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“Everything is interconnected. Gratitude improves sleep. Sleep reduces pain. Reduced pain improves your mood. Improved mood reduces anxiety, which improves focus and planning. Focus and planning help with decision making. Decision making further reduces anxiety and improves enjoyment. Enjoyment gives you more to be grateful for, which keeps that loop of the upward spiral going. Enjoyment also makes it more likely you'll exercise and be social, which, in turn, will make you happier.”
--UCLA Neuroscience researcher Alex Korb

Four Rituals that Make You Happy:

(in summary, and as suggested by science to date)
1. Be grateful.
2. Name negative emotions.

3. Make good enough decisions.

4. Touch people.

SOURCE: http://theweek.com/articles/601157/neuroscience-reveals-4-rituals-that-make-happy

Sleep well. A gland in the command
center releases its yellow hornet
to tell you you're missing the point,
the point being that getting smacked
by a board, gored by umbrellas, tongue-
lashed by cardiologists, bush-wacked
by push-up bras is a learning experience.
Sure, you're about learned up. Weren't
we promised the thieves would be punished?
Promised jet-packs and fleshy gardenias
and wine to get the dust out of our mouths?
And endless forgiveness? A floral rot
comes out of the closet, the old teacher's
voice comes out of the ravine, red-wings
in rushes never forget their rusty-hinged
song. Moon-song, dread-song, hardly-a-song
at all song. Let's ignore that call,
let someone else stop Mary from herself
for the 80th time. It's never really dark
anyway, not even inside the skull. Take
my hand, fellow figment. Every spring
we'll meet, definite as swarms of stars,
insects over glazed puddles, your eyes
green even though your driver's license
says otherwise. And yes, mortal knells
in sleepless hours, hollow knocks of empty
boats against a dock but still the mind
is a meadow, the heart an ocean even though
it burns. As long as there's a sky, someone
will be falling from it. After molting,
eat your own shucked skin for strength,
keep changing the subject in hopes
that the subject will change you.

Sleep increases growth hormone and decreases IL-6. (Jones)

( turns out Schor and I agree: DSL is a bad idea )

Lewy, MD, PhD, been studying melatonin and light effects on sleep and depression xlongtime
cartoon: "Portland weather calls for severe depression with a 30% chance of suicide."
( more notes )

[Error: unknown template qotd] A queen sized bed.

http://naturalmedicinejournal.com/article_content.asp?edition=1§ion=3&article=223

fascinating factoid per Drs Szabat & Ambrose: scutellaria inhibits expression of IL6, 6/2011

Family: Labiatae (MINT family)
( notes )

A new study correlates higher use of mobile phones with depression and sleep disturbances in young adults.
SOURCE: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/738383?src=mp&spon=34
( text of the abstract )

You are presumed to be showing us your real self when you are on deadline, have a headache, are facing a customer service meltdown, haven't had a good night's sleep, are facing an ethical dilemma, are momentarily in power, are caught doing something when you thought no one else was looking, are irritable, have the opportunity to extract revenge, are losing a competition or are truly overwhelmed.
--Seth Godin

EENT Study Questions – Throat
( handmedown )

( notes on sleep from wikipedia and class )

( notes )

Last night I dreamed:
( notes )

( amino acids are not boring )

Current Mood: fascinated
Current Location: Barn, Flagstaff, AZ
Current Music: heater hissing

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23852426-why-morning-people-rule-the-world.do
(because we are more proactive, while evening people are more creative and social)

THE DREAM THAT MUST BE INTERPRETED
( This place is a dream, Only a sleeper considers it real. )

Passiflora = Passion Flower, looks passionate to me
grows on a vine
species: incarnata, edulis (pictured), coerulea
family: Passifloraceae
( notes )

63% of married women in the US say they would rather watch a movie, read a book, or sleep one more hour, than to have sex with their husbands.
(factoid from The Week 6/4/10 which in turn credits iVillage)

( notes mostly from gastroenterology lecture by SSL )

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

INTERESTING TIMES

are better than no times at all.

Entries tagged with sleep

QotD: Seeking Happiness

Poem: How to Be a Surrealist by Dean Young

More reason to get good sleep

J Schor on Daylight Savings Time

Grand Rounds (week 3): A.J.Lewy on Circadian Rhythm/Melatonin

Writer's Block: Fashion faux pas

Schor on RLS

Herbs: Scutellaria lateriflora (Scullcap)

Cell Phones Bum Us Out

QotD: The Real You

EENT final study guide

Sleep

Sleep More to Lose Weight

Three nights of dreaming: snow, cash/acne, and baby mammal

Biochemistry 202: Tryptophan and 5HTP

Why Morning People Rule the World

Poem by Rumi on The Dream

Herbs: Passiflora (Passionflower)

Sex Factoid

CC: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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