Twitter summary: BRB while I give myself the opportunity to sleep for 8 hours every single night.
The good: I’ve been on a brain kick lately as I want to improve my brain health and train my brain (click here for the review on Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher, creator of Ziva Meditation). I exercise to improve my body so why shouldn’t I improve my brain and mental capabilities? Factor in my fascination with dreams (more often than not, I can’t remember them) and my love for sleep, this book is right up my alley and it needs to be on yours too! Walker balances scientific fact and layman language wonderfully to detail what is sleep, how we sleep, why we sleep and how to sleep.
The bad The opportunity: I humbly say that I sleep relatively well and for about 7.5 hours a night but I still hope to improve my quality of sleep.
Favourite aspect of the book: Even though I recommend you read this book, here is a sneak peak that summarizes Walker’s ultimate goal, an excerpt from the Conclusion:
“This silent sleep loss epidemic is the greatest public health challenge we face in the twenty-first century in developed nations. If we wish to avoid the suffocating noose of sleep neglect, the premature death it inflicts and the sickening health it invites, a radical shift in our personal, cultural, professional and societal appreciation of sleep must occur.”
Recommendation: YES — everyone needs to read this book because we all need sleep! I am definitely going to reread again.
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