You looked at morning and you walked through an afternoon from your 
brain’s perspective. Now, while the sun is setting, you’ll see your brain still rising to every challenge you set. Walk from your brain’s perspective… through another evening...and see what I mean.... Ok...it's just after dinner...
7 PM – Why not reflect on your day by listing one event to the left of a paper and jot down your responses to the right. How might you do things differently, if you were to add a new intelligence into the mix? For instance, if the phone rang too much and interrupted you, could you have asked others to answer it? If you met a conflict from a fellow worker, could you have told a goofy joke about yourself to lighten up the situation.
8 PM – Did you know you can increase your natural chemicals for fun and well-being and you can decrease panic or fear hormones. Simply try out another path to something you do… it might be as simple as sitting in a different chair to relax… or reading a paper from another city… or writing a letter to encourage a community leader.
9 PM -- In this part of your day your brain does best to laugh at the Jay Leno show, relax with a good book, enjoy friends, or prepare for the coming day. Listen to inspirational music or Romantic music from Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky or Schumann. I like to play Debussy, Faure and Ravel’s impressionistic music in the evening, and you too will find this music puts you in touch with your inner beliefs and desires, and then discuss a book you just read with your partner.
Music in the evening adds peace and grounds you in the moment, and so it evokes quiet and affirming images in your mind. Laughter increases your ability to enjoy life and makes you feel better because the simple act of laughing at a silly thing you did, or at a joke you heard releases health-inducing enzymes into your brain.
10 PM – You’ll often sleep better and dream about positive images if you imagine actual physical movements before you sleep. Visualize a pro skiing down the highest peak you’ve seen, or skaters on their final run at the Olympics, and you will sleep with fewer nightmares. The reason you dream is that you allow your brain to drop into zero management control as you sleep. Brain scans show no activity in the frontal areas of the brain, where you plan your day and enjoy deeper thoughts about life. Dreams are simply uncontrolled images, which bounce off each other and perceptions which activate without your help, during REM sleep.
Researchers sometimes liken the dream state to be similar in ways to the mentally ill state, where you have poor control of memories and images. The difference of course is that dreams occupy only a brief and restorative mental state, and your mind will hand you back controls when you awaken, while mental illness prevents that control from happening at any time.
Want some exciting new insights to help your next day? Then, ask yourself a specific question about something you plan to do tomorrow. Expect your brain to search and find some new insight overnight, from it’s capacity to rewire and to teach you new approaches to success while you are in the slowest brain waves, where enlightenment often happens.
11 PM -- With over 200 sleep clinics in the it’s clear than many have problems when they try to sleep. To maximize the chances of restful sleep tonight, eat moderately, and avoid additives or fats before bedtime. Warm milk works wonders with the brain, and a little honey added gives it an even better taste. Make sure that glass of wine you had after dinner, metabolizes for at least one hour before you sleep and drink lots of water. Avoid caffeine in the evening, and exercise much earlier in the day, so that you are engaged in much less stimulating evening activities.
If you set the conditions correctly, your brain will decrease cortisol overnight and will release melatonin and increase growth hormones. Sleep deprivation is not a good idea, since the brain needs sleep to function well the next day. To ensure you get a good night’s sleep try to get at least 7 and 1/2 hrs, and if you want to wake up with your brain ready to go, set your alarm to go off at the end of a 90 minute sleep cycle, rather than interrupt a complete cycle. Have a great day, and make sure you help your brain to do so too. Good night…
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