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Choosing to Sleep (and Some Best Practices to Improve It)

Choosing to Sleep (and Some Best Practices to Improve It), by Solomon Stevens. Photograph of woman sleeping by Gregory Pappas
Photograph by Gregory Pappas

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Sleep is a human need which we all require; so why is there so much resistance to it? I’ve learned the hard way the importance — and joy — of sleep

We are more powerful than we think. We can make changes in our lives that will improve our health and increase our chance of happiness. But people keep telling us that we can’t. Over the past fifty years or so, a myth has grown, telling us all that we are simply products of our environment, that we are powerless to change our lives. The story goes that we are shoved around by outside forces, things beyond our control. We wonder what can we do. The way we act, the people we

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