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Six Steps to Supersleep 19 June 2007 None of us can live without it. We need it every day. And most of us are deficient in it. It's not a vitamin or a mineral - it's sleep. An alarming 47 per cent of people have difficulty falling to sleep or staying asleep throughout the night, but many more are simply not getting enough for optimal health. Before the electric light bulb extended our days, most people slept for up to ten hours a night. The figure now hovers around seven and continues to fall. Not only are we sleeping less in the 21st century because we've learnt how to extend our daytime, but we also sleep less to get more done. Yet research clearly shows that it's a rare person who can survive on a great deal less than seven or eight hours' kip a night. One of the great mysteries is why we need sleep at all. Without it, even for a night, the body shows clear signs of stress - mood and concentration go, defences drop, vital nutrients zinc and magnesium levels fall, vitamin C is used up at an alarming rate. Sleep both rejuvenates the body and the mind. During the first three hours of sleep, the body goes into rapid repair mode. This is one of the reasons why, if you are injured or sick, nothing is better than a good night's sleep. The Importance of Dreaming After a couple of hours, we enter the dream state sleep, known as rapid eye movement, or REM, Stage 1. REM sleep normally occurs 90 minutes after the onset of sleep, but if we are sleep deprived it may occur within 30 minutes. Dreaming occurs during REM sleep and most of us have four or more REM periods per night, even though many people have difficulty remembering the dreams that occur in them. As well as providing physical rest, sleep may provide the chance to make a 'back-up tape' of the day's events for our large computer, the brain. While Westerners pay little heed to dreams, one African tribe believe 'real life' is lived in dreams and daytime is the illusion. The Bolivian philo

Organic Growth: Gallery & Competition Here, you can display your creations. Your creative expression in whatever format you consider appropriate for you. We are developing an online gallery, a gallery of art, literature, poetry, video, fashion, design, sculpture, music and more. So, we are looking for your art or expression, themed upon the world today and the options we have for adapting both our own behaviour and adjusting circumstances around us to lighten the load we place upon our home planet. I am proposing to create an annual competition called 'Love Thy Organic', which is a theme around which your work should be based. We too are contributing to the gallery with our functional eco sculptures, which will be hosted as part of The Organic Growth pages as RE-EXIST, a themed collection of items, 'Re-Creating the Existing', and I am hoping to both encourage fellow artists to contribute to the site and also to be a platform which will enable green and eco-artists to show and compare their work. We will not be acting as editors of your creations, but wish to help you promote your message, be it the message of cleaning rivers, air travel, ethical banking and any other ethical and ecological issues. Whilst the main theme is 'Love thy Organic', other themes are also considered appropriate, 'The Law of Deflection', 'Spiritual Organic', and 'Re-Creating the Existing', which are all inspired by our work here at The Organic Home. I am preparing and annual competition, based upon these ideas, with a prize of £1000.00 for the winner. To enable this, I am asking you, the creative, to forward your work to me in any category, and I can then build the online gallery to display and promote your eco-art, and eventually have your work judged, and hopefully sold! Art has the power to provoke, stimulate, excite and frighten - as well as the ability to sooth, calm and amuse, so - use the power of your chosen medium to make your point… o

Organic Growth: Gallery & Competition Here, you can display your creations. Your creative expression in whatever format you consider appropriate for you. We are developing an online gallery, a gallery of art, literature, poetry, video, fashion, design, sculpture, music and more. So, we are looking for your art or expression, themed upon the world today and the options we have for adapting both our own behaviour and adjusting circumstances around us to lighten the load we place upon our home planet. I am proposing to create an annual competition called 'Love Thy Organic', which is a theme around which your work should be based. We too are contributing to the gallery with our functional eco sculptures, which will be hosted as part of The Organic Growth pages as RE-EXIST, a themed collection of items, 'Re-Creating the Existing', and I am hoping to both encourage fellow artists to contribute to the site and also to be a platform which will enable green and eco-artists to show and compare their work. We will not be acting as editors of your creations, but wish to help you promote your message, be it the message of cleaning rivers, air travel, ethical banking and any other ethical and ecological issues. Whilst the main theme is 'Love thy Organic', other themes are also considered appropriate, 'The Law of Deflection', 'Spiritual Organic', and 'Re-Creating the Existing', which are all inspired by our work here at The Organic Home. I am preparing and annual competition, based upon these ideas, with a prize of £1000.00 for the winner. To enable this, I am asking you, the creative, to forward your work to me in any category, and I can then build the online gallery to display and promote your eco-art, and eventually have your work judged, and hopefully sold! Art has the power to provoke, stimulate, excite and frighten - as well as the ability to sooth, calm and amuse, so - use the power of your chosen medium to make your point… o

The Eco Village Project will have sustainable living as its core focus and will provide training and skills development in the areas of Green Building (Housing/Shelter), Food Production (Permaculture principles), Alternative Energy Technologies, Water Sanitation, Waste Management and Environmental Consciousness. This will be done through hands on, practical learning and experience, in a real life sustainable community.