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How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?
Dear Friend,
Twas sitting in mi favorito Chinese restaurant yesterday
with my brother Sean. And let me tell you, in Tampa it
is very difficult finding a good Chinese restaurant - so the
fact that I have a favorite is saying something.
Anyway, after eating a plate of Gong Pao chicken and drinking
a few cups of oolong tea - the bill came along with a couple
fortune cookies.
I opened mine and out popped the following: You will soon have
an enlightening experience.
Sean opened his and began reading the following ...
"If you go to bed the same day you got up .. you're a quitter."
I enjoyed his fortune so much I put it in my clip.
Now, so you know, there's both greatness and danger wrapped into
this message. The workaholic thinks it's funny. He uses it as an
excuse to justify lack of sufficient sleep. As for myself, I see it as
a reflection of a good work ethic (not an over-work ethic) as well as
a bit humorous.
Por ejemplo, I generally arise between 7 and 9 a.m. Sometimes much
later - depending on when I hit the hay.
On the other end of the spectrum, I generally sack out around midnight ...
or somewhere between 1 and 3 a.m.
One thing is certain though, once I take the evening plop - I'm out like a
light for a good eight hours. Occasionally seven - but almost always eight.
There's good reason for spending eight hours between the sheets. And the
reasons extend way beyond "that's the way it is."
Obesity and lack of sleep, for example, run hand in hand. Your body needs
sleep in order to release growth hormone. If you don't get enough sleep, no
growth hormone - very little repair of the body - mucho stressola place on the
body - all of it spells n-o-t g-o-o-d.
Another health problem that runs hand-in-hand with sleep deprivation is
diabetes. Want to increase the likelihood of developing Type II diabetes,
then don't get enough sleep, eat lots of starch and sugar - and never, ever,
ever exercise.
I met a lady some years ago when I was traveling in Medford, Oregon. She
told me of her plan to sleep less and less .. and her reasoning was simple.
"Sleep is like death," she said. "All that time just lying there, doing nothing.
It's
such a waste of one's life."
In one sense you could nod agreement - spending 1/3 of one's life in bed sleeping
does sound like it's excessive. But you do not extend your life through sleep
deprivation.
Nor do you improve your health and well-being.
Your body needs to rejuvenate, repair and replenish each day. Not giving your
body time to
do so displays complete ignorance about how the body functions. It violates
Nature's Laws.
And you know the saying about Mother Nature.
So get some sleep. Sleep 7-8 hours or more per night. And if you feel like it,
take power
naps during the day. I frequently take one - sometimes two.
Here endeth today's lesson.
Matt Furey
P.S. The Chinese Long-Life System repairs your internal body and strengthens your
health in a manner that is similar to sleep. You don't need to thrash your body
in a
gym pumping iron to get fit and healthy. You can do it with gentle free-flowing
calisthenics,
some light massaging of vital pressure points and a bit of clapping and slapping
along the
body's meridians. Each day that I follow the Chinese Long-Life System I am amazed
at
how much more alive I feel - at how much more energized I am. You can feel the
same way.
We're down to less than 10 sets of the system at the introductory amount. I
suggest you get the Chinese Long-Life System NOW by going here.
P.P.S. Still want to train with vim, vigor as well as a lot of huffing and
puffing - then I suggest
the Get Started Now Kit. You can find it here.
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