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Health Ministries Department
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
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Celebrating rest
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Fatigue: A health problem
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Tired people become inefficient
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Involuntary sleep
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Sleep deprivation
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Decision making from the frontal lobe
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Sleep debt
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Sleep debt can alter metabolic state
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Sleep deprivation leads to
decreased performance
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How much sleep do we need?
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Students often study most of the night
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Two major types of sleep:
• Non-rapid eye movement sleep
• Rapid eye movement sleep
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Rapid-eye-movement sleep
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Both types of sleep are necessary
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Steps to getting to sleep
• Learn to value sleep
• Establish a regular bedtime
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Exercise every day
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• Establish regular time for rising and retiring
• Use a comfortable bed in quiet bedroom
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• Eat lightly in evening
• Avoid exciting or depressing TV…soon
before bedtime
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See your personal
physician if you
suspect a sleep
disorder
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Put your trust in God
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Winston Churchill
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Weekly and annual rest
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Rest instituted by God
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LIFE APPLICATION
QUESTIONS
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How many times in
the last three days
have I fallen asleep
involuntarily?
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How many hours of
nightly sleep have I
had during that same
time?
Do I need to reassess
my sleeping habits?
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Am I staying up too late
at night?
What delays my
preparation for bed?
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Do I need to exercise more,
or perhaps earlier in the day?
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Have I had too big a meal
in the evening, or eaten too late?
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Am I worrying
about something
that is keeping me
awake?
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Am I choosing to
watch too much
TV or play too
many games?
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Do I need to see
my physician about
a sleep disorder,
such as sleep
apnea?
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A husband and
wife worked late
and then went
out to dinner with
friends. The meal
was delicious,
but the couple
ate too much.
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Neither slept well
when they eventually
got to bed. The next
evening they arrived
home late again and
then watched a latenight TV show.
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The next morning the
couple had a heated
argument about who
should fetch the dry
cleaning. Why would
they argue about such
an inconsequential
thing?
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Were they thinking
clearly? How can I
prevent something
like that from
happening to me?
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How many of the following
symptoms have I
observed in myself lately?
• lower productivity
• short attention span
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• inability to solve
complex problems,
think clearly, or
remember quickly
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How do I demonstrate
that I value my sleep?
What choices do I
have to make in order
to get adequate and
restful sleep?
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Should I choose to get
up at the same time on
weekends as I do during
the week so that I
establish good-habit
patterns?
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What arrangements in
my bedroom do I have
to change to foster
better sleep?
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What arrangements in
my bedroom do I have
to change to foster
better sleep?
How can I make a
decided choice to put
my trust in God and
leave my burdens with
Him?
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In what ways do I show
that I value the rest that
the Sabbath offers?
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In what ways do I show
that I value the rest that
the Sabbath offers?
Do I use the Sabbath
hours to catch up on my
sleep debt from a week
of bad choices?
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Or do I enjoy the same
type of rest that God
took after Creation—
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Or do I enjoy the same
type of rest that God
took after Creation—
a rest from work in
order to spend time in
growing my
relationships with God,
family, and community?
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Do I use the full
vacation time
allotted to me?
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How can I best use
this time in a
balanced way to
adequately
rejuvenate physically,
mentally, emotionally,
and spiritually?
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How can I plan
more purposefully
to gain the benefits
I need to offset the
stresses and
deficiencies I
experience during
the rest of the year?
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