worry that "people saw me wear this shirt last Tuesday, I can't wear it again!!". This is crazy. Trust me, no one cares to remember what you've worn on any given day, so stick to a few simple clothing choices and just rotate them every 7-10 days.

Remember: None of these strategies will work for you if you don't do them! So get to it!!

Interested in losing weight? Then click below to see the exact steps I took to lose weight and keep it off for good...

Read the previous article about "Part 4 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality"

Read the next article about "Maximum Fat Loss in Minimum Time: The Body Type Solution To Quick, Lasting Results"

Moving forward, there are several other articles/topics I'll share so you can lose weight even faster, and feel great doing it.

Below is a list of these topics and you can use this Table of Contents to jump to the part that interests you the most.

Topic 1: How I Lost 30 Pounds In 90 Days - And How You Can Too

Topic 2: How I Lost Weight By Not Following The Mainstream Media And Health Guru's Advice - Why The Health Industry Is Broken And How We Can Fix It

Topic 3: The #1 Ridiculous Diet Myth Pushed By 95% Of Doctors And "experts" That Is Keeping You From The Body Of Your Dreams

Topic 4: The Dangers of Low-Carb and Other "No Calorie Counting" Diets

Topic 5: Why Red Meat May Be Good For You And Eggs Won't Kill You

Topic 6: Two Critical Hormones That Are Quietly Making Americans Sicker and Heavier Than Ever Before

Topic 7: Everything Popular Is Wrong: The Real Key To Long-Term Weight Loss

Topic 8: Why That New Miracle Diet Isn't So Much of a Miracle After All (And Why You're Guaranteed To Hate Yourself On It Sooner or Later)

Topic 9: A Nutrition Crash Course To Build A Healthy Body and Happy Mind

Topic 10: How Much You Really Need To Eat For Steady Fat Loss (The Truth About Calories and Macronutrients)

Topic 11: The Easy Way To Determining Your Calorie Intake

Topic 12: Calculating A Weight Loss Deficit

Topic 13: How To Determine Your Optimal "Macros" (And How The Skinny On The 3-Phase Extreme Fat Loss Formula)

Topic 14: Two Dangerous "Invisible Thorn" Foods Masquerading as "Heart Healthy Super Nutrients"

Topic 15: The Truth About Whole Grains And Beans: What Traditional Cultures Know About These So-called "Healthy Foods" That Most Americans Don't

Topic 16: The Inflammation-Reducing, Immune-Fortifying Secret of All Long-Living Cultures (This 3-Step Process Can Reduce Chronic Pain and Heal Your Gut in Less Than 24 Hours)

Topic 17: The Foolproof Immune-enhancing Plan That Cleanses And Purifies Your Body, While "patching Up" Holes, Gaps, And Inefficiencies In Your Digestive System (And How To Do It Without Wasting $10+ Per "meal" On Ridiculous Juice Cleanses)

Topic 18: The Great Soy Myth (and The Truth About Soy in Eastern Asia)

Topic 19: How Chemicals In Food Make Us Fat (Plus 10 Banned Chemicals Still in the U.S. Food Supply)

Topic 20: 10 Banned Chemicals Still in the U.S. Food Supply

Topic 21: How To Protect Yourself Against Chronic Inflammation (What Time Magazine Calls A "Secret Killer")

Topic 22: The Truth About Buying Organic: Secrets The Health Food Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

Topic 23: Choosing High Quality Foods

Topic 24: A Recipe For Rapid Aging: The "Hidden" Compounds Stealing Your Youth, Minute by Minute

Topic 25: 7 Steps To Reduce AGEs and Slow Aging

Topic 26: The 10-second Trick That Can Slash Your Risk Of Cardiovascular Mortality By 37% (Most Traditional Cultures Have Done This For Centuries, But The Pharmaceutical Industry Would Be Up In Arms If More Modern-day Americans Knew About It)

Topic 27: How To Clean Up Your Liver and Vital Organs

Topic 28: The Simple Detox 'Cheat Sheet': How To Easily and Properly Cleanse, Nourish, and Rid Your Body of Dangerous Toxins (and Build a Lean Well-Oiled "Machine" in the Process)

Topic 29: How To Deal With the "Stress Hormone" Before It Deals With You

Topic 30: 7 Common Sense Ways to Have Uncommon Peace of Mind (or How To Stop Your "Stress Hormone" In Its Tracks)

Topic 31: How To Sleep Like A Baby (And Wake Up Feeling Like A Boss)

Topic 32: The 8-step Formula That Finally "fixes" Years Of Poor Sleep, Including Trouble Falling Asleep, Staying Asleep, And Waking Up Rested (If You Ever Find Yourself Hitting The Snooze Every Morning Or Dozing Off At Work, These Steps Will Change Your Life Forever)

Topic 33: For Even Better Leg Up And/or See Faster Results In Fixing Years Of Poor Sleep, Including Trouble Falling Asleep, Staying Asleep, And Waking Up Rested, Do The Following:

Topic 34: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

Topic 35: Part 1 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

Topic 36: Part 2 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

Topic 37: Part 3 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

Topic 38: Part 4 of 4: Solution To Overcoming Your Mental Barriers and Cultivating A Winner's Mentality

Topic 39: How To Beat Your Mental Roadblocks And Why It Can Be The Difference Between A Happy, Satisfying Life And A Sad, Fearful Existence (These Strategies Will Reduce Stress, Increase Productivity And Show You How To Fulfill All Your Dreams)

Topic 40: Maximum Fat Loss in Minimum Time: The Body Type Solution To Quick, Lasting Results

Topic 41: If You Want Maximum Results In Minimum Time You're Going To Have To Work Out (And Workout Hard, At That)

Topic 42: Food Planning For Maximum Fat Loss In Minimum Time

Topic 43: How To Lose Weight Fast If You're in Chronic Pain

Topic 44: Nutrition Basics for Fast Pain Relief (and Weight Loss)

Topic 45: How To Track Results (And Not Fall Into the Trap That Ruins 95% of Well-Thought Out Diets)

Topic 46: Advanced Fat Loss - Calorie Cycling, Carb Cycling and Intermittent Fasting

Topic 47: Advanced Fat Loss - Part I: Calorie Cycling

Topic 48: Advanced Fat Loss - Part II: Carb Cycling

Topic 49: Advanced Fat Loss - Part III: Intermittent Fasting

Topic 50: Putting It All Together

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alexdmorgan30 · 5 years

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Harm Reduction vs. Gentrification in Asheville, North Carolina

In August 2018, Hillary Brown received a bizarre notice from the city of Asheville. The small syringe exchange program that Brown ran three hours a week in the backroom of a bookstore was ordered to shut down within 30 days for operating an illegal homeless shelter.At first, 31-year-old Brown, the sole employee of harm reduction nonprofit Steady Collective in western North Carolina, thought it was a joke. Every Tuesday since 2016 the Steady Collective had visited the backroom at Firestorm Books to hand out sterile syringes, condoms, and overdose prevention supplies to people at risk for overdose and drug-related infections.Syringe Exchange or Homeless Shelter?Separated from the bookstore by a curtain, the backroom is dimly lit and bare except for a couple of red-cushioned church pews against a wall and two gray folding tables where Brown lays out the supplies. The room contains no food, no beds, no bathrooms, and no showers. People who stop by to stock up on supplies rarely linger more than five minutes. And many of them do have homes.Brown followed up with the notice, which had been served to the building’s other tenants as well: Firestorm Books & Coffee, 12 Baskets (a small free-lunch program operating in the basement), and Kairos West, a community center run by the Episcopal Church. All four tenants were accused of violating zoning laws having to do with the operation of a homeless shelter in the city’s rapidly gentrifying west end. A $100 per diem penalty would be levied against all tenants if the Steady Collective did not cease operations within 30 days.The initial notice of violation seemed bizarre, but it was only a hint of the ongoing legal battle it would spark.Within the 30-day grace period, the city withdrew the notices of violation from 12 Baskets and Kairos West, leaving Firestorm Books and the Steady Collective to face the legal hurdles alone.Remarkably, Firestorm Books, which could have easily saved itself by asking the Steady Collective to stop coming on Tuesdays, chose to dig in for a fight, risking its 10-year business history and the livelihood of its four employees.Beck, one of Firestorm’s co-owners, explains that the Firestorm team see themselves as “community organizers first and business people second.” Throwing a community nonprofit out to save their own skins would run counter to their business and personal ethos.Lucky for Firestorm and Steady Collective, local attorney John Noor offered to take the case pro bono. Noor has worked the case since September and helped secure meetings between city management and the Steady Collective.Attracting the Wrong Kind of PeopleAccording to Brown, during one meeting to make the case for why a small once-a-week syringe exchange should not be classified as a homeless shelter, a city official commented: “It’s less about what you do and more about who you serve.”Brown considers this a rare—and likely accidental—moment of honesty. The city wasn’t arguing against the need for the program or its efficacy. (There are mountains of evidence that point to syringe exchange programs as safe and effective for reducing bloodborne disease transmission and overdose death). And Asheville is in desperate need of help. Its surrounding county, Buncombe, has one of the highest overdose rates in western North Carolina. The Steady Collective, one of the few programs in the city that attempts to mitigate the overdose crisis, reported 719 successful overdose reversals since 2016—no other program in the county can claim those results.But as the city official admitted, it’s not about what the program does. It’s not about science or results or lives saved or providing resources to a population in desperate need. No, the city's concern is the program attracting the “wrong kind” of people to a rapidly gentrifying part of the city; the eyesore of folks who might look homeless gathering on a street that is trying hard to look hip. And the fear of what “those people” might bring.Asheville’s tactics mirror similar efforts by other cities and states, including Los Angeles, Charleston, Claremont, and Lawrence County, to shut down syringe exchanges. “Zoning violations” are a favorite tool, as are concerns about discarded needles (a problem that can be addressed through syringe disposal bins) and policymakers’ personal discomfort with the idea of harm reduction.“At a time of crisis we are having resources taken away,” says Brown. “Harm reduction is on the front lines [of drug overdose] but we have to argue for our existence and the lives of the people we serve. That is unconscionable.”Fighting City Hall to Help Drug UsersEarlier this month I traveled to Asheville to witness the state’s largest legal battle over syringe exchange with my own eyes. The day I visited, Brown and a volunteer were in Firestorm’s backroom riffling through bags of packaged syringes, condoms, Band-aids and naloxone, a medicine used to reverse opioid overdose.Although Brown remained calm throughout our interview, the past few months of legal battles have taken an emotional toll.“What is really exhausting is to hear [the city] debate people’s dignity,” Brown said. The legal process “has undone me in ways I wasn’t prepared for.”Brown described the frustration of having people come into the exchange crying over the loss of a loved one to overdose who “can’t talk about the loss [outside the harm reduction program] because they are engaged in a criminal activity.”And the whole process hasn’t exactly occurred in the open.“The city of Asheville wants to talk behind closed doors and go through their rules. They don’t want the public to know [what they are doing],” said Brown.In March, after months of legal wrangling, the city finally made an offer: the Steady Collective could operate under the classification of “medical clinic” if they kept a physician on site during all hours of operation.Brown described the offer as a slap in the face. The tiny exchange can barely afford a single employee to run operations. To pay a supervising physician—when the only real task is to hand out non-prescription supplies from the back of a bookstore—is a non-starter. (Notably, the Steady Collective operates another exchange on Wednesdays out of a church in a non-gentrifying part of town; the city has not required that location to keep medical personnel on site.)Thanks to legal help, the Steady Collective was able to counter the offer and settle for an agreement to keep a nurse on site. They are the only syringe exchange in the state with such a requirement.The day I visited, Vanessa Bourgeois was the on-site nurse. Bourgeois works weekends at a local hospital but volunteers on Tuesdays for the Steady Collective where she puts packets of syringes and condoms in plastic bags and hands them across the table to participants—hardly work that requires a nursing license.The absurdity of the predicament is not lost on her.“This is not a situation that needs a nurse,” she says bluntly. “Harm reduction is appropriate for laypeople.”Though she is happy to support the Steady Collective’s work, she denounces the city’s actions as “part of the narrative to make people who use drugs seem dangerous or scary.”Because Bourgeois volunteers her time during exchange hours, the Steady Collective and Firestorm Books are no longer under threat of being shut down. But to Brown, their work is far from over.Asheville Impedes Harm Reduction EffortsAsheville, a city often touted as one of North Carolina’s “most progressive,” has shown little evidence of progressive thinking towards drug users in any of its major government facilities. When North Carolina legalized syringe exchange in 2016, Asheville police responded aggressively, ripping up the ID cards that syringe exchange participants are required to carry by law.In 2018, Mission Hospital, the largest medical facility in Asheville, implemented a draconian policy against drugs users: If any patient is suspected of IV drug use, regardless of the medical condition for which they are being seen, hospital staff will confiscate their electronic possessions, refuse them visitors, and keep a staff member in the room at all times to supervise them.And the City of Asheville Planning Department has not given up their war on harm reduction. The city plans to write syringe exchanges into the zoning code, which would allow the city to impose restrictions on their locations. Brown believes fighting against such legislation is “the most important issue facing harm reduction in the state” and urges other programs not to be complacent.Asked what the Steady Collective would do differently if faced with the situation again, Brown says that the organization would be more aggressive about raising public awareness of the city’s actions and mobilizing people to fight back. At the time, the concern was that drawing too much negative attention to the city would disrupt the negotiation process. But now Brown sees that there was never much negotiation to begin with.To other harm reduction programs facing similar threats, Brown advises: “Be more vocal about the process. Invite other people in. Organize the community to fight back. Mobilize medical professionals and faith leaders.”North Carolina accomplished a great feat when it legalized syringe exchange programs in 2016. But the real work still lies ahead. We still live in a world that stigmatizes and devalues the lives of people who use drugs. Until this changes, every harm reduction program in every community is at risk. People who use drugs and their allies must stick together. Stay vigilant. And be ready for the fights when they come.Maribel Lopez and Hillary Brown at the church location

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Apps that help you get to sleep

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Apps that help you get to sleep

Cosy up in a mattress, get exceptional and comfortable and when you’ve geared up close your eyes…”

So start the dulcet tones of Tamara Levitt, one of the maximum famous readers on Calm’s Sleep Stories, where her soothing voice facilitates the various 9m folks who’ve already downloaded the Calm app fall to sleep every night time. Including me.

A chat sometime in the past with a colleague led me to analyse whether or not sleep testimonies for grown-united states of America had been some thing that first, wasn’t laughable, and second, would possibly just work for me. Could that acquainted sense of consolation a lot of us realize from early life, that of memories lulling us to sleep, enhance my ability to fall right into a greater restful sleep and extra speedy in addition? I downloaded the app, just the trial version to start, which has three or four stories (which include one geared toward kids) to be had totally free.

I’m the form of man or woman who lies in bed at night time mulling matters over in my head. Not even disturbing problems, however, the whole lot from making plans what colour I’d like to paint the living room to which appointments or interviews want to be lined up that week. I may want to see that lack of sleep or the lack of ability to fall asleep early enough became beginning to impact on my well-being all through my waking hours. Instead of lying awake considering stuff, should the testimonies no longer most effective be soothing enough to make me loosen up, but could the very act of taking note of a narrative take my thoughts off the worries of the day?

The Calm app becomes launched through two entrepreneurs, one in all whom, Michael Acton Smith, is likewise the inventor of Moshi Monsters, with all their eye-popping, actually-now not-sleep-inducing colourings and individual. From shiny and playful to restful and considerate, the Calm app became a new move for Acton Smith.

The app firstly started out lifestyles as a meditation aid but the team of builders began to note that a lot of their customers had been doing meditations in the evening time and so, ultimate December, the business enterprise brought sleep testimonies to it.

There are presently around 30 tales to concentrate to, which range from fictional testimonies to nature essays and nonfiction essays read by means of narrators inclusive of (my favourite) Tamara Levitt and Ben Stein, who performed the droning economics teacher in cult conventional Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The complete model of the app prices around €10 in step with the month to get entry to and you may do a loose trial.

Acton Smith tells me that the fulfilment of his sleep stories app has surpassed even his expectancies with very fantastic critiques and over two million listens according to month and it looks set to grow as humans grow to be greater informed approximately the advantages of an awesome night time’s sleep.

If our parents always stated that “Sleep is the first-class medicinal drug” it seems the advantages of sleep have become an area of multiplied interest with satisfactory-promoting books through the likes of Arianna Huffington espouses the advantages of a good night’s sleep.

“We spend a 3rd of our lifestyles asleep but most of us realize little or no approximately it,” says Acton Smith. “It has a large impact on our health and health that’s why greater people are taking an energetic hobby in a way to improve the first-rate of our sleep… It’s extraordinarily critical and we are able to do extreme damage to our quick-term and long-time period health via failing to treat our sleep with the honour it merits.”

Acton Smith’s organisation has learned that it’s now not a case of one length suits all — a few users love the fictitious testimonies while some pick the nature essays; some decide upon the voices of the male narrators even as others select woman voices. For me, the commonplace thread is the tempo of the speech in addition to the tone — my favourites generally tend to characterize a low tone and a slow tempo which is a function of the transport of most of the narrators.

Acton Smith didn’t invent the sleep story and there are different human beings doing it. There’s Sleep with Me: The Podcast that Puts you to Sleep — a series of bedtime stories that “helps you to forget your issues and progressively gets duller until you fall to sleep”. It’s a unfastened podcast to be had on iTunes, where the tales are downloaded over a million times each month. Topics encompass the distinction among a venture and a quest, the science behind mood earrings, and different wacky, weird, humorous, and yet interestingly uninteresting tales introduced within the trademark low-check in the drawl of the narrator, Drew Ackerman, who goes by using the name of Scooter.

There appears to be a pattern in sleep inducing stories — some of them entail a journey to a stunning location and regularly it’s far the journey itself and the setting that is soothing.

In the case of Ackerman’s tales on Sleep with Me, it’s his voice and the rambling, nonlinear story strains which can be sleep-inducing and he has tens of millions of lovers who’ve found his voice and bedtime ramblings, which he spends many hours high-quality-tuning, a slave to the racing mind and an aid to sleep.

Acton Smith says that the sleep tales on the Calm app remaining around 20 mins for youngsters, with the minimum required for adults being 20 minutes long and the “candy spot” is 35 mins.

On Sleep with Me, the stories average around an hour in the period but enthusiasts say that they never get to the end of the memories earlier than drifting off to sleep.

Statistics from World Sleep Survey by way of Big Health, creators of the sleep app Sleepio (which fits by way of supporting human beings to control their sleep time table and by using cognitive behavioural remedy strategies and realistic advice to help users enhance their sleep) reveal that the common UK employee loses eight.Five days of labour a year because of bad sleep.

Presumably, it’s a similar situation in Ireland.

Professor Colin Espie, co-founder of Big Health and professor of sleep medication at the University of Oxford, says: “The consequences of a terrible night’s rest affect us now not handiest physically however also mentally and emotionally, significantly impacting our overall performance at paintings.

“Physically we can experience torpid, mentally we come to be slowed down with poorer concentration and reminiscence, and emotionally we might also turn out to be irritable and alternatively down, with bursts of hyperactivity. In phrases of everyday existence, no aspect of everyday functioning is unaffected through sleep — least of all our jobs.”

I won’t be afflicted by insomnia but stress and my natural disposition to fear were inflicting me sleepless nights. Now, thanks to sleep testimonies, I’m drifting off more effortlessly to the Land of Nod. I’m no longer announcing it’s a treatment-all however if soothing, winding and sure, probably dull, narratives laboured for me they could simply be well worth attempting in case you’re having problem nodding off at night.

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