chris_esler2000
Flamingos Do Sleep
What keeps you awake at night?
Do you worry? Is it about the economy, climate change, rising unemployment, are Rachel and Finn right together? Is it anxiety? Was that someone breaking in, did the stairs creak, could it be a burglar, a psycho, a zombie? Does noise stop you from sleeping; neighbours, raccoons, buses, the sounds of drunks coming out of pubs, crying babies, or worst of all… snores? Is it a lumpy mattress? Is it cold feet? Or is it the nightly stress of worrying that whatever you do, you’re going to wake up at 3:30a.m. feel your blood pressure rise, your muscles tense, and know that, yet again, you’re doomed to lie awake until daybreak?
Sleep is precious.
Think of flamingos. Research suggests that flamingos sleep standing up on one leg. It’s believed that they can make half their body sleep, then swap legs, and rest the other half. Come on now, shouldn’t it be so much easier for you? Prepare your bed, find earplugs, a perfect pillow, your favourite blankie. Relax, breathe deep and slow. Release your tension. Imagine the flamingos swaying back and forth, picture their subtle shilly-shally. Breathe. Be like this flamingo, beautiful and asleep.
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