Insomnia: Wake up to Ten Simple Solutions

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January/February 1997
By Terry Willard 
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However, the six cycles take 25.5 hours, which doesn’t fit neatly into the twenty-four-hour day. Still, some people feel that this extended day works best, and they make the odd readjustment here and there to fit in with society. They say that using the fifteen-minute breaks to catnap is key; they go quickly into a sound sleep and awaken feeling refreshed. Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, and Flor­ence Nightingale, all very productive people, were known to have slept in four-hour cycles.

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Terry Willard is president of the Canadian Association of Herbal Practitioners and a member of the Canadian Federal Government Expert Advisory Council on Herbs and Botanical Preparations. He is director of the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing in Calgary, Alberta, and president of Coastal Mountain College of Healing Arts in Vancouver, British Columbia. He lives on an ­organic herb farm on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains.

Additional reading

Foster, Steven. Herbs for Your Health. Loveland, Colorado: Interweave Press, 1996.
Willard, Terry. Herbs and their Clinical Uses. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Wild Rose College of Natural Healing Ltd., 1996.

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