Sleep
A good night’s sleep.
The recommendations come from research conducted by Dr. Marty Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania.
Simple solution
Write a minimum of three things you were grateful for during the day.
Those things can be people who gave you suggestions or thanked you for something you did—someone who acknowledges your work. It can be finding something you lost. I found my sister’s earring in the garage, seems the cat relocated it.
Some days’ I’m grateful for my early am hot cup of tea or a good meditation I found on you tube.
Or the warmth of the covers on my bed.
Each sets my mind thinking positive thoughts for my brain as I sleep.
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