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At what hour in the day should you make love? Should you work? Should you play?
HENRY HARRIS TELLS YOU.
What is your recipe for the Per- fect Day?
Mine-I admit I rarely achieve it is this.
Glucose is the readiest source of energy we have in our bodies.
They have proved that a small snack-milk and cake are best. along with a five to fifteen minute Work Then a short interlude for break increases your working effi- rest and relaxation.
ciency tremendously..
Followed by play or love or socialSo that the English "tea" amusements or all three. Then sleep amuses. foreigners so much
so silly, after all
Most of us dwell too much in the past or in the future.
CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 1987
THERE'S A TIME
(And Place)
FOR
EVERYTHING!
sleep diff
For the perfect day, this grain tasy-thinking, and makes which of Beauty is to my mind something cult and unrefreshing.
isn't
that cannot be left out.
If you like and season permits, Most of us keep putting off Beauty leave the blinds up and let the dawn "Work hangover" is a common until, in the end, we lose the taste awaken you. It is a form of cowardice. It is disturber of the perfect day. for it. We lose the capacity for shirking life.
Many people leave their work so Why not make each day a gem of exhausted that they cannot enjoy perfect living in itself?
what is left of their day.
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But there are snags to this per- fect day. What are they? And how to tackle them? -
Here are two tips to eliminate it.
First. If there are important de- cisions that you cannot make bet fore you knock off, at any rate de- cide on something. :
But if you've had the right amount
enjoying it even when it comes to of refreshing sleep you should not
us.
In these days of free picture gal- leries and libraries, cheap print and radio, there is little excuse for any-
one
And now for sleep. Sleep should be enjoyed. Actively enjoyed.
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But you say: "How can I enjoy my sleep, if I'm unconscious all the a time?" I don't quite know-but you Ican. If you wake with the thought. "Oh! another day, then you haven't.
Your work! How do you plan it?
Decide on some definite time in Four hours of concentrated high- the very near future when you will pressure work a day is the most make that decision-preferably that anyone can do well
morning. And make a note of it.
Second. A Yogi relaxation trick that I find useful.
For most people, these peak hours are in the morning, say, from nine to one.
The afternoon should be left for routine and simpler tasks.
You can do it even in a bus..
If you awake thinking, "A new day!" If you have the feeling of Relax your body first. Let your
being born again into a new world, muscles flop especially those of the into a new day, then sleep has been So much for the peak hours. But face, mouth, eyes and hands. Close a joy. what about the "weak hours"-11 you eyes.
There are quite a number of peo- a.m. and 4 p.mɔ are critical periods? Then relax your mind by listening ple who consciously or unconscious-
ly-identify sleep with death It is then one begins to feel a passively to the rhythm of your own. little low and off colour. A short breathing, without trying to control They have a morbid dread of death. break and a snack will put that right.it. Or listen to the noises around To be unconscious for them is to
you, but not to the conversation. be dead.
Scientists have shown that the amount of glucose in the blood is low at these times.
Goethe says: “A day without some Beauty in it is a day lost."
DANCE In pleasant surroundings with
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NIGHTLY 9 PM TO 1 AM
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Invariably they are bad sleepers, who wake up exhausted.
need to be awakened.
Don't jump out of bed it's a shock to the circulation:
Throw the clothes aside. Stretch [your arms above you and your lega
to the foot of the bed.
Stretch, then relax two or three times.
Twist your trunk to one side and then to the other, just as you do when you enjoy a good vawn
And roll gently off the edge the bed.
Some of these hints should help to make your day less imperfect
DELICIOUS LAMB
PIES
To-day Elizabeth Craig has plan- ned a new kind of pie for you to
Only if, and when, they can ad- just themselves to the idea of death use up your cold lamb. as all adult people must eventually LINCOLN LAMB PIES learn to will sleep become part of the joy of life instead of a daily dread.
Falling asleep and awaking should, in themselves, be exquisite joys.
If you want to enjoy falling zsleep:-
b. flaky pastry, 1 teaspoon minced parsley, 1 cup lamb gravy, mashed potatoes, 2 cups cold minced lamb, 1/2 tablespoon Worcester sauce, 1 teaspoon minced onion, salt and pepper to taste.
Cover inverted tartlet tins with thin flaky crust. Prick well with a
Let your mind wander. Don't try to think of nothing. That is a con scious effort, just what you don't fork
want.
oven,
Bake in a moderately hot Think of anything pleasant. The 375deg. F., for about a quarter of riches you would like to squander. an hour. Stand for a moment The beautiful things you would like
Ito see.
Remove from tins.
two.
The enemies whose faces you would like to bash in.
Go.primitive in your thought short daydream
In
Stir parsley, sauce and gravy into the lamb. Add onion, and salt and pepper to taste. Haet in a sauce pan
Psychologists will tell you that the Fill pastry cases with the mind thinks in two ways.
fture
There is reality thinking, or logical thinking, which reaches its acme in the morning peak hours.
And there is phantasy-thinking or day-dream-thinking which begins to play a greater part in your leisure evening thoughts and reaches its acme in your dreams.
~That is why day-dreaming is natural preparation for sleep
dreams
Pipe mashed potato on top in rings until filling is covered. Brown lightly in oven.
Enough for six persons.
potatoes
and
the mixed to taste with and milk, or dripping
land salt and pepper
piping
That is why high-pressure in the evening
bs the rhythm betwe reality
work
daily! If liked, they can be simply spread phan on filling with a palette mife