HOW TO REST THE BRAIN by Annie Payson Call

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 17.

HOW TO REST THE BRAIN.

By Annie Payson Call

[Annie Payson Call, in Leslie's Monthly for March.]

THERE are five things to remember that help to rest an overtired brain: 1. A healthy indifference to wakefulness. 2. Concentration of the mind on simple things. 3. Relaxation of the body. 4. Gentle, rhythmic breathing of fresh air. 5. Regular nourishment. If we do not lose courage, but keep on steadily night after night, with a healthy persistence in remembering and practising these five things, we shall often find that what might have been a very long period of sleeplessness may be materially shortened, and that the sleep which follows the practise of the exercises is better, sounder, and more refreshing, than the sleep that came before. In many cases a long or short period of insomnia can be absolutely prevented by just these simple means.

Here is, perhaps, the place to say that all narcotics are, in such cases, absolutely pernicious.