Sleep
Sleep is your mind’s second shift, when it processes the day’s experience; let it do its work.
a Healthy Body requires rest, both to let the body repair itself and so the mind can sort through the events of the day and physically change the brain to integrate them.
If we don’t sleep, both our bodies and our minds start to fail, but sleeping too much can also cause problems.
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Sleep has been found to be critical to our health.
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Exactly how much sleep we need and when we need it is probably a very personal thing, so it’s good to learn about your daily cycles and where sleep might fit into those.
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Interestingly, some of the most creative thinkers had unconventional ideas about sleep. Buckminster Fuller didn’t sleep much, but he slept in the manner of a cat in that when he was tired, he lay down where he was a slept for a bit. He found that overall, he could operate very well with just a few hours of sleep total per day. Thomas Edison also claimed to hate sleeping, and did it as little as possible, though he too often napped in his labs, and usually had a cot set up in his office.
Therefore:
Sleep is your mind’s second shift, when it processes the day’s experience; let it do its work. Listen to your body and try to give it the amount of sleep it needs without over doing it.
When you’re learning, sleep can help you integrate your new knowledge; it can also allow your unconscious mind to work and produce a clearer Intuition