2015
How can I tell when my heightened degree of optimism ascends into the realm of denial?
Since my primary focus, while writing this blog, concerns gaining insight into healthy brain functionality in hopes of guiding your sense of clarity to deepen along with mine, I'd like to quote an article that explains the importance of getting enough sleep ...
(BTW, it's my habit to read Reader Digest in the wee hours when my mind feels too restless to remain peacefully asleep :)
This article was written by Beth Weinhouse in Readers Digest, March 2015, and I'm choosing to remark upon this article because depression manifests for some in sleepiness while manifesting in others as nights filled with mental restlessness ...
"Sleep deprivation now rivals obesity and smoking as our greatest public health crises ... According to the National Sleep Foundation, everyone, with few exceptions, needs seven to nine hours of sleep a night in order for the body and mind to function optimally ... but more than a third of adults report less than seven hours of sleep in a typical 24 hour period ... In our world, sleep has been seen as the enemy of capitalism, says James Maas, PhD, former chair of the psychology department at Cornell University and author of SLEEP FOR SUCCESS ... Christopher Barnes, PhD, an expert on sleep and fatigue at the University of Washington, says: 'When you're short on sleep, self control declines' ... Russell Sanna, PhD, former executive director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School says: 'Sleep deprivation is the new normal, like smoking was in the fifties, when even doctors smoked and it took ... an enormous health campaign to convince people that the habit could be deadly ... You could say that with the invention of the light bulb, daylight, anytime, moved society away from its natural dusk to dawn sleeping patterns ... We've lost boundaries between wake and sleep, work and home ... James Maas says, 'When there's not enough time in the day to get everything done, you cheat on sleep' ... David Dinges, PhD, professor of psychiatry and chief of the sleep and chronobiology lab at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine says: 'our lifestyle is increasingly chronichaotic ... Today's technology is further eroding our natural biological patterns ... Interfering with our biological timing' ... Harvard University and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine are taking steps to sound the alarm ... To spread the word that sleep is the third pillar of health after exercise and nutrition... Dr. Maas used MRI scans to show the difference in brain activity following a (peaceful) night's sleep and an inadequate one ... The tired brain is dim, while the well rested one is lit up like a Christmas tree ... Eric Severson, senior Vice President of global talent solutions for Gap Inc. used to sleep just six hours a night. After seeing Maas's MRI scans, he was convinced that 'Getting more sleep makes you more emotionally, mentally and spiritually resilient ... It links to everything else.' " (including clarity ...)
Sooo ... If you've been feeling too sleepy or restless, suggesting your brain has not been functioning optimally when brainstorming toward clarity proves essential to your decision-making process, your spirit may actually be working overtime to fight off a mild mental depression, suggesting that your defense system is expending more energy than you know to fool your conscious mind into believing that your decisions are based in clarity, when deeper truth suggests that denial of subconscious misery is slowly driving your state of inner conflict to feel borderline crazy ... And once you come to terms with whatever deeper truth is actually eating at your sense of peace, your connection to reality will re-organize so naturally that you'll make sound use of energy to formulate a plan, based in the fact that your decision-making process has changed in ways that prove well balanced, at long last, and balance in all things creates change for the better that proves healthy, all around ...
Just saying ...
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