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10 Dos and Don’ts of Sleeping

Hey, everyone!

I’ve heard that many of you have been asking about how to get a better, more restful night of sleep. Stress not! Here’s a list of tips that could help improve the quality of your sleep. Before I begin, I think it is important for me to provide a couple of disclaimers. First, I’m not a doctor. I’m just a college student who’s done some research and has experienced the occasional restless night. I strongly recommend setting up a consultation with a doctor if you have a severe case of insomnia or other mental illness that can affect getting a good night’s rest. Second, keep in mind that each person is different. Finding the best way to maintain goodsleep hygiene will probably require trying out several strategies before getting some satisfaction, so get creative and be patient!

Now, onto the list!

1. Do be consistent in your sleep schedule.

The amount of sleep needed in a night depends on the individual. Regardless, you need keep up with your schedule to ensure you get enough sleep. Make adjustments to your schedule as needed and …

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PTSD

This is something I see get thrown around a lot and is rarely used correctly. 

Summarized DSM-V Criteria

A. Definition of trauma;

The person has experience, witnessed, or been confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of oneself or others.

the persons response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.

B. Re-experiencing; traumatic experience is persistently re-experienced at least one way:

recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the events, including images, thoughts, or perceptions

recurrent distressing dreams of the event

acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations and dissociative flashback episodes

intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.

physiologic reactivity upon exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an expect of the traumatic event.

C. Avoidance/Numbing; persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness indicated by at least three of:

efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma.

efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections

inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.

markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities

feeling of detachment or estrangement from others.

restricted range of affect (ex; unable to have loving feelings) sense of a foreshortened future (ex; does not expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span.)

D. Hyper-Arousal; persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma) as indicated by at least two of the following;

difficulty falling or staying asleep

irritability or outbursts of anger

difficulty concentrating

hyper-vigilance

exaggerated startle response.

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The Best Articles in Psychology and Self Improvement

The Emotion Machine has 500+ articles on many topics related to psychology and self improvement. Here are the most popular articles we’ve published over the past 8 years.

Each section is separated into categories by: happiness, emotions, thinking, habits, goals, relationships, creativity, meditation, and society.

Check them out and get started on your self improvement journey!

Happiness

3 Sources of Happiness that Aren’t Tied to People or Stuff

Why It’s Worth It to Pay the Costs of Being Yourself

How Perfectionism Destroys Happiness

Reframing Your Dark Side: Embracing Your Shadow Is Key to Genuine Mental Health

5 Attitudes Wired in Happy and Successful Brains

Radical Acceptance of Life’s Never-Ending Bullshit

Happy With Less: Trying Living With One Less Desire

Unconscious Positivity: 5 Ways to Ingrain Happiness Into Your Way of Life

Emotions

The 4 Fundamental Pillars of Emotional Intelligence

How to Communicate Your Feelings Without Becoming an Emotional Manipulator

The Complete Guide to Stress

How to Create Psychological Distance Between You and Your Past

How to Completely Forgive Yourself

5 Signs You’re a Slave to Your Emotions

Question Your Feelings

7 Ways to Connect More With Your Emotional Self

How We Use Music to Manage Our Stress and Emotions

Thinking

Accepting Your Bias

How to Be a Skeptical Thinker About Facts and Statistics You Find on the Internet

Be Careful of What You Let Enter Your Mind

The Healthy Challenge of Explaining Your Beliefs

3 Types of Exaggerated Thinking That Create Unnecessary Drama

Rewriting the Story of Your Life: A Process of Self-Exploration Through Writing

Metaphors We Live By: How Metaphors Frame Our Experiences in Different Ways

The 20 Most Common Logical Fallacies We Fall Victim to Everyday

The Pragmatic Thinker: Keeping Our Beliefs Grounded in What Matters

The “Five Whys” Exercise: How to Recalibrate Yourself During Periods of Turbulence

Habits

Identify Your Habit Loops

The Power of Nudges: Insights on How to Influence Human Behavior

Creating Boundaries Between You and Your Bad Habits

The Power of a Checklist: How to Stay Disciplined and Avoid Stupid Mistakes

Organized Home, Organized Mind: Why a Tidying Marathon Can Change Your Life

Make a Complete List of Your Daily Routine

How to Maximize Your Willpower

Why You Should Believe in Hard Work Over Genes

The “Everything Counts” Mindset for Exercise

7 Simple Principles Behind a Good Night’s Sleep

Relationships

How to Become a Master of Nonverbal Communication

How to Defuse Heated Arguments Before They Spiral Out of Control

3 Reasons to Give People the Benefit of the Doubt

5 Improvisation Exercises for Improving Your Communication Skills

Good Manners in the 21st Century (And Why It’s So Hard to Be Nice in Today’s World)

9 Tips on How to Be Honest With Someone Without Being Negative

Body Language Is More Revealing Than Words: How to Read People More Clearly

How to Learn From Guilt and Improve Your Relationships

The “Over-Sharing” Epidemic: How the Internet Makes Us Devalue Our Private Lives

How to Build Thick Skin and Stop Being So Sensitive

Goals

Start Living More as Your Future Self

What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way

How to Overcome Your Fear of Success

How to Overcome Awkward Phases of Self Improvement

What Do You Live For? A 5 Minute Exercise to Discover Your Most Important Values

How to Stop Being Jealous of Other People’s Success

Systems vs. Goals: Why Sustainability Is More Important Than Temporary Success

Grit and the Need for Achievement

Creativity

How to Build a Creative Mind That Will Never Run Out of New Ideas

3 Paths Revolutionary Thinkers Take Before They Arrive at Insights

The Psychology Behind What Makes Ideas Popular

The 5 Key Stages of the Creative Process

How to Improve Your Intuition

Mnemonics: The Forgotten Art of Memory

Practice Improvisation to Become a Faster and More Creative Thinker

How to Develop Your Own Creativity in a World of Conformity

Curiosity and the Advantages of a Hungry Mind

Meditation

Breathing Meditation

3 Common Problems When First Starting Meditation

Urge Surfing: How to Overcome Addictive Behaviors

Open Mind Meditation

The Wisdom of Body Awareness

Beginner’s Mind: How to Look at Old Problems in New Ways

STOP Meditation: Daily Injections of Mindfulness

Naked Meditation

Society and Culture

How Culture Influences Our Minds in Profound Ways We Don’t Even Realize

Effective Altruism vs. Feel Good Altruism: How to Make a Bigger Difference in the World

The Origin of Us: Campfires As The Bedrock of Human Civilization

The “Taste Buds” That Shape Our Morality: Why We Have Different Beliefs in Politics, Religion, and Morality

Circles of Empathy: Why We Care About People To Different Degrees

What Great Apes Teach Us About Emotions, Morality, and Civilization

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19 Incredibly Useful Websites You’ll Wish You Knew Earlier

We tend to think of learning a new skill or “going back to school” as something you’d do when looking to change careers, or to upgrade within your current one.

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Friendships In Ancient India Through Subhashits

आतुरे व्यसने प्राप्ते दुर्भिक्षे शत्रु संकटे।

राजद्वारे श्वशाने च यस्तिष्ठति स वान्धवः।।

The real friend is the one who stays in the court and in the crematorium when he is sick, in trouble, in famine, when he is endangered by the enemy.

विवादो धनसम्बन्धो याचनं चातिभाषणम्।

आदानामग्रतः स्थानं मैत्रीभङ्गस्य हेतवः।।

Quarrels, financial relations, taking loans, incessant chatting and desire for unwanted competitions are the reasons for destroyed friendships.

आढ् यतो वापि दरिद्रो वा दुःखित सुखितोऽपिवा ।

निर्दोषश्च सदोषश्च व्यस्यः परमा गतिः ॥

Rich or poor, grieving or joyful, innocent or bastard; A friend is the biggest supporter of the man.

चन्दनं शीतलं लोके ,चन्दनादपि चन्द्रमाः |

चन्द्रचन्दनयोर्मध्ये शीतला साधुसंगतिः ||

Chandan (sandalwood) has the most cooling properties in this world; The moon, however, is more cooler than chandan. In actuality, it is the company of good friends that is the most soothing.

महाजनस्य संसर्गः कस्य नोन्नतिकारकः।

पद्मपत्रस्थितं वारि धत्ते मुक्ताफलश्रियम्॥

Just like a drop of water that falls on a lotus gains the status of a pearl, company of good friends elevates the value of a person.

आपत्काले तु संप्राप्ते यन्मित्रं मित्रमेव तत् |

वृद्धिकाले तु संप्राप्ते दुर्जनोSपि सुहृद्भवेत् ||

A friend in need is a friend indeed. Even an evil person can befriend anyone during prosperous times but it takes a real friend to honor the friendship during difficult times.

सर्वथा सुकरं मित्रं दुष्करं परिपालनम् l

अनित्यत्वात्तु चित्तानां मतिरल्पेऽपि भिद्यते ll

It's pretty easy to earn friendships but difficult to keep them. The human mind is transient and even some petty conflicts can be the reason to end the friendships.

न सुहृद्यो विपन्नार्था दिनमभ्युपपद्यते।

स बन्धुर्योअपनीतेषु सहाय्यायोपकल्पते॥

A good friend helps a friend in fatality and brings back the friend on the right path (if he has strayed away from the path of goodness).

गुणवान् व परजनः स्वजनो निर्गुणोऽपि वा।

निर्गुणः स्वजनः श्रेयान् यः परः पर एव सः॥

A loved one without merit is better than a stranger with merits.