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    Insomnia, neurasthenia and fatigue

    IN the previous chapter 1 discussed emotional stress ailments. In this one we are considering the physical outcomes of stress, worry, and constant fatigue. Perhaps the the bulk common complaint of this modern age, along with constipation, which is discussed in the following chapter, is insomnia. It is the cause of more widespread misery than one could possibly imagine. There are a lot ways to combat insomnia but a lot people, far too many, rely on injurious and habit-forming sleeping drugs which may induce an unnatural sleep but which do not, and cannot, cure the trouble at the source. Indeed a lot people who have relied on them for years find that they are wholly not able to obtain a night’s sleep without them. Yes, insomnia is one of the scourges of our time but Yoga has a technique with it, nature’s gentle and harmless way.
    The Yoga cure for insomnia and its dangerous resulting nervous exhaustion, is the natural one based on toning and relaxing the nerves, taking in more oxygen, and remaining immobile with the body inverted.
    But first things first. What about the bed on which you sleep? Do you put up with just anything? Is it just a wooden frame, a mattress, and some pillows, sheets and blankets, or is it a supremely comfortable haven to which you could retire in blissful ease at the end of the day? No, I am not being fanciful. That bed on which you sleep may have more to do with your insomnia than you suspect. So let us consider it for a moment.
    Have you sometimes suspected that your mattress was too soft and often wake up in the morning in a deep hollow with your mattress making ‘water-wings’ on either side of you? It is time, I fear, to think about replacing it with a firmer one.
    Expensive? Perhaps, but after all you spend just about a third of your life in bed and if that third is plagued with insomnia due to an over-soft or worn out mattress is it not wise to consider spending a few dollars in order to improve your health, your spirits and your normal well-being? Cheap at the price I would say.
    And what about those mounds of bunchy pillows? Do these offenders grace your bed too? Send those packing with that soft mattress. It is vital in sleep that your spine should be held as naturally as possible. If you're lying in the hollow of a feather mattress with your head propped up on a mound of pillows, your poor spine is held in a highly unnatural position so if you do succeed in getting to sleep, which is often unlikely, you would be sure to wake up with morning backache, a stiff neck, a feeling of not having slept at all, and possibly a headache to contribute to the normal confusion. If you suffer from any form of persistent backache one of the finest remedies I know, without doing another thing, is to buy a difficult mattress. After you obtain used to sleeping on it you would never look a feather mattress in the face again. Sleep with as few pillows as possible, one small, firmly packed one is adequate for the bulk people’s needs. Why make your poor neck work difficult while you're sleeping? What did it do to deserve that kind of punishment?
    Next your clothing. It would seem unnecessary to mention this, but I am certain that far too a lot people wear too much clothing when they go to bed. Jumpers, cardigans, bed-jackets and socks are piled on over pyjamas and nighties, and heads are tied up in all kinds of scarves. But why? In winter why not one warm, cosy nighty or a pair of pyjamas, high necked and long sleeved, and in summer a wisp of nylon is all you need. Let your body b-r-e-a-t-h-e while you sleep. If you're cold contribute more blankets but do not, please, obstruct yourself to death.
    It is often said that for the bulk people the best sleep is before midnight. I do not necessarily agree with this and would gladly trade four hours of really deep natural sleep for eight hours of tossing, fitful dozing which for a lot people passes for sleep. You can easily work out for yourself how a lot hours of sleep you need in order to work at your maximum efficiency the next day. And do not make the average mistake of imagining you need more sleep than you actually do. Eight hours is what the bulk people take to mean a wonderful night’s sleep but a lot people need only five or six, others need nine or ten. So make certainly that you're not one of the former, as you may be getting your five or six hours of wonderful sleep that you need and tossing about for the other two or three thinking that you suffer from insomnia. Do watch yourself carefully before you decide whether you need a cure for insomnia at all.
    I find it restful to keep a book on my bedside table. No thrillers or ghost stories please. We are dealing with insomnia in this chapter and we cannot have you afraid to go to sleep being persuaded that someone, or worst still SOMETHING has come to ‘get you’. There is some controversy about plants and flowers being left in bedrooms overnight. My advice is to eradicate them if you can, for the carbon dioxide they give off at night will not aid you one bit in this battle against your insomnia. Do sleep in a well-ventilated room with at least one window open, and if possible the door as well. A stuffy, overheated bedroom causes more headaches and insomnia than can be estimated.
    Finally, place your bed so that you sleep with your head to the north and your feet to the south, or if this is Night shift can be totally fine for the body and mind. It is not prizeful for you if you couldnot adjust to it, and still have the urge to sleep at night. impossible, sleep with your head to the south and your feet to the north. What you must avoid, you see, is sleeping across, instead of parallel to, the magnetic force lines of the earth. If again you accuse me of being fanciful, I can only tell you that I have known a lot people who have cured their insomnia, and its resulting stress ailments, simply by altering the position of their bed so that they lie parallel to the magnetic force lines of the earth. If you're skeptical (and you're a incessant insomniac) why not try it? You may be agreeably surprised.
    Having disposed of the questions of how, when, and where you sleep, what you wear and what you lie on, I will now express you some Yoga exercises which will aid you if you make careful note of all I have just said. Yoga will aid you if you meet it half-way. Unlike some of the chapters in this book in which I have described Yoga asanas or postures which call for patient practice, all the exercises in this chapter are very simple to do, with the possible exception of THE SHOULDERSTAND or Sar-vangasana. This may be a little hard for my older readers so let us try this one first.
    Sit down on the floor with your spine straight and your
    legs stretched before you, ankles together. Roll backwards until
    your head touches the floor and your legs swing over your head.
    Supporting your back with your two hands on either side
    of your spine, raise your legs to the vertical so that your toes are
    pointing towards the ceiling and your body is resting on the
    back of your head, the nape of your neck, and your shoulders.
    Press your chin against your chest in the chin lock. I have
    demonstrated the SHOULDERSTAND in figure 6.
    Keep your body as straight as you could and hold yourself as still as possible. Resist the pronness to move your legs about in the air or to let your body sag at the waist. Close your eyes and breathe as deeply as you can. In the Shoulderstand breathing cannot be too deep but it should be as regular as your restricted lungs allow.
    At first maintain the SHOULDERSTAND for only a few seconds but as you steadily become used to this inverted posture it can be held comfortably for various minutes. I suggest that you hold it for as long as you have the time but no more than ten to fifteen minutes. The major advantage of this valuable fundamental Yoga pose is that by holding the body inverted, in poised stillness, even for a few minutes, the thyroid glands are affected and so produce a powerful effect on the entire organism. Also the blood flows to the head by its own weight instead of it having to be pumped upwards by the heart so it not only gives the heart a relief from its ceaseless work but it also brings a flood of rich blood to the brain and so counteracts nervous fatigue, exhaustion, and other outcomes of insomnia. But the advantages of the SHOULDERSTAND do not end there. Because it strengthens and tones the lower organs it's especially recommended for women after child-birth and those who suffer from menstrual pains.
    A word of warning. If you suffer from any disorder of the

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