HOW TO SLEEP 



nourishment to supply pabulum for repair has been 

 taken a few hours earlier. This pabulum, already 

 digested, is then beginning to enter the circulatory sys- 

 tem, and the repair of the tissues can go on with the 

 least possible organic disturbance. 



It scarcely needs saying that these and all other ex- 

 pedients will fail of effect in producing profound and 

 restful sleep in persons of a certain temperament, 

 who are constantly harassed and worried by the 

 ordinary incidents of e very-day existence. These will 

 carry their mental worriments even into sleep, if in- 

 deed they are able to sleep at all, and intrinsic stimuli 

 of the brain itself will suffice to keep the disturbing 

 currents operative. Such must turn to their philosophy 

 of living to find the root of their malady. 



As to the time of awaking from a properly con- 

 ducted period of sleep, that also is to be prescribed by 

 habit, and should become quite as fixed and definite 

 as the time of retiring. It is marvellous what an accu- 

 rate alarm-clock the mind becomes when trained. It is 

 better, however, not to test it in this regard while ac- 

 quiring good habits of sleeping. If on retiring you re- 

 solve to awaken at five on the morrow, you will probably 

 do so, but your mind will be kept unduly active during 

 the night. It is better to trust to objective alarm-clocks 

 and not to burden the mind with any special task in 

 the absence of consciousness. After the proper method 

 of sleep for the individual has been determined and for 

 a time practised, the mind will become active almost 

 at a given minute each morning, through the vigilance 



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