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“O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING…?” Cont’d from prev. blog)
“O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING…?” Cont’d from prev. blog) “My problem at present is coping with feelings about my family. I just don’t want to leave them. I look at Marianne (his wife) when she is not looking and … Continue reading
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Now there’s sleep…and there’s sleep”. (Continuation of previous blog).
One final point about REM sleep and dreaming: what do we know about it? Well at the purely subjective level we know that dreams can (as it appears once we are awake) at one and the same time, be fairly … Continue reading
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Now there’s sleep…and there’s sleep”. (Continuation of previous blog).
Should you be experiencing difficulty with sleep, you might therefore wish to institute and apply the multi-pronged ‘campaign’ outlined above in order to improve things and I would suggest that it might take something like the following form. Include regular … Continue reading
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Now there’s sleep…and there’s sleep”. (Continuation of previous blog).
Enough then of the negative side of food and fluid intake; what about positive ways of manipulating diet? Distinct possibilities do undeniably exist. The food of choice in this regard is carbohydrate. Carbohydrate is, as most probably you know, any … Continue reading
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“…Now there’s sleep…and there’s sleep”. (Continuation of previous blog).
Continuing on from the previous blog, there, quite typically at this point, occurs evidence of change, different to anything witnessed hitherto. The EEG pattern returns to small and rapid oscillations; the EMG line also flattens out, whereas the EOG now … Continue reading
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Sleep is the best Medicine. (Cont’d fro previous blog).
Whenever I hear people talking about sleep, I think of my own mother, who – so it seemed to me as a child – appeared to ‘prescribe’ it for almost every ailment and eventuality in life. “What you need” she … Continue reading
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Beyond Self. (Continuation of previous posting)
.Returning to the Promethean myth for a further moment, referred to in my previous posting, we may well maintain that fire – or to use the language of these blogs – mind and its potential for the recognition of spirit … Continue reading
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Beyond Self. (Continuation of previous posting).
What we have just described in the final paragraphs of the previous blog, is something to which I guess the overwhelming majority of us can relate to in our own day and age. However, for us it is unlikely to … Continue reading
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Beyond Self. (Continuation of previous posting).
.First of all, let me, as promised, briefly recap by amplifying somewhat the contents of the previous blog. Spirituality – so we have established – is as integral to life as is the air that surrounds us. Our word “spirit” … Continue reading
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Beyond Self. (Continuation of previous posting)
.Some describe religion quite simply as a belief in spiritual power emanating and radiating from and through spiritual beings. Others have worked out more elaborate definitions to do with beliefs and practices prescribing patterns of behaviour, which in turn possess … Continue reading
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