Show s I Important Factor I In n Comfort m Fatigue Rei Relief By DR OR JOSEPHINE L L. RATHBONE The most common annoyance resulting from the stage of fatigue is insomnia Inability to sleep must be considered considered considered con con- the cardinal sign of too much fatiguing activity It an individual cannot sleep when he wants to it is usually because he heis heis heis is too tense tens tense Especially when overwork h has s made m muscles tense and the brain bram active it will take appreciable time before the wheels will run down during the day as a result of to business social and intellectual intellectual pursuits often persists at night in the form of restless and f broken sleep It is a curious fact that the more tired one is the harder it is to get gety f y L to sleep and that emotional states of excitement anxiety and worry f. f may postpone the onset of sleep It is not the rhythmic type of exercise that induces insomnia 1 l ft i but the marked degrees of tension i t accompanying mental work and andI anda p. p I a worry For these reasons over- over tense mental workers always complain com- com r j plain of insomnia t L' Too much emphasis cannot be beV V 1 placed on the fact that many intellectual in- in workers try to exist on rations of sleep which are far be below below below be- be low the ne necessary essary minimum Ber Bei Be- Be i f r cause mental work tends to drive one to a stage of i ty the intellectual worker feels alert and is inclined to scrimp on sleep When he lives on a minimum of i. i sleep he is constantly in a stage V i of physiologic as well as hypertension which in ini i its turn will carry the body toward toward toward to- to ward eventual breakdown One of ot the worst features of r mental work is that it may keep f- f an individual in a state of neuromuscular neuromuscular muscular late in inthe inthe inthe the evening A sure way to counteract counteract counteract coun- coun a habit of lying awake is isto i. i to go to bed before one is tired or to become more rested before trying to go to sleep l J That may sound paradoxical but just try these few rules for sev- sev eral evenings in succession 1 Refuse to do any work connected connected con con- with your business after 0 dinner j i 2 Refuse to tal take e part in an argument argue argument e ment after dinner 3 Refuse to participate In hectic j.- j. in the evening 4 Get into bed very soon after dinn dinner r rest your body and read a book unconnected with your our work When you begin to have difficulty Zt ti Refuse to argue after dinner I getting the meaning of the sentences sentences sentences sen sen- sleep is not far off oIl It should be wooed even if the hour is early You have gone to bed to sleep so give yourself up to the luxury of a long nights night's rest Do not let yourself stay awake to review the affairs of today or to plan for the future Nothing will prepare you better for tomorrows tomorrow's work or play than tonight's sleep Next Relaxation a medicine |