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...half hours over six weeks, showed no such problem. As Jacobs explains in his book Say Goodnight to Insomnia, CBT reintroduces insomnia experts' old tricks: get up at the same time every morning; use your bed for sleep only. But CBT also teaches relaxation techniques and helps patients unlearn sleep myths that contribute to anxiety. For example, don't worry about not getting a full eight hours - plenty of people get by on less. And there's no need to fret about doing badly on the job the next day; the truth, says Jacobs, is that insomniacs handle sleep deprivation...
...Goodnight to Insomnia (Henry Holt), CBT teaches tricks that insomnia experts have been recommending for years: get up at the same time every morning; use your bed for sleep only, not for reading or TV (sex is O.K., thank goodness). But CBT also teaches relaxation techniques and helps patients unlearn myths about sleep that contribute to anxiety. For example, don't tense up at the thought that you won't get a full eight hours--plenty of people get by on less. If you worry that lack of sleep is bad for your health, it's usually not true...
...course, in the case of Phi-Phenomenon, the music wasn’t exactly typical. With bands like the Laundryroom Squelchers and U Can Unlearn Guitar, the Phi-Phenomenon tour was a global collection of Noise. Note the capital N—this is a unique genre of sound...
...robust fear-and-flight response: an innate sense of the places and things that represent danger and a reflexive impulse to hightail it when one of them is encountered. When the species became top predator a few million years later, those early lessons were not easy to unlearn...
Keiko has shown signs of wanting to mate, which may push him to try to join a group with fertile females, but whether he will be accepted into a pod is impossible to predict. He also has to "unlearn" what he was taught during his long years in captivity. Bit by bit, he has had to be distanced from humans, and his trainers reluctantly have had to drop, albeit gradually, the affectionate fuss they made over him. Physically, too, Keiko has had to be conditioned for a different life. The easy parts were training him to swim faster...