Sleep for Better Health

y have side affects, in which for any given particular individual, the long range affects cannot be determined. As a substitute for Pharmaceuticals one might try aspirin or search home remedies.
 * 1) Learn to relax. In the long run any problems that might keeping one from sleeping in the now, and thus perhaps negatively affecting one's health, cannot be all that important if one cannot recall them in the future. Refuse to think of the problems or resolve them by changing the circumstances of their creation. Some types of thinking will excite the mind and some will slow and retard it. Leave work/school related problems, stress, worry etc. at work. Thinking about it won't change anything. Employ day dreaming style free flowing magical thinking that more corresponds to dream/sleep frame of mind. Try to remember the last dream one had, or any dream. Maybe read the comics. Read a chapter of something very enjoyable, slowly and for the ambiance, if it makes one drowsy just before going to bed. Concentrate on a single problem that is enjoyable for one to think about. Concentrate on slowing the mind.
 * 2) *Sleeping in the same bed with others can also affect one's sleep. A restless partner may disturb one everytime they toss, turn, snore, whatever. May have to consider sleeping in a separate room.

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