Sublime

At Ojai, in April, four hour-long discussions took place on ‘The Nature of the Mind’ between K, David Bohm, Dr John Hidley, a psychiatrist in private practice in Ojai, and Rupert Sheldrake, who was at that time a consultant to the International Crops Institute in Hyderabad. These discussions, video taped in colour, had been sponsored by the Robert

I thought about what Dr. Charles Czeisler had told me back at Harvard Medical School. If we all went back to sleeping as much as our brains and our bodies need, he said, “it would be an earthquake for our economic system, because our economic system has become dependent on sleep-depriving people.

“It’s almost as though, without sleep, the brain had reverted back to more primitive patterns of activity, in that it was unable to put emotional experiences into context and produce controlled, appropriate responses.”

three crucial things that are happening during mind-wandering.

Sleep is sacred—it keeps your hormones healthy, helps your brain better regulate your emotions, and can even help you lose weight. Sleep is also when your brain cleans itself, offering a free power-wash every night thanks to the newly discovered glymphatic system. We can optimize sleep and the glymphatic system with a high-fiber, low-carbohydrate d

I urge an elderly individual who may be concerned about their sleep not to seek a sleeping pill prescription. Instead, I recommend you first explore the effective and scientifically proven non-pharmacological interventions that a doctor who is board certified in sleep medicine can provide.

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

if your eyes are open and you are looking around you, you can lapse—without knowing it—into a state called “local sleep.”