An elderly man, around 85 yrs, suffers sleepless nights, nor does he sleep daytime. Remedial suggestions other than allopathy is invited. So a friend advised him: Am in same age frame as the above named person. No problem sleeping at all. 1. Try to live a normal life as much as possible. 2. During daytime keep busy. Go for long walks, with precautions such as comfortable footwear, umbrella or walking-stick, handkerchief to wipe perspiration, water to sip, money to buy miscellaneous items. 3. Talk to people -- neighbours, relatives, those visiting your temple, church, mosque. 4. Visit your local library, join your local club, read the books, newspapers, and magazines there, talk to fellow-members. 5. Send and receive e-mails to like-minded people. WMC is an excellent site. Read slowly what others write, think about it, and respond constructively, if you feel like it. 6. Cultivate good living habits. Eat well, take your medicine on time and regularly, if any. 7. Take up a non-stressful hobby. Gardening, doing minor repairs to where you stay, making your own breakfast, helping in ghe kitchen, and around the house. 8. Write your own auto-biography, stressing the positive experiences and thoughts and achievements you and your family and friends had, places visited, sights seen, food consumed, and your own reactions to all of them. 9. Take a whole-body oil-bath on Wednesdays and Saturdays, giving yourself a good massage. Use a fragrant gel and lukewarm water to wash off the oil, rub yourself down vigorously to stimulate the skin and blood-flow. 10. Dress comfortably. Rest in a good armchair. (Buy or make one if you do not already have one.) 11. Develop a daily routine, and stick to it. For example, getting up at dawn, toiletries done including bath, lighting lamp (or candle), recitation of prayers, reading a chapter of the "Good Book", breakfast, morning paper, leisurely morning walk, visiting shops, markets, malls, public places, hoke for rest and lunch, nap, light tea, out to library, club or place of worship, home forf dinner with family and friends, surfing Internet on the computer, or writing life-story, prayers again and more reading the "Good Book", and so to bed. 12. Always look on the pleasant and positive side of life, and DO NOT give in to depression, loneliness, feeling of helplessness, or negative thoughts and negative recollections. 13. Be happy and contented that you have reached your mid-eighties with your faculties intact. Not many have achieved that. Count your blessings. 14. If health and time permits, go out and do some social/community work to help those less fortunate than yourself. There are many, many such. For example, visit the local hospitals, prisons, schools, community centres, temples, churches, mosques, and see what you can do to help. 15. Exhaust yourself with good works towards others, so your sleeplessness dissipates, and eventually disappears. Good luck! S Narayanaswamy
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:28:22 +0000
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