Show relaxation key to sleep A broker who claimed he had not slept for or many days journeyed 1500 miles to consult a woman skilled in the treatment of nervous conditions upon arrival he was ushered into the womans comans office and given a particularly ticul arly easy chair to recline in he told his long story to the patient healer and when he had told his pathetic account of many sleepless nights he was told that going without sleep so long really did not matter very much and that his health had not suffered the healer was summoned from the me office for 10 minutes and upon her return she found her patient wrapped in deep slumber snoring so loudly that her office windows had to be shut ile he slept for many hours and awoke much refreshed I 1 am quoting from an article on sleep by dr robert L pitfield philadelphia in medical record why did this broker go of off to sleep so easily it was because when told that loss of slee sleep phad had not affected his health he stopped worrying about it it is 13 worrying over the eff effects acts of 0 loss of sleep that actually prevents many individuals from going to sleep it is allowing the mind and body to become limp or languid that brings on sleep I 1 know a physician who has overcome his inability to sleep by just going dead mentally and physically not a thought on en his mind and every muscle relaxed it has been found that if we lie ile at complete rest with nothing on our minds and with body completely relaxed the temperature of the body the heart rate and the blood pressure go down almost to the same extent as when we are asleep naturally knowing that relaxation of mind and body is 80 per cent as restful to the body as sleep itse itself if we are very apt to go off to sleep |