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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HEALTH BUILDING DURING SLEEP However discordant or troubled you have been during the day, do not go to sleep until you have restored your mental balance, until your faculties are poised and your mind serene. HYSIOLOGISTS tell us that the mental processes which are active on retiring, continue far into the night. These mental impressions on retiring, just before going to sleep, the thoughts that dominate the mind, continue to exercise influence long after we become unconscious. We are told, too, that wrinkles and other evidences of age are formed as readily during sleep as when awake, indicating that the way the mind is set when falling asleep has a powerful influence on the body. Many people cut off the best years of their lives by the continuation in their sleep of the wearing, tearing, rasping influences that have been operating upon them during the day. Thousands of business and professional men and women are so active during the day, live such strenuous, unnatural lives, that they cannot stop thinking after they retire, and sleep is driven away, or only induced after complete mental exhaustion. These people are so absorbed in the problems of their business or vocations that they do not know how to relax, to rest; so they lie down to sleep with all their cares, just as a tired camel lies down in the desert with its great burden still on its back. The result is that, instead of being benefited by refreshing, rejuvenating sleep, they get up in the morning weary, much older than when they retired; when they ought to get up full of vigor, with a great surplus of energy and bounding vitality; strong and ambitious for the day's work before them. The corroding, exhausting, discord-producing operations which are going on when they fall asleep and which continue int..