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This is the third of a special

series of articles on the phono. MENTAL TENSION

menon of Sleep. The author

discussos overy aspect of the mattor, and tells you how you can derive maximum bonafit from your rest hours.

By D. COMPTON-JAMES

The first step towards mental relaxation is physical relaxation. A person whose mind is occupied with other matters cannot pay proper attention to the task of securing physicai relaxation, and if the atten- tion can be switched towards physical relaxation, worries are automa tically shelved to some extent.

It is possible that mind and muscle are more closely related than we suspect. It has been scientifically established that a person who thinks far into the night automatically tenses various groups of muscles. Whenever the word "muscle" is used, you must not confine your interpretation to big muscles such as the biceps. For instance, some people clench their teeth when they are thinking, This involves the contraction of a set of muscles, but it is such a minor contraction that many people never notice it.

One school of neurologists has advanced the tentative theory that man thinks with his muscles. There is no need to follow up this theory, but one of the arguments advanced in its favour is the proved point that when the muscles are ex- tremely relaxed, thinking and emotion tend to dwindle and

cense.

Thought cannot be turned on and off like the electric light or the radio set, but the human mind docs, neverthe less,

"thought- possess &

switch." Unfortunately, few people know how to operate it. The technique can only be learned by a very gradual re- duction in the intensity of thought and emotion.

This process is never very perfect or clear-cut. Mental relaxation has to be learned step by step over a period, and for every person the modus operandi is slightly different. Some fortunate people can turn off the flow of thought almost at will; TE is a natural gift with them. Others have to learn the trick of it by patient endeavour.

One very important point should be borne in mind by everybody who experience dif- ficulty in manipulating their It is folly "thought-switch."

to go to bed bofore you are "ready."

Some people neck to make provision for possible loss of sleep by going to bed early. This is a mistake unless and until the individual can be reasonably certain of going to sleep at once. If he cannot, then going to bed early will only teach him the bad habit of lying awake at night-a habit more easily acquired than cured.

However, this must not be regarded as an argument in favour of staying up late. An early bedtime is always desir- able, but poor-sleepers need to learn the trick of getting off to sleep at once before they can take advantage of it. You cannot make up for loss of sleep before the loss has been suffered, but you can do so afterwards by going to bed early on the following night.

for emergency use only, and when Indulged in, it should. Be taken in bed. Armchair dozes are never antisfactory.

There

that indications are dreaming is a sign of the existence of mental tension. When the mind has been very active just prior to going to sleep, nightmare may re- sult. This process of cause and effect LA commonly observed in children, but adults often forget that they are subject to exactly the

natural soni

laws

If their expression and operation are not dramatic. What would quite produce nightmares in children might merely cause bad dreams for adults. Excosalve dreaming should therefore be regarded as an indies- tion that all is mental state.

all is not well with the

even

There is plenty of evidence that imagination diminishes as relaxu- tion progresses. Dreamless or re- the latively dreamless sleep is mere restful type, although con- alderable recuperation is secured by people who dream almost con- tinuously,

The individual who sleeps dreamlessly can obtain full recuperation in about six hours. The dreamer needs eight or nine hours of sleep, . There is no doubt that famous "short sleepers" like Napoleon slept heavily and dreamlessly, and were able to do so because of nearly perfect mental relaxation.

Identified noises. There are two anti-sleep factors here. The sense of hearing gradually fades out as. one falls asleep. It follows that anyone who is hearing noises can-. not possibly expect to go to sleep. The other factor is that these noises produce a state of mental alertness until they can be identi- fled.

Ear-plugs may or may not be useful. Much depends on the tem- perument of the wearer. To people of the phlegmatic type whose only concern is to minimise the physical effect of night noises, car-plugs But if they are are very useful. worn by people of the nervous type, these devices merely intensify their mental tension because the wearers are constantly straining their cars to identify the new less- distinguishable sounds.

Ear-plugs have a special value. after the subject has gone to sleep in that they diminish sounds that might otherwise wake the subject or at least make him sleep less soundly.

It is very easy to say that It is folly to bother about these noises of the night, but no phobia can be cured by the simple application of logic. In Britain, of the

the moment, night noises have a special signi- ficance and affect millions

of

people, but it must be remembered that even in ordinary times there are always a number of people who allow themselves to be bothered by nolses nt night,

n

The mental tension behind this attention to night naises is phobla. In England now it is the dramatic ant Important fear of death; at other times it may mere- ly be a fear of burglars. Whatever

the cause of the phobia, It is personal problem which can only be solved by Individuals them- selves.

War does not alter any of the great human problems. It merely throws them into sharper relief. English people are fast learning that sooner This hour

or later they wili

Mental activity should be barred In the hour preceding bedtime, and no should any work of strongly repetitive character. should be spent in some form of relaxation congenial to the in- dividual. In this the first im-

why portant step towards mental re- laxation is taken before the person goes to bed and the period of lying awako is thereby reduced.

Mental (ension at night may proceed from unfamiliar or

Un-

Nazi Pilot

have to overcome the fear of death before they can throw of the mental tension that prevents them from going to steep. Everyone must face this problem sooner or later. The Nazi air raids are nerely advancing its incidence for civilians who have hitherto led a sheltered and secure life.

Gets Two

Pints of Jewish Blood

This brings me to the general question of after- noon naps. I do not recom- mend them. The siesta is simply a protective device for hot countries; it is de- signed to restrict physical- activity during the heat of the day. The siesta does not necessarily involve go

"Doctors gave lifm a blood trans- Ing to sleep; It is merely an

fusion, settled him nicely in bed, and abstention from labour.

then left him with these words: noon nap will certainly An afternoon nap

"Now, my lad, you have two pinta militate against the night-sleeping

in after baling out during a dog of good Jewish blood in you, We afficloney of people who normally sleep badly. In any case the lime fight. He was considerably shot up hope it will improve your manners!!

pent in afternoon sleep is largely arrogance and little of the give and

but showed a "super-abundance of The writer suggested that it wasted because the rest gained

***** should become a standard practice to give Jewish blood to all Cormán light in character and possesses lako spirit little recuperativa value, The "He spoke excellent English and prisoners of war who need, blood afternoon napahould be reserved all the while he was being stitched transfusions.

Captured German aviators in need of blood transfu- sions will get the necessary corpuscles from Jewish donors, if British medicos 'follow the suggestion of an English magazine writer, says a United Press, message from London.

Suggesting the mothod as and dressed he kept up a running one way of treating "arrogant are of verbal abuse against the German air personnel," the doctors and nurses.

related publication "Aeroplane,” the following Incident:

10

Germany's tough eggs, was brought A Nazi pilot, evidently one of

It takes

FUNNY

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By Abner Dean

an artist

JAY

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A Day With Britain's Foreign Legion

"By A SPECIAL Correspondenti

In a quiet part of the South-West Coast, where nearby lowns and villages have yet to hear the air-raid siren, the "British Foreign Legion" is receiving recruits almost daily.

"British Foreign Legion" was the description given to me by a Birmingham private as he drove an Army lorry through winding lanes and across fields to downland high above the cliffs where the men, spick and span in new battle dress, enger- ly awaited a double helping of hot roast beef we were bringing for the mid-day meal.

We were with a training com- pany of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, consisting of men of every nationality-Russians, ITungarians, Scandinavians, Poles, Lithuanians, Greeks, even Italiens, but mostly German and Austrian refugees.

Enjoy Hard Wojk

They are aliens and "enemy allens," who have chosen to fight for Britain. Many have sacrificed- good jobs, some have volunteered, satisfied the Intelligence Branch of the Army and, have been allowed ta leave internment camps to join this vital link in the rapidly grow ing British Army,

To this camp pour in men with an astonishing variety of occupa❤ tions-lawyers, doctors, actors, musicians, scientists, ranking high In their professions, now ready to work with their hands building bridges, railways, working on' am- munition dumps, puying the way for the armed forces.

They are taught drill and die-

cipline and then after three or four weeks go in, self-contained geant-major.

companies under a British ser-

One Complaint

bylines

The human race is a'collection

of the most marvellous, ingenious and engaging 'Idiots that ever got possession of a noble planet-Wal- ter Lippmann,

*

But let us not forget that the world's greatest friend is yourself and likewise in yourself you may And the world's strongest fog, be- cause self-confidence and self- reliance will give you all-conquer- ing strength whereas self-abandon- ment will lead to destruction-- Chiang Kai-shek.

No Austrian could be a Nazi twenty-four hours a day; it takes too much energy--Mrs, Jolin Gun- ther.

Complete Independence for the Philippines now probably, would mean servitude. They are unabla to „stand. alone amidst the violent forces now loosed in the Far East. If the United States Lag descends the result will be a bloody struggle for control-Paul V. McNutt..

I asked a group of 40, aller if Nazi Airmen Attack

they had any, complaints," and al- most apologetically they naked me to put one forward.

Rescuers

London, Sept. 9. "They were anxious that all

When three caval' drifters tried to restrictions should be lifted on

save four German alımen' who had their families now they have join- ed the Army. One man said: baled out from a German bomber "Many of the men are perturbed over the Channel they were machine- because their wives wild probably sunned by other German aircraft not be allowed to leave London and forced to give up the attempt.

One of our motor torpedo-boots aven in these raids. It seems un- graceful to grumble after we have was also minchine-gunned while go- boon, given our freedom, but we ing to the rescue of crows of other understood when we foined the German aircraft, and four of its In the water were left to their fate. Army that the restrictions on our crew alightly wounded. The airmen familles would be lifted."..

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