In the sleep laboratory it is shown that REM sleep occupies about 25 per cent of the time spent in sleep. When a person takes sleeping pills, REM sleep is reduced to 5 or 10 per cent of sleep time, but if the pills are continued for many days the REM component gradually returns to [...]

Those of us who have difficulty with our speech can use the relaxing mental exercises to gain greater fluency. Those who stutter, and who are tense when speaking, can be helped because the practice of the exercises lowers the general level of anxiety. Tension is reduced and the words come more easily.

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