Rest Exhibit a good night sleep with plenty of REM can be very valuable.

It is during this type of sleep that dreams occur. Everyone

Welcome to the Rest Exhibit. Do you know that dreams every night even if they don’t remember it. The lack
your heart beats 100,000 times per day? 80,000 liters of of REM sleep can be very upsetting and unpleasant.
blood are pumped through 26 million kilometers of blood Individuals deprived of this dream sleep become less well
vessels every day. You take 20,000 breaths and move major integrated. They become confused, suspicious, and
muscles 750 times. Your operate 14 billion brain cells. All of irritable. They become anxious, insecure, and irritable. They
this activity requires rest to restore and rebuild the cells and have increased appetite with a definite weight gain.
tissues which are being used. Did you know that rest is even This is where a serious problem can develop.
more important to life than food? Ten days of total sleep Americans take approximately 500 tons of sleeping pills
deprivation will result in death although one can live a every year. But these pills cause a fragmented sleep with
month or more before they die of starvation. loss of most of the REM sleep. So you can see how the use
Sleep is an important aspect of rest, for it is during of these medications greatly worsen the quality of one’s
sleep that many of the body’s functions are recharged. But life.
Rest includes more than sleep. It is also relaxation, learning But why do so many people have trouble falling
how to change one’s pace, to add or delete activities which asleep at night? What can you do if you have trouble falling
enable one’s body and mind to be better equipped to deal asleep or trouble staying asleep? I will share with you some
with the necessary duties of each day. things that really work. Things that will increase the quality
If a person works at a desk job, doing largely of your life, and give you good sound sleep without drugs.
mental work eight hours a day, five or six days a week, doing The most important thing you can do is to get
physical types of activities such as gardening or walking in good physical exercise every day. Many people are mentally
the evening and on weekends would be of great benefit to exhausted at the end of the day but the physical body has
his health. But if a person is doing heavy manual labor all not been exercised and is not ready to fall asleep. If these
week long, the relaxation that would best benefit him people would do some hard physical exercise they would
would be more sedentary, mental types of activities, as find that the muscles would be ready to relax and they
reading. would easily fall into sound deep sleep at night.
The daily, 24 hour rhythms of the body are well Regularity in sleeping as well as eating and other
documented, Recently research studies in America done in activities is very helpful. And don’t go to bed with a full
a controlled underground environment documented that stomach! Eat that light supper at least 2 hours before
humans also have a seven day rhythm. Throughout history bedtime. Never use alcohol or other drugs as an aid to
different countries and cultures have tried to change the sleep. Long term they will always disrupt normal sleep even
seven day week. Most notable was during the French if they make you unconscious for a short period of time. If
Revolution when they attempted to mandate a ten day you drink coffee, tea or Pepsi you should stop. Caffeine will
week. All attempts have ended in complete chaos. Studies always make sleep more difficult. End your day peacefully.
done in American factories during the war first attempted Avoid excitement, television, or arguments before going to
to extend the work week with dismal failure. They then bed. Instead take some time to relax and focus your mind
found that they could increase production more than 15% on some of God’s promises and in this prayerful state of
above normal by actually shortening the work week to 48 mind you will find it easy to have a good rest.
hours with required weekends off. England passed a law By the way, do you when your heart gets its rest?
that required one day of rest each week and 2 weeks It beats about once every second. But it only takes about a
vacation each year. But really they were only rediscovering tenth of a second for the heart to contract so it spends the
a great truth which was given to humans when this world other 9 tenths of every second resting. Perhaps you have
was created. God gave to us the Sabbath. Six days are for some questions. .now you would like to ask about rest?
work but the seventh day is the Sabbath, in it you are not to
do any work.
Probably one of the most fascinating areas of
study has to do with the daily sleep patterns of people.
There are two types of sleep you go through every night.
Physical sleep (NREM) and mental (REM) sleep. You first go
through four stages of gradually deepening physical sleep.
This is when your body is physically restored. During the
deepest stages of this sleep it is very difficult wake a person.
It is during this stage that people snore, that children bed
wet, and some individuals sleep walk.
The mental or REM type of sleep follows about 90
minutes of the physical type of sleep. It is during this REM
sleep that mind is restored. It is essential for learning and
memory. When you have an important decision or problem,