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Open eyes o’clock

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Sleep is a process of surrendering the body, emotions and the mind to temporarily shut down. There has to be a balance between these three elements, body, emotions and mind, for the organism to fall asleep. Don’t expect the body to perform a proper good night sleep 💤 if: Your body is restless, in pain, ill or stressed. Emotions are playing out on their own accord: too much excitement about events that happened or about to happen, upsets, anger, guilt, resentment, remorse, sorrow. Your mind refuses to rest and trains of thought keep on appearing inside your head, with ‘to do’ lists, deadlines, financial problems, etc. It will change the body and emotions with activity, making it difficult to settle. Stress and emotional issues such as anxiety and depression cause half of all insomnia cases. But your day time habits, sleep routine, and physical health may also play a role. Try to identify all possible causes of your insomnia: Are you under a lot of stress? Are you depressed or feel

Simple until you try it

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Attending a business meeting, a family dinner or the simplest of tasks (shopping) where everyone around the table or your surroundings was whispering, covering their mouths, and mumbling their words, now wearing masks Picture the frustration you would experience at the end of the day when everyone left with their notes, leftover cakes but you were left struggling to figure out what the discussion was even about. For deaf individuals who read lips, this situation plays itself out daily in both personal and professional settings. My question is can you read my lips 💋? Probably not, so don't underestimate our daily struggles. A task that is not simple to perform... This alone powerfully describes my limitations and others especially now during the COVID19 experience as a person who is deaf. I would like to remind hearing people reading this just how much the majority of people rely on their sense of hearing to communicate daily, with that taken away you are left with lip-reading wh