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You deserve to wake up on the right side of the bed. Get a support system for better sleep at jointherest.com.

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[jointherest]

Be mindful about your relationship to technology: which ones make you happy and connected to others? Which make you less happy? Which, if any, should you scroll before bed?

[luna-flow]

list of things I am grateful for:

- a roof over my head

- able to afford 3 meals per day

- able to choose what to eat

- having a stable income

- living in an apartment I designed to my liking

- being healthy

- my loved ones, basically know there will be people listening and be there for me if i need one

- having time to pursue my hobbies

yes I am very grateful and blessed, I am very thankful everyday.

[jointherest]

Great example of a gratitude list

[saka-deamus]

Day 31 of Witchtober - Sand Witch⏳

Inktober prompts by @juanjoltaire!

[jointherest]

Second trick: put on a timer and write out a list of either things you’re grateful for, things you didn’t finish today that you’re stressed out about, or things you don’t want to forgot to do tomorrow, or any combination of those. Just getting it out of your head will make a huge difference. And once you’re done, close the notebook, turn over the piece of paper, or put your phone away. Thinking about that is done.

[nemfrog]

A 7th grader’s day. My own science problems. c.1935.

Internet Archive

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First trick: put sleep in your calendar.

[chippythedog]

Sweet dreams.

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Time for sleep practice

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that it only takes the average person 10-20 minutes to fall asleep (x)

[jointherest]

Here’s how to troubleshoot your sleep:

First, observe what’s your baseline. What’s going on? Don’t let sleep be a source of stress, treat it as an area of playfulness. Even if you’re not sleeping well, make your mornings meaningful. In the evening, try to go to sleep early. If you need to retrain your relationship with sleep and your bed, try sleeping elsewhere, like on the couch. If you wake up in the middle of the night, get out of bed and go sleep somewhere else if you can, or just lay down and rest and don’t get stressed about not sleeping.

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By: Yoli & Otis

[jointherest]

Morning matters a lot. Here are some things you should try to do in the morning:

Wake up in a high energy way

Minimize snoozing

Do something for yourself in the morning that makes you feel excited to get up, don't just roll out of bed and start working

Try to get a lot of bright light in the morning and less at night

Having a  consistent morning and night time routine will help you feel more awake at the right time in the AM and more tired at the right time in the PM

By the way, this will also impact your sleep the next day. As soon as you wake up, a countdown clock to bed begins that builds up your sleepiness throughout the day. The more you wake up in a high energy way, the easier it will be to go to sleep that evening.

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La corona negra (Luis Saslavsky, 1951)

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Before bed, it’s important to commit to closing the day, not doing work too close to bed, processing the day, and doing rituals that help you feel like your day is over. Try writing down what you didn’t finish today so it’s externalized and not something you need to mull over. Try writing three things that went well today that you’re grateful for. Try not to eat, drink, or work too close to bed (at least one hour before, stop doing these things). Also, timing matters a lot. A rule of thumb is: the earlier you go to sleep the better. Your sleep space also matters a lot. Try not to do work or think about things that stress you out in your bed or sleeping space. And when you do think about that stuff, externalize stress physically and verbally.

[woundgallery]

Yayoi Kusama lying on My Flower Bed, New York, 1965-66

[jointherest]

It also impacts your mental health. Getting better sleep supports your creativity and emotional resilience. Poor sleep makes it more difficult to cope with even minor stress, and it can also become an additional source of stress. Depression can trigger poor sleep and be triggered by poor sleep. Attention disorders are strongly correlated with poor sleep, and in some cases can be resolved by fixing underlying sleep issues. Sleep problems affect more than 50% of adults with anxiety. But the good news is that getting better sleep can help with all that.

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WEEK 9

Do Not Abandon Me Again (2015)

Artist: Pipilotti Rist

Do Not Abandon Me Again (2015) features a view of outer space projected on a nondescript bed.

The 1990s were a decade of girl power: riot grrl power, Spice Girls power, Buffy the Vampire Slayer power, Sex and the City power, red lipstick and bleached-blonde hair power. Women wielded as a sword what young girls were taught was our most powerful weapon and prized possession – our bodies. Through smears of menstrual blood, undaunted public nudity and romanticizations of mental illness (however misguided), girl power used the body to desacralize its status as a societal treasure. Though some of these aesthetic strategies might seem regressive today, women musicians and artists of the 1990s embodied an irony that defined this era of feminism. Though girl power sublimated gender norms by taking them to extreme, often grotesque levels, it was a revolt that came at a cost: self-destruction and serving the desires of men.

Rist’s impeccable exhibition design features countless projections and video screens, often hidden in commonplace objects, such as purses or lamps.

[jointherest]

Sleep impacts your physical and mental health. It supports your heart health and immune system. Deep sleep helps the brain clear Alzheimer's toxins. Poor sleep is associated with more caloric intake and poor diet quality. Sleep deprivation is linked to aging skin, low testosterone, and IBS. And shift work is actually classified as a probable human carcinogen.

[stars-bean]

“The time of hot chocolaty mornings and toasty marshmallow evenings.”

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs

[jointherest]

Everyone sleeps - all animals and all people - but the functional purpose of sleep varies based on each animal (it’s not just the bigger the animal is, the more sleep they need), and for us humans, it also has to do with what phase of life you’re in (e.g. a newborn and a teenager and an adult all have different needs).

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#MCA #selfie on Pipilotti Rist’s bed :) (at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia)

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Understanding why you sleep + what is sleep + what’s going on with your sleep will help you get better sleep

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When You Were Small.

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Visualize what you want your sleep to look like at the end of 2022. What is your ideal morning? What is your ideal night? How does your sleep support your goals?

[k-eke]

Quarantine + online 

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I used to be like this

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We’re going to be hosting a Self Care Sunday today. Tune in at 1PM Eastern to learn about sleep 101 and to get some sleep practice in.

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When you sleep, you go through 90 minute sleep cycles, with 4 stages in each cycle. If you got 8 hours of sleep a night, you'd get 5 sleep cycles.

At the beginning of the night, you spend more time in deep sleep. At the end of the night, you spend more time in REM.

Each part of your sleep has a different purpose. 

Light sleep is when your brain starts to categorize things you learned throughout the day, and when your motor skills get strengthened.

Deep sleep is when your energy gets restored, your immune system builds back up, hormones get released, your muscles get new blood supply, and your body repairs any damage that’s happened throughout the day. 

REM sleep is when you dream. Your brain is really active, but your body is paralyzed so you can’t act out your dreams. This phase is important for processing the last day, retaining new information, and building up your ability to make good decisions and problem solve creatively. This is where you reset from stress and emotional disturbances.

In order to spend enough time in each stage, you need to leave enough time to sleep.

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What happens when you’re sleeping?

Wondering what’s going on while you’re not awake? Want to understand how to make it work better for you? 

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