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Golden Rule Improves Sleep
To increase the likelihood that your 24/7 workforce will care more about getting appropriate sleep before work, and change their lives to do so, jump into their shoes and figure out how you would like to be treated in those shoes…and then, treat your workers that way.
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You don’t know how fatigued you are….or do you?
When organizations are setting up their fatigue risk management systems, they will always run into the challenge of assessing fitness to start or continue duty. You will often hear people saying “We cannot simply ask our shift-workers if they are … Continue reading →
Want to get through an intense emotional experience? Dreaming might help!
REM sleep helps you deal with intense emotional experiences
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Workload has Modest Effect on How Sleepy You Feel
A recent study suggests that there might be a link between workload and sleep-related fatigue.
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Want a happy new year? The secret is to work on your memory.
Researchers found that sleep deprived people have a harder time remembering positive emotional words than negative emotional words compared to people who get the sleep they need. The difference is striking; there was a 59% deficit for positive words compared to only a 19% deficit for negative words.
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Cranky Shift-Workers: It’s not their fault!
A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study showed that the amygdala’s reaction to negative emotional stimuli is greater in magnitude/intensity and volume in people who miss a night of sleep when compared to a control group. This study also showed that the connections between the amygdala and the MPFC were weaker in the sleep deprived group. This means that the amygdala’s reactions can’t be inhibited as well by the MPFC in people who lack sleep.
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Sleep More to Lose the BBQ Bulge
After only five days of getting a maximum of five hours of sleep people gained up to 2.8 lbs; sleeping up to nine hours per night can help you lose up to 1.2 lbs in five days.
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Increased Sex Drive Linked to Improved Safety
You can tell people that getting more sleep will decrease your risk of an accident or it will make you react faster or it will improve your ability to pay attention. While these are all real benefits of sleep, they are boring and they don’t promise enough personal payoff to justify changing your lifestyle to make sure you get your zzz’s. What you need to do is spice up the argument to get more sleep with promises like you will improve your sex life if you sleep more, and backing it up with facts.
Continue reading →Alcohol, Continuous Wakefulness and Reaction Time
At between 17 and 18.5 hours of continuous wakefulness, many aspect of performance involved with driving (like hand eye-coordination) are at levels similar to what you would find in a person with a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of 0.05%.
Continue reading →Will You Be a Zombie or a Clown this Halloween? – It depends on how much sleep you get.
Sleeping too little or too much, sleep just right.
Continue reading →Anchor Your Sleep to Stay Healthy
Anchor sleep can help keep you healthier in the short term and reduce your risk of developing a serious illness in the long term. It can also help with fatigue
Continue reading →My Cat Went Crazy Last Night!: How not to manage your fatigue.
1 AM and Mr. Winston decides it is time to interrupt my deep sleep! He’s only two years old and still finds himself full of energy at the wrong times and especially after a day of hiding out in our … Continue reading →
Effective and Simple Strategies to Manage Stress
Sleep Better…using these Effective and Simple Strategies to Manage Stress
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Is Your Brain Shrinking?
Researchers found that the brains of people with insomnia shrink in areas that control problem solving and decision making.
Continue reading →Why focus on fun?
“Why on earth would you ever want to focus on fun?” she asked in a very serious tone. I was taken aback by this statement. I thought everyone could have more fun in their lives. I know I can always … Continue reading →
Pursuing Pleasure
In a previous article I talked about orienting your life around pleasure. Sounds a little hedonistic doesn’t it? I am not talking about being a self-centred, narcissistic person. What I am talking about is making your life fun. The average … Continue reading →
Don’t do it if it ain’t fun!
There is pleasure and there is pain. There is black and there is white. There is good and there is bad. There is fun and there is boredom or worse, displeasure and misery. When we are born, we instinctively know … Continue reading →
Finding Your Joy
“What the heck would I do?” he asked me when I inquired about his retirement date. This guy reached his magic pension number in the federal government 15 years ago but he was still working. I couldn’t understand “why?” Continuing … Continue reading →