Wayanad devastation death toll crosses 300. Awesome response. All corners, all kinds. A foreboding series of climate disasters, events coming. If we do not act now, urgently, in unison, collectively.
Olympics: Manu Bhaker misses her third medal by a whisker.
India-Sri Lanka tie their ODI match.
Anshuman Gaekwad, 71, the great wall prior to Rahul Dravid, succumbs to blood cancer.
Kamala Harris is the official POTUS nominee from Democrats.
The Supreme Court confirms sub-classification of SCs and STs, under Article 14, for reservations can be done. It also added: ‘creamy layer’ principle may also be applied, for ensuring the benefits reaching truly disadvantaged; limited only to the first generation. A new reality. There is a need to gather accurate and comprehensive socio-economic data of various subgroups. Can the upcoming census do this? AP and Telangana want to go ahead with sub-classification. Centre may wait and watch. It appears the three-decade movement initiated by Manda Krishna Madiga is bearing fruit.
Like breathing, thirst, and hunger, sleep is biologically hardwired into us. Nobody has to teach us. When we play with these hardwired rhythms intensely, we ruin the body’s natural abilities. The duration, quality suffer. More than 50% struggle to get deep, good sleep. Insomnia, sleep issues. Can we avoid sleep delaying, lightening blue light? Can we be on top of stress, anxiety? Can our diets be healthy? Can we have at least 150 minutes of intense exercise, work a week? Can we sleep within 30 minutes of deciding to sleep? Can we sleep at least six hours a day at night? Sleep regulates energy storage; repairs body, mind, heart, and soul; reorganizes memory, learning. We need to allow this to happen.
Sleep deficit affects every part of the body – skin, heart, digestion, cognition, emotions, diabetes, walk et al. Academics, work, productivity, results, living et al may get affected. How do we end this deficit? This becomes more and more important as you start moving from 40 to 50 and beyond. 3-5 cycles of NREM stage 1,2,3 coupled with REM sleep, every day. Ways of us are not the same. Some go early to bed and rise early, some late. Critical is maintaining a rhythm, pattern, and duration. Catching up in the weekend, or some other day may not always work. We may end up waking up feeling tired day-in and day-out. Tiredness catches up leading to microsleep episodes.
We know we cannot go very far without taking up new jobs, assignments, joining new organizations, projects, programmes, and networks, moving to new locations, building new contacts, putting ourselves into new situations, possibilities. But, most of us do not have the will many a time; lack abilities; do not get spaces, support. More critically, 80% of us lack skills, abilities – introducing ourselves; remembering people – names, faces, and links; asking questions – right, relevant, and useful.
Can we try, practice, repeat, and rehearse? Can we do homework, prepare? Can we write it down? Can we map links? Can we be comfortable asking, seeking help? Can we put aside the feeling ‘how can I say – ‘I do not know; I am not able to figure out’? Can we put aside our egos? Can we be thankful? Can we be in sync with N? in our breath, thirst, hunger, sleep, life, living, livelihood, leading, learning, love?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, pulling up one another in practice, in flow. In N? aalambanayoga for 7L.
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