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	<title>Restful Insomnia</title>
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	<description>Renew during sleepless nights... and greet the mornings refreshed</description>
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		<title>Releasing the energy of anger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up angry but not at anything. Just that deeply irritating body anger, like irritation in a traffic jam waiting for someone to try and cut me off, damn it.
At first I ignored the feeling and tried to go back to sleep. I used all my current RI tricks of darkness, counting breaths, rolling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Daylight savings time&#8211;split the difference</title>
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Daylight savings/standard/confusion time drives me nuts. Despite setting my clocks ahead during the day (which helps a tiny bit), my body and time orientation is all skewed for days. I heard there are more car accidents the Monday after the switch than usual, so drive carefully.
My idea: We should spring ahead one half-hour and stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Insomnia without suffering</title>
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I had insomnia last night. I woke with a brain full of worries and sadness and lists and tension. I added the stress of no sleep to my list of woes.
I knew all the Restful Insomnia(TM) techniques&#8211;I developed them. Didn&#8217;t matter. I was so tense, and sleep seemed so far away, I couldn&#8217;t connect with trust that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Restful Insomnia in Seattle Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In November, I went to a photo-shoot at Hotel 1000 in Seattle. Upscale but not hoity and a great photographer. Now, that photo and an article about Restful Insomnia is in January Seattle Magazine. What fun.
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		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Returning to the pen&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; more like returning to the keyboard. What was my last post? Looks like last year, right at this time. [Jodi sends me a note that my math is wrong--it's been two years.]
So much in 2009: A new full-time job in health communications, publication of A Better Brain at Any Age, writing my Restful Insomnia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=86</link>
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		<title>A Better Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, my manuscript is done. The book is retitled: A Better Brain for Any Age for publication by Conari in the fall (2008). Lots of research, some writing angst&#8211;defining emotions and creativity was a thrill.
Here&#8217;s what the book will contain:

* Short Tour of the Brain
* Not All in Your Head: The Body-Mind
* Eating for Brilliance
* [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love to meditate. It took me only 30 years to get here.
I started with TM (Transcendental Meditation) in&#8230; Cleveland, dating Andy, probably 1974. After the instruction, I was high as a kite, happy for the first time at my work, ready for a lifetime of joy. Then life returned&#8211;so disappointing. I kept meditating hoping that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>The Big Book of Brain Boosters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where have I been? I&#8217;ve been researching and querying experts on that plastic glob under your skull: the brain. Experts who know about

Brain exercises 
Food
Exercise
Creativity
Emotional intelligence
Types of intelligence
Energy medicine
Meditation. 

I&#8217;m writing the The Big Book of Brain Boosters: How to Keep Your Brain Alive&#8211;Well into the Next Decade (Conari, 2008). The book will let you know the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=76</link>
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		<title>In and Out</title>
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What a healing time. Sadness, friendship, sand castles, in and out with the waves.
We went to Port Townsend&#8211;Mary, Sallie, Nancy and me&#8211;picked up Jesse and found Nora&#8217;s house. We remembered Diane&#8217;s laugh, her life changes, our loss. We walked to North Beach and, inspired by Mary, made a sand castle of our memories of Diane. Then the tide came and took it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Gratitude is a Verb</title>
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We think of Gratitude as a Thank You note.
Dear Higher Power, 
Thank you for the nice sunset, my car, my kids. 
Signed,
Me
That&#8217;s a useful start, but we&#8217;re missing something. We&#8217;re missing the experience of being alive.
When Gratitude is a Verb, appreciation for being alive.

Thank you for the experience of seeing the sunset. 
Thank you for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://restfulinsomnia.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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