OCR Text |
Show ; If You Can't Sleep Try Relaxing Nerves Don't blame .the heat, if you can't sleep these nights. Although Sthis can contribute to sleepless-ness, sleepless-ness, worries and fears that you take to bed with you are imore suspect. So leave day-time problems prob-lems in the living room, if you want eight hours of sleep. Surveys reveal 'that half the adults in this country consider themselves insomniacs and there are more women who have trouble getting to sleep than men. Farther people over 50 years of age suffer twice as much from insomnia as do young things in their 20's. Guaranteed to ibe more effective 3than counting sheep is 'the trick of -making yourself relax by re-kinking nerves and muscles or toy diverting di-verting the thoughts that won't give in to sleep. Read a 'book on' a subject that's amusing or completely engrossing. engross-ing. It can change your train of thought. Having friends in for a good talk or a hobby that's pleasantly stimulating is a help. Some sort of definite change of pace, during the veniing will tease nervous tension and make you more sleep-minded. sleep-minded. A short wark before bedtime bed-time is a way of relaxing tense nerves and muscles. |