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    How to Sleep Well

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    How to Sleep Well In order to sleep well we should follow three reasons. First of all‚ don’t eat or drink a lot before bedtime. If you drink too much liquid before sleeping‚ you’ll wake up repeatedly in the night for trips to the bathroom or cause you to wake up repeatedly. Don’t eat spicy or fatty foods because they cause heartburn especially‚ don’t eat something that triggers serotonin‚ which makes you sleepy. Second‚ do and don’t exercise when you have free time. For example‚ if you have a sedentary

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    Importance of Meditation

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    What is meditation and what is it intended to accomplish? If you go to your doctor for stress related problems‚ she or he will likely tell you that perhaps the best treatment for stress is Meditation. So what is meditation? The word “meditation”‚ is derived from two Latin words: meditari (to think‚ to dwell upon‚ to exercise the mind) and mederi (to heal). Its Sanskrit derivation ’medha’ means wisdom. Meditation is a group of techniques that induce an altered state of focused attention and heightened

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    Lack of sleep affects school work This is a big problem for a lot of teenagers because they want to stay up doing things that they enjoy. For example playing video games‚ talking on the phone‚ watching tv‚ and many other things like these. I know it because I did this too. Lack of sleep can effect your work really bad because you loose your focus in class and you don’t want to listen to anything and pay less attention to what the teacher is saying. Also lack of sleep can affect your behavior

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    Meditation and Psychology

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    Abstract Meditation is a practice that is found in some form across religions and continents‚ it is a concept that has been around for ages. Meditation has many positive effects on its participants ranging from the emotion level through increased positive emotions‚ better emotional regulation‚ and better socioemotional adaptability‚ cognitive level by modifying our perception of pain and stress‚ and on the physiological level by altering our heart rate‚ altering our brain functioning‚ and actually

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    How Prison Overcrowding Affects State Budgets By: Clarissa Taylor JUST 6510/ JPS Planning & Budgeting April 18‚ 2015 This paper will discuss how state and federal budgets are affected by the overcrowding of prisons. I chose this topic mainly because I use to work for the Alabama Department of Corrections from 2002 to 2005 as a Correctional Officer I. During the time I was employed for the department‚ I witness a lot of overcrowding in Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Things had gotten

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    Does the # of sleep affect test grades? Hypothesis: The amount of sleep will affect test grades. Materials and Procedures The materials needed to conduct this experiment are: -A group of students -The same type of test -Time To start off this experiment‚ you must get a group of students and ask them individually the number of hours they slept. The number of hours they’ve slept will be the independent variable. Next‚ have the group of students take the

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    Inadequate quantity or quality of sleep‚ including voluntary or involuntary sleeplessness and circadian rhythm sleep disorders increases the chance that children and adolescents who attend school have a tendency to fall asleep or become sleepy while at school. It has been found that ‘chronic sleep loss affects many aspects of adolescents lives and that there are repercussions of unhealthy sleep habit.’ (Owens‚ J‚ 2013). Chronic sleep loss is very serious and affects school children because the pupils

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    Clinical Hypnosis Studies

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    Clinical Hypnosis Studies Addressing Aichmophobia Whether it’s donating blood‚ receiving a vaccine or receiving a thorough anesthetic‚ the process is difficult on almost anybody. And some unfortunate people are particularly affected by the unpleasant process of getting injections‚ some even going so far as to avoid donating blood or getting scheduled immunizations. Sometimes‚ it blossoms into a full blown phobia of needles. This particular phobia is known as aichmophobia and is described as an

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    Meditations

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    In the books titled Meditations by Marcus Aurelius‚ twelve different virtues are brought up and thoroughly described. In fact even a contemporary society could learn valuable lessons from any of the twelve virtues and apply them to present day to fix certain issues. For Aurelius loyalty to the principles of wisdom is the most important virtue. It is the fourth virtue he writes about and it may also be the most impactful virtue he discusses. Aurelius says “mankind are poor‚ transitory things; one

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    Meditation in Buddhism

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    Meditation in Buddhism Buddhists pursue meditation as a means to attain their goal of escaping suffering and the cycles of rebirth: the achievement of nirvana (Pali: nibbãna). The practice of meditation has been directly derived from Buddha’s own experiences and teachings as it is generally accepted that the Buddha himself reached enlightenment through meditation. Meditation can be contextualized as part of the Noble Eightfold Path‚ the fourth of the Buddha’s Four Nobel Truths‚ specifically in

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