Struggling with your snooze? Meditation could be the answer. If you’re struggling with your sleep there are many things you can try to improve your rest. Regular exercise (but not late at night), a bedroom free of tech and other distractions, and ditching the late-afternoon coffees are all common strategies. One thing you might not yet have tried, though, is meditation. Coach spoke to Niraj Shah, founder of Meditation: Unlocked, for more information on how meditation can help you get some valuable shuteye. How does meditation help sleep? There have been a couple of studies in this area. One in particular from the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre looked at meditation and the production of melatonin, the sleep hormone. What’s...
The Power of Trees The Power of Trees This year our goal is to help American Forests plant 100,000 trees in US National and Urban Forests. Forests are crucial for the air we breathe and the water we drink, and give shelter to the wildlife we love. That’s why we are making a lasting commitment to their protection. Each tree we plant will absorb 48 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually. That means our 100,000 will remove 4,800,000 pounds of CO2 every year. One mature tree can also filter as much as 36,500 gallons of drinking water per year, enough to purify the water supply for millions of people. Just one square kilometer of forest may be home...
About 288 years ago the first tree huggers started something they could not have realized would still exist today. They were Bishnois (a branch of Hinduism) men and women who died trying to protect trees in their village. There was a need for raw material to build a palace, but these pioneering tree huggers clung to the trees as they died along with the trees. Fortunately, their efforts were not in vain. Their courageous action led to a royal decree prohibiting the cutting of trees in any Bishnoi village. Today those villages are a wooded wonderland in the middle of what would otherwise be nothing but desert. As the concept spread across India, reforms in forestry were implemented, preserving the...
What does the color violet mean in dreams? Violet means many different things in dreams such as mystic union with someone or something, magical state where wishes are fulfilled, intimate or erotic feeling and even heightened intuition. Whether you realize it or not, colors affect your mood, attitude, state of mind, and even your stress levels. Color influence your emotions, so it’s no surprise that choosing the right colors for your Sleep Oasis® will likely affect how well you sleep. The dramatic, inspiring “Color of the Year for 2018” is Ultra Violet. Artistic and inventive, Ultra Violet is soothing and creative, symbolizing the depths of the universe. Island Slumber invites you to slip into a colorful world that you...
