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Beating Middle of the Night Stress by: Kate Hufstetler What do you do when you wake up in the middle of the night and cannot go back to sleep? Do you lie there tossing, stretch, panic, and feel your heart thumping? Do you notice your own shallow breathing? Do you try futilely to follow the random speeding thoughts that race through your mind? Back in 1991 I met an elderly man in the grocery store. He must have been around 87. Approaching my cart, he leaned in and said 'young lady would you like to know how to get to be my age?'¯ To which I answered 'sure'¯. He then went on to explain that since he had been my age and out on his own, never once did he ever spend a sleepless night in bed. If he should have trouble dosing off, or worse'”wake in the middle of the night, he simply & promptly got up out of bed and got busy about living. At 22 I was not in the habit of having trouble falling asleep. No'”in fact my trouble was choosing to go to sleep when there was always so much fun to get into. Now at '35
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