How to Wake up your brain

Selma
3 min readJul 16, 2018

…A pre-requisite for morning

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Let me ask you this — on a scale of 1–5, with 5 being the best score, how would you rate your sleep? My score would be a 5. Yours? And how many hours of sleep do you feel you need?

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, discovered that some people have a gene that enables them to do well on six hours of sleep a night. This gene, however, appears in less than 3% of the population. For the other 97%, six hours doesn’t cut it. — Helpguide dot Org

I’m not one of the lucky 3% but I believe that the quality of my seven-and-a-half-hour sleep is not bad.

What? You can sleep for eight or nine hours and still wake up feeling fuzzy and groggy? Why is that? Let me try to help.

…oh, you went back to look at the title of this post and feel I titled it wrong? No, no, the title is right. Please allow me. Before I tell you how to wake up your brain I need to talk to you about sleep first.

I’m no scientist but these are my true and tested FOUR pointers for getting a good sleep. (knock on wood)

  1. Prioritize. There are seven days in…

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Selma

‘Ordinary’ INFJ. Slow-Reader. Learner/Enthusiast. Nature-lover. Lives reverently in healing frequency. Believer: Miracles & Kindness. Writes for YOU 💗 No bling